V6 very nice compared to XP

JJKizak wrote on 4/20/2005, 12:43 PM

Patience. I just downloaded the customary 18 critical updates to make XP-SP1 compatible with the latest software. What will it be next week? Vegas has few problems compared to XP, and they have gazillions of smarts and money and programmers. I will cut the the Vegas people every break.

JJK

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p@mast3rs wrote on 4/20/2005, 12:59 PM

I wont. Writing code for an entire operating system is much more difficult and complex than writing code for a NLE. Theres so much more to developing an OS than GUIs etc...

Sony knew what their customers demanded and lead their customers to believe that their demands were about to be met. Charged them for those features and they arent working. Of course people will be upset with it when software is supposed to work when its released.

Exploits in an OS is much different than features not working in a program. OS's are attacked by hackers. Vegas is used by some for income. What do you think your customers would tell you if you delivered a finished product with un-corrected scenes? You'd lose business.

I am willing to wait and see what Sony comes up in its update. If its not fixed, Ill start looking into FCP5 Studio or just stay with V5 and Avid. As I said in another thread, the next update will tell the future about Vegas. If they fail to remedy all known problems, it will cost them a serious user base and future sales.

Jimco wrote on 4/21/2005, 6:37 PM

As a software developer, I can tell you that your expectations are simply not realistic. Every piece of software releases with a TON of KNOWN bugs that the developers decide they won't fix. That's the nature of software development.

I've used other NLEs. How do I describe Vegas? It just works.

Jim

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/21/2005, 7:26 PM

Bugs? I get no bugs with Vegas 6. :D Serious! So far, the ONLY problem I have is with the media manager crashing sometimes, but it looks like it's not the mananger, it a DirectX problem. When I have my audio device as the Direct Sound Mapper (for surround) every version of vegas has had problems: jkl don't work right & sometimes previewing audio causes a vegas crash.

But it's only with the DX audio option.

I'd say it mostly depends on the programmer and the priorities they have. Vegas 6 is complex. Complex = problems. If Vegas was kept as it was in, say V3 (simple) but they worked out ALL the kinks it would have almost no problems but then people would complain there's no new feature. Then they'd go out of business.

The excuse that Windows can have bugs because it's complex is true, but other OS's that are (were?) more complex/advanced have (had?) less bugs. I'd just say it's sloopyness & money oriented on MS's part. The only way they make money is by convincing people (or forcing by dropping support) to switch to the new version. There hasn't really been any new Windows features since 95, just prettier & support for newer stuff. Same notpad, sound recorder, volume control, display panel, etc. Want a good notepad? Buy word. Vegas doesn't work that way. We don't have to buy plugins, they are included. They know if a feature isn't needed people probley won't upgrade (i didn't). So they say "we haven't been able to duplicate bug X that people complain about, nobody has brought a system with that bug here, skip it & add feature Y. People want feature Y."