The main reason I said Vegas is more powerful is it is as it comes out of the box. Premiere is no where near as powerful out of the box. Yes with addons it is very powerful. But 999 for After Effects plus 799 for Premiere will get more tools then in Vegas but is that the question the OP asked? Then one would probably add third party addons. Premiere is a fine program but to me its way over priced and is lacking many of the tools that come standard in Vegas. However its up to the end user to decide but one must be fair when comparing the two apps. BTW Vegas can have addons too.

That's my main concern. To get the full Priemier Suite you're looking at ~$2k.

I own Final Cut Pro, The Adobe Master Collection CS3 (Premiere), and Vegas. I use Vegas. I suspect it is because of my experience with Sound Forge going back to version 4, but I have found Vegas to be more intuitive, render faster, and the render is better quality than Premiere in my view.

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sincere question...

Does Vegas do proxy resolution (aka ProRes) and file replacement on final output?

I haven't followed Vegas' dev but there was a time when it was tailored for miniDV rather than driving a scalable res system. Has it evolved to work with content captured at different resolutions?

For example; are people using Vegas with the Red camera?

best regards,
mike

Does Vegas do proxy resolution

Trick for Vegas (using a free utility):

http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/12/proxy-editing-with-sony-vegas/

These guys have a plugin for Premiere that makes it a one-button operation:

http://dvfilm.com/products.htm

So proxy editing isn't built into the core of the Vegas app?

Both Premiere and Final Cut come from the tradition of proxy editing and only for a brief period did desktop computer horse power and standards of the day match up for *native-resolution* editing. Now that hi res High Definition (not 35mBs HDV) is here many editors are back to using proxy workflows.

Editors are also encountering content that originates from a wider variety of sources than ever. So that requires the ability to gracefully deal with different formats and time scales. Final Cut seems to lead Premiere in this regard.

In the past that wasn't Vegas' strong point... is it strong in that regard now?

For some editors the grace, facility, and accuracy with which a program handles the various input formats becomes a priority.



If you are going to do any graphics you'll probably end up with Photoshop... I guess any image editor will do... but Photoshop is easy to use and pretty flexible.

If you work with Photoshop you'll enjoy the ability to drag a .psd into a video app and preserve layers for subsequent animation and effects... it's a huge time saver.


best regards,
mike

If you work with Photoshop you'll enjoy the ability to drag a .psd into a video app and preserve layers for subsequent animation and effects... it's a huge time saver.

True, I'm doing a video ATM in which all the props are just PS cut-ups, with all sorts of layer FX. What studio?

what app are you sing for that?

best,
mike

Mostly AE, some stuff (vegetation, some animations etc) I do in other specialist programs, but most stuff goes in via PS.

Can Vegas to what AE does as well with effects?