Christian Filmmakers

I’ve got Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, Roxio Easy Media Creator and Windows Movie Maker. And I would highly recommend Sony Vegas for a great balance of price and features. Vegas has the ability to easily add text, effects, transitions, etc. where Premiere relies on you having AE to add video effects and presets. Roxio VideoWave has a very limited number of video layers and uses a LOT of your computers memory to run smoothly. And it is only a half-step above WMM.

Hope this helps,
Benjamin

Benjamin Curlee wrote:

I’ve got Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, Roxio Easy Media Creator and Windows Movie Maker. And I would highly recommend Sony Vegas for a great balance of price and features. Vegas has the ability to easily add text, effects, transitions, etc. where Premiere relies on you having AE to add video effects and presets. Roxio VideoWave has a very limited number of video layers and uses a LOT of your computers memory to run smoothly. And it is only a half-step above WMM.

Hope this helps,
Benjamin

Thanks a bunch for the input! ... I think I’m leaning toward Sony Vegas… from what y’all have said about it… and the reviews it got on Amazon are pretty impressive… not to mention I liked the trial version I had of it. AND I have respect for the Sony brand (my camera’s a Sony and I love it). I’ll have to look more into it and see what all they say it’s got. Video layers consist of a big part of my video-editing so that kinda’ knocks Roxio out, and it sounds like it’s comparable if not lesser than the program I already have, that’s good to know. Thanks!

I’ve never used Vegas (I upgraded from WMM to Premiere Pro and After Effects ), but I’ve heard a LOT of good things about it, so I’d definitely recommend checking it out.

Nathanael Brunner wrote:

I’ve never used Vegas (I upgraded from WMM to Premiere Pro and After Effects ), but I’ve heard a LOT of good things about it, so I’d definitely recommend checking it out.

Haha! That must have been a fun upgrade. I will definitely check out Vegas… it seems to be the bee’s knees from everything I’ve heard so far…

i’v used Vegas for quite a few years and love it all the way. can’t say how it conpares to other editing software because its the only one i’v used.

Besides Windows Movie Maker, you mean. 

Vegas all the way! 

Besides Windows Movie Maker, you mean. 

  Hehe… yes, besides that one. 

I’ve downloaded the Vegas 9 trial, and am currently attempting to crash it (I like to put my programs through boot camp first   ) I made a 2 minute clip with 3 overlay tracks, a music track, and all sorts of goofy effects, and am rendering it in 1080 HD… pretty much recreating the scenario that crashes my current program. I’m even multi-tasking while it renders… something I am terrified to do with my Corel program… so far it remains uncrashable.

But I’m curious to hear from those that have tried it true, no crashing problems with Vegas? I assume not since y’all seem to love it… but also… are you running it on a super computer?

I’m running an AMD Athlon 3.01GHZ 64 x2 dual core processor with 4 gigs of RAM…. Nvidia 8800GT video card… and with my current program (Corel VS x2), anything more than 1 overlay track that’s longer than 2 minutes makes everything go kapoot if I try to render it in any HD format. That doesn’t seem right, and I’m partial to my computer, so I blame it on the program…

i’m running a Toshiba Satellite pro intel(R) core(TM)2 Duo CPU t6670 @ 2.20GHz 1.18 GHz 2.87 GB of RAM

its never crashed for me and i use vegas for feature length projects.

Oh wow cool… the more I hear, the better Vegas sounds. I still haven’t succeeded in crashing the trial version either. It’s taking a bit to find my way around (I know they make those little things called manuals, but was never a big fan of those) but everything seems pretty straight forward.