The "Showing SCS Some Love" thread.

Former user wrote on 1/25/2012, 3:21 PM
Fun AND serious at the same time.

Feel free to sign, bump, add or ammend the clauses. This is a positive crowd-sourced love-in for everyone at SCS, who work way to hard to get the kind of S&A they're taking in other threads.

I, whether professional or amateur...

...buy my SCS Vegas (and other products). (seems obvious, but...)

...love (or at least have an embarassing Bieber-like crush) SCS Vegas

...enjoy it because SCS' work makes my work easier and better

...view bugs and unintended issues as an opportunity to help SCS improve the tools, rather than howl, whine, kvetch, or moan.

...do my best to be diligent in reporting issues to customer support because it will help me and all other Vegas users (and potential users) improve the tool.

...do my best to help fellow users of Vegas when I can

...will try not to drool too much when a new version is announced, or have ridiculously high expectations that can never be met, when a patch is released.

...if I'm ever in Madison, I will buy coffee and Krispy Kremes (or take them all out to Culver's for a butter burger or frozen custard, their choice) for the entire SCS team.

Signed,
Me

Comments

vkmast wrote on 1/25/2012, 3:28 PM
+1, excluding the "if I'm ever in Madison" part ( for a touch of realism ) ;)
NicolSD wrote on 1/25/2012, 4:00 PM
Ditto! LOL
Editguy43 wrote on 1/25/2012, 4:18 PM
Not sure what "kvetch" means but count me in as well.

Also might add a pat on the back to Gary Rebholtz and his team for giving us all the great webinars on a regular basic.

Give me an S give me a C give me and S what does that spell........ A bunch of guys working really hard to make a product that we use and enjoy.....

To end, at least they are not like the ahem (fruit company) who totaly rewrite the software and then say this it what you will use like it or not, because we know editing better than all you editors out there.

11 may be a little buggy but it is still Vegas.

Long Live SCS and Vegas my friend.

Paul B
MUTTLEY wrote on 1/25/2012, 4:43 PM
lol, nicely done, add me to the list though I may have to borrow some money to fulfill the last bit, getting a Sony F3 tapped me =)

- Ray
Underground Planet

ushere wrote on 1/25/2012, 5:22 PM
+ 1 - only caveat is last point - wouldn't want to pull them away from bug chasing ;-)
John_Cline wrote on 1/25/2012, 5:44 PM
I'm happily getting work done in Vegas v11. I have no gripes with SCS.
Golfer wrote on 1/25/2012, 5:50 PM
John?.. Are you using 32 bit or 64?... I'm solid with vegas 11 32... But with build 521.. I'm ready to give 64 a go!.. Happy with vegas pro 11...
John_Cline wrote on 1/25/2012, 6:11 PM
I'm in Vegas-64 about 95% of the time and Vegas-32 on those occasions when I need to use a 32bit plugin.
Grazie wrote on 1/25/2012, 6:13 PM
I feel a Barry White, Luuuuve Moment coming all over me . . . . .

"You Are The First, My Last, My Everything . . . "

"You're the answer to all my dreams

Ah Barry, muchly missed...

Ah, Vegas . . . . . .

G



dxdy wrote on 1/25/2012, 6:34 PM
Vegas is so much easier to use than anything else for my work. I have been in software development, deployment and project management since 1965 (not counting unit record work in 1964, well, I guess it was still programming), and I appreciate this enormously complex software system. I don't get the kvetchers (I do know what it means, and it is in the same category as "schlep"), 11 x64 521 is solid for me, and that is six to eight hours a day.

Fred
Tom Pauncz wrote on 1/25/2012, 8:06 PM
I'm with you, Grazie! LOL!!
Tom
PeterWright wrote on 1/25/2012, 8:07 PM
Vegas, since you came into my life, I have not looked at another.

- What's that my dear? Who am I talking to? Em, just ... a friend ...
Duncan H wrote on 1/25/2012, 8:42 PM
This has motivated me to write a song about Vegas, I hope you like it. I think it might become quite popular...one day

Love me tender
Love me sweet
Never let me go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so

Just imagine if we could find a wickedly talented singer who wanted to wear Hawaiin shirts & make a movie or two - using Vegas 11 (& OFX etc) of course.
TheRhino wrote on 1/25/2012, 10:51 PM
I've been using Vegas for 10 years, since 3.0... Made lots of money & saved lots of money.

For instance, early-on I did not have to buy hardware cards to run Premiere, or a PowerMAC to run FCP, or a high-end AVID system, etc. Multiply this savings times the (5) workstations we utilize, and the overall savings over 10 years is HUGE. New Vegas releases have been offered for $150 or less and we were authoring Blu-rays & other HD formats much sooner than the competition...

Now that our shop is bringing in more commercial work we do also run FCP and CS5.5. However, Vegas has allowed us to beat-out the competition when clients need a fast turn-around and/or a more affordable package.

Our method of handling ANY new software releases is to wait about 6 months before we integrate it into our paid workflow. We test it out on an unused computer or separate boot drive, isolated from our current OS. We backup our OS drive religiously and have images going all the way back to a fresh Win 7 install without any driver updates or the SP1 update...

For instance, had we installed Vegas 11 & had major crashing, we could have been back & running with our old setup in under 10 minutes. This type of discipline is needed if you are truly a professional. Imagine taking only one camera to a wedding or major event. Image taking a new, UNTESTED camera... Treat your software installations like other aspects of the business - have a solid back plan procedure in place and contigency plans in place should something fail...

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

NickHope wrote on 1/26/2012, 12:24 AM
SCS/ForumAdmin, it was awesome when you responded to my color curves tangency bug report right here on the forum and got it fixed really quickly in the very next release. Thanks again!
VidMus wrote on 1/26/2012, 12:43 PM
The Vegas experience is like having a companion.

No matter how much one loves it there are times when one gets into a fight with it. Then one comes to this forum and says things one would normally never say about it.

After one finally calms down one realizes just how much one really loves Vegas.

I said some goofy things about Vegas when I was mad at it but I soon realized that the problems were in part the driver version I was using, system issues I have and a few bugs in Vegas. Most of the few bugs were fixed, my drivers are fine now and when I get more time the system issues will be solved.

A quick look at Adobe and seeing the ridiculous limitations of ONLY being able to put one type of video file type on the time line and all of the other silly limitations and restrictions then one loves Vegas that much more!

Eventually all issues will be worked out and Vegas and I will be happy companions again.

I am sure that in the future we will have more fights and arguments but the love will continue.

Now if I catch Vegas cheating on me… LOL!

Laurence wrote on 1/26/2012, 12:54 PM
I love Vegas. A year or so ago I emailed a request to become a beta tester. I never got an official answer back, but I do believe they granted my request.
paul_w wrote on 1/26/2012, 12:55 PM
Thats funny Laurence... made me chuckle :)

Paul.
larry-peter wrote on 1/26/2012, 1:34 PM
I had been using Vegas for audio since V2. Somewhere around V6 I had a client in my audio suite making some V.O. revisions and waiting for the video suite to become available to make some adjustments.

I said, "I can do those from here," and completed in about 2 minutes. Client: "Are you kidding me? You just edited my video from your audio workstation? He couldn't do it that fast in there."

And so we began the shift from 844/x to Vegas in our facility.

Love it when it does what it should. And although I complain when it doesn't - it usually does.
Former user wrote on 1/26/2012, 11:45 PM
I just finished most of a 2:30 project today. Vegas crashed once...when I was exiting it (it weirds me out when I do that). I'll post the link when I'm done with the video, but I have to tell you, VP11 build 521 was flawless on my work machine (as opposed to home).

Grazie...is it the summer heat that's getting to you? I love music, but don't quite yer day job. ;-)
Christian de Godzinsky wrote on 1/27/2012, 3:24 AM
Dear Vegas,

You are not my first love, but I fell in love with you at first sight. I grew to love you even more when I got to know your inner beauty. Even though we have been together a long time - since you were 6 - I still love you very much (as much as one can love a group of partially very well organized bits).

Over the years my love has faded because you have behaved irrationally and sometimes even treated me badly, even completely shut up on me. OK, I have given you new challenges but I thought that you were prepared, since you have also grown mentally over the years.

Probably you are now in your middle age crisis? I have admit that I have been looking around and flirting with others, but newer had a serious thought to leave you completely for someone else. Shouldn't be a crime to appreciate beauty when you see some? That is not unfaithfulness, according to my standards.

I would like us to continue to live happily together, because I know you so well, and would not like to start over from scratch with someone that I don't know. At this age it's hard to start a new affair.

You even know yourself that you need professional help, so please continue with your doctors and a shrinks, get some hormones, and maybe a small face-lift. If you manage to get yourself together (that I believe you will) then I promise we can age nicely and happily together.

Please remember - I have always been kind and loved you, despite all the troubles and gray hair you have caused me.

Your sincerely,

Christian

WIN10 Pro 64-bit | Version 1903 | OS build 18362.535 | Studio 16.1.2 | Vegas Pro 17 b387
CPU i9-7940C 14-core @4.4GHz | 64GB DDR4@XMP3600 | ASUS X299M1
GPU 2 x GTX1080Ti (2x11G GBDDR) | 442.19 nVidia driver | Intensity Pro 4K (BlackMagic)
4x Spyder calibrated monitors (1x4K, 1xUHD, 2xHD)
SSD 500GB system | 2x1TB HD | Internal 4x1TB HD's @RAID10 | Raid1 HDD array via 1Gb ethernet
Steinberg UR2 USB audio Interface (24bit/192kHz)
ShuttlePro2 controller

ushere wrote on 1/27/2012, 5:36 AM
beautifully put christian...
Radio Guy wrote on 1/27/2012, 11:48 AM
When you said....
wickedly talented singer who wanted to wear Hawaiin shirts & make a movie or two - using Vegas 11 (& OFX etc) of course....

Isn't that Spot?
lewist57 wrote on 1/27/2012, 7:09 PM
Working with video is more of a hobby for me than my livelyhood, so I am more tolerant of any problems with Vegas. I will say that I do develop engineering spreadsheets and software, and have a great respect for anyone that can produce a 'working' program, bug free or not (although I believe there is no bug free program in existence). Likewise ANY program that depends heavliy on the video subsystem, such as NLE, CAD or video games, should be commended for their work. Given the thousands of video cards with hundreds of GPU, and video drivers changing faster than some folks change their underwear, I could not conceive of producing a "one program works for everyone on every system", and would run away screaming if offered the chance to work on it.