For all the complaining about Vegas 5 on this forum, what's it all about? Several people have insinuated Vegas 5 hasn't stepped up to the plate or has somehow failed to prove itself as a "professional" tool.
Ok, admittedly, I was dissapointend not to see nested timelines as a new feature. But I saw dozens of other NLE apps at NAB this year, and none of them held a candle to Vegas 5. Avid systems are stil selling for over $30,000 and they can't color correct and trim video clips without changing the "mode" of the application. Final Cut Pro users were shaking thier head in shame while watching the Vegas 5 demo at the Sony booth. Premiere Pro is still buggy and in bad need of the yet to be released 1.5 update.
In my opinion, the only other editing software on par with Vegas 5 was discreet fire* and smoke*. Note that discreet doesn't even differentiate between NLE and compositing apps anymore. They have completely integrated thier edit* NLE software into fire* and smoke* and have discontinuted edit* as an application that can be purchased seperately. This means you can't even buy a "pure" NLE application from discreet anymore. Instead, editing and compositing are all integrated into one unified environment for post production and finishing. I think this is a response to the increasingly blurred lines between editing and compositing for lots of media content creation.... especially television spots and music videos.
Vegas 5 was the only other application at NAB that was in this category. At the CineForm booth, I saw Vegas play 3 tracks of 1080p HD footage in realtime... with page curl transitions included. At the Sony booth, I saw Vegas play 25 tracks of composited DV footage in real-time (true 30fps). Try doing that in Final Cut or with an Avid.
These are clear demonstrations that Vegas can provide the performance and feature set otherwise available only on a $120,000 discreet system.
The only "consumer" or "prosumer" thing about Vegas is the price tag. Be thankful you have have the opportunity to get so much power for so little $$$.
-nate
Ok, admittedly, I was dissapointend not to see nested timelines as a new feature. But I saw dozens of other NLE apps at NAB this year, and none of them held a candle to Vegas 5. Avid systems are stil selling for over $30,000 and they can't color correct and trim video clips without changing the "mode" of the application. Final Cut Pro users were shaking thier head in shame while watching the Vegas 5 demo at the Sony booth. Premiere Pro is still buggy and in bad need of the yet to be released 1.5 update.
In my opinion, the only other editing software on par with Vegas 5 was discreet fire* and smoke*. Note that discreet doesn't even differentiate between NLE and compositing apps anymore. They have completely integrated thier edit* NLE software into fire* and smoke* and have discontinuted edit* as an application that can be purchased seperately. This means you can't even buy a "pure" NLE application from discreet anymore. Instead, editing and compositing are all integrated into one unified environment for post production and finishing. I think this is a response to the increasingly blurred lines between editing and compositing for lots of media content creation.... especially television spots and music videos.
Vegas 5 was the only other application at NAB that was in this category. At the CineForm booth, I saw Vegas play 3 tracks of 1080p HD footage in realtime... with page curl transitions included. At the Sony booth, I saw Vegas play 25 tracks of composited DV footage in real-time (true 30fps). Try doing that in Final Cut or with an Avid.
These are clear demonstrations that Vegas can provide the performance and feature set otherwise available only on a $120,000 discreet system.
The only "consumer" or "prosumer" thing about Vegas is the price tag. Be thankful you have have the opportunity to get so much power for so little $$$.
-nate