Davinci Resolve Guy Tries Vegas Pro 20 (It Keeps Getting BETTER!)

Vegas Pro 20 might just be the best version of Vegas yet!

Over the past few years the Vegas Creative Software team has been developing Vegas Pro to be a top choice for people in the content creator space. In this Vegas Pro 20 review, I'm going to show you just how far they've come towards that goal, and just how far away they are from achieving it.

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Table of Contents
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00:00 Intro
00:30 Disclosure (NOT SPONSORED)
01:06 Opening Up Vegas Pro
01:59 Importing Footage into Vegas Pro
02:35 Basic Editing in Vegas Pro 20
05:36 Color Grading
06:42 Audio Editing in Vegas 20
08:28 VFX in Vegas Pro
09:29 Bonus Features of Vegas Pro 20
11:29 Vegas 20 Pricing
12:51 Who is Vegas Pro for?
13:58 Final Thoughts on Vegas Pro 20
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[AdamSupremeWisdom]

I never use the trimmer. I throw all clips on the timeline and chop it up there.

[DuroSamples]

Cutting in Vegas is a Dream... All stems have faders and you can go to crop - fx - etc parameters right from them....
Using it for over 20+ years. Right now trying to learn Premier Pro and it's hell!
No faders on video or audio stems... 😢

The fact that Vegas works like a DAW is what I love about it since I use DAWs since 1994

[picabocarecordingstudio]

Vegas is great for musicians - for people who already work in a DAW, because the workflow and logic of how the program is organized is very similar. I work in Cubase and I learned Vegas very quickly.

[Spiggle.]

I've used Vegas on and off for years, i tried Resolve for a little bit and i do not find the interface anywhere near as easy and straightforward as Vegas, literally the only thing that's annoyed me with Vegas is the stability problems that others have complained about that pop up now and again. Too bad there's no Vegas style layout for Resolve. Guess I'll be sticking with Vegas though.

[Makedwork]

Years later and I still want to buy everything you review. You are so good at what you do. Someone, give this guy an emmy.

[JetDVScripts]

I'm glad to see you mentioned the layout and preferences can be modified to work with your workflow of using the trimmer. That's why the preferences are there - so you can set it up for your workflow and I can set it up for mine. Personally, I never use the trimmer. I just drop all the clips I want on the timeline and then trim the events from there. Whatever works best is the way the preferences should be set. And, honestly, I turn off the "Open last project" setting as one of the first settings I change!

Those default audio effects have been there as far back as I can remember (and I started on Vegas Video 2 shortly before Vegas Video 3 came out). Those effects are definitely functional but are not the most current of effects available. Fortunately, once again, you can change the defaults as desired but I've found that even these older default ones do most of what I need done anyway. Then I add in newer ones for any desired fine-tuning.

VEGAS Post (with VEGAS Effects and VEGAS Image) can also be purchased non-subscription. Edit, Pro, and Post are all available as Subscription OR Perpetual. Just change the option from "Annual Subscription" using the drop down arrow on the web page you presented and choose "New License" instead if you want it to never expire. But you will lose the ability to update after a length of time (so far, when the next version number has been released) and won't have access to the "subscription only" features.

Now the Hub downloads and text to speech/speech to text definitely do require the subscription version.

[photogenic]

You don't have to use the trimmer at all (Unless that's what you did on another program (e.g. Final cut, premier).
Vegas has a better method where you to do everything on the time line itself.. without that middle Trimmer step.
So really, Vegas is better than any other in making it work the fastest way that you feel comfortable with. I do all the edit on the time line, cut, strech, trim, overlap just by pulling one over the other,
or even make it Fade Automatically as you drag each clip onto the time line. It easier to do than write about it :-) ... Just learn by watching 10 second clips on Youtube about anything Vegas.

[patronza]

You can purchase the pertpetual license for a few hundred dollars. Don't need to be locked into a subscription version.

[kernel_data_inpage_error]

What made Vegas so infamous was the performance, starting with vegas 11 there were introduced many improvements, but also glitches that totally overshadowed them. GPU accelerated render was so borked that if it (ever) worked it would decrease rendering time, only to crash mid-render and wasting the time saved, so CPU-only rendering was the best bet. Sliding the preview back and forth locked the program and the audio track settings were ocasionally ignored, Sony Creative Software pretty much neglected Vegas. The first release under the Magix brand was LIGHT YEARS from the previous Sony one (i could use intel QuickSync on a cpu as old as a 3rd gen core i7) and the RAM usage was almost half, ive seen vegas 12 crash the entire OS on 24 GB of RAM, Resolve never was my cup of tea, and after countless tutorials it still doesn't please me

[choppergirl]

You know what I hate about Vegas the most?
When you Render, click the Customize Template button, and at the bottom, click the Project tab. There is a setting of Video quality to render out as, and by default it's set to "Project Settings". Well my Project Settings has always been Preview on my Preview monitor because i was workin on an old chuggy FX8350.

So for 5 years I've been rendering out my final videos in Preview mode and had no clue because I'm blind, it all looks the same to me. Brilliant, Vegas, just brilliant. Anyway, change this drop down menu to "Best". And save the Template.

The second thing I hate the most is it crashes a lot.

[rightOrWrongMyContry]

Vegas has scripting, which is not for everyone, but it's very powerful, you can automate so much.

[CaseOhFanClubChannel]

3:35 there is actually an option where you can change it that the clip opens in the trimmer tab instead send to the timeline. Hope it helps also good Video :)

[RicMoxley]

Idea for a video: would love to have you deep dive into one thing that was just a passing comment in this video: why you feel that Vegas Pro is not well optimized for doing a feature film. In other words, what do you see and other platforms that you don't see in Vegas? Thanks!

[photogenic]

The space bar can be used eaither as a PAUSE button, or a STOP button (been there since version 1 some 25 years ago. It's a simple selection box you tick (or un-tick) in prefrences.

[PatrickDKing]

On their site it has buy new license for about $250. Does that mean you buy it one and done and get updates for life or until vegas 21 ever comes out?

[CrackaLackTV]

I see that "The YouTube Formula" in the background ✊️ Great book for anyone interested in pursuing YouTube.

[patrickgamble]

I started off on an old version of Vegas Pro and switched over to Premiere Pro and I found both very similar - both straight forward, intuitive and easy to use - keen to try latest Vegas

[wity_morgan]

VEGAS need to give us more text effects, subtitles and lower thirds

[Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

This was fun, The comment section had tons of information as well . tHanks for posting. Signed Vegas 15 user

[Kemet.]

In fact, I was using Vegas Pro for 15 years before switching to DaVinci Resolve a year ago.
It was a pleasure using Vegas for editing on a Mac Bootcamp setup. However, after the Mac M1 was announced, Mactel on Bootcamp was no longer available.

Vegas Pro ran flawlessly on that setup, just like DaVinci does on the M1 chip.
However, I jumped right into DaVinci workflow and stop at Vegas Pro 19's... DaVinci workflow is super flawless and renders extremely fast.

When you work with Vegas Pro, you have to mess around with all those windows and panels, whereas when you use DaVinci, you can work on your action on 6 pages to design what you're working on.

The industry standard will be DaVinci in about 5 years. It's a powerful editing, color, audio, and 3D compositing program.
All in one... their only problem is developing Fusion animation so there are fewer nodes and steps involved in creating animation.

When I dive down and look at steps for creating some of text and graphic animation, there are a lot of steps for simple animation.
Fusion code is probably about 20 years old. A free CD version was available 10 years ago.

In DaVInci, things were taken from Vegas Pro, Autodesk Combustion, and Smoke and improved.
As far as what I used them for, there are similarities between all three.