Abandoning Sony Vegas
I became very frustrated with using Sony Vegas Pro 8. My feelings, of course, may be because of my inexperience. But I had a lot of trouble with rendering more complex projects. If often crashed before it completed. And my green screen efforts didn’t do well when I added more layers.
My long-term goal is to make movies and I just didn’t feel like it was up to the job. I learned a lot. It was inexpensive and gave me a lot of basic tools. It has an easy-to-learn interface. Then I went to a seminar on CS4 at B&H Photo in New York City. That was an eye opener.
At NAB, Sony announced Vegas Pro 9. They touted the features in the new version. It sounded exciting. But when I went home, I found most of those features were already in Pro 8. There was no compelling reason to upgrade. Maybe they fixed the rendering problem, maybe they didn’t. I didn’t care.
– Rich Pulham
September 8th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
That’s too bad, but I do hope you find what you’re looking for w/ CS4. Most people don’t realize that a lot of what they want or need to do in AE can be done in Vegas w/o going to any outside toolset. Especially where text effects are concerned. I would never say that Vegas does everything that AE does of course, just that a lot of the Vegas compositing ability goes unused and unknown by Vegas owners.
Best of luck.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Vegas is a good program and much easier to learn than CS4. I originally purchased it because it has so many features built in to it.