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VEGAS Pro

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What is VEGAS Pro?

MAGIX Software headquartered in Berlin offers the VEGAS Pro line of video editing applications which combines the company's Sound Forge audio editing suite and a wide range of movie production features and effects.

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VEGAS Pro has established itself as the go-to video editing software for many companies, offering a range of features and capabilities. …
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You're on your own kid.

1 out of 10
October 14, 2021
VEGAS Pro is currently the primary video editing software for my company. However, after this latest upgrade (to VEGAS Pro 18 Suite) [we …
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Pricing

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Vegas Pro 18 Edit

$399.00

Cloud

Vegas Pro 18

$599.00

Cloud

Vegas Pro 18 Edit Suite

$799.00

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is VEGAS Pro?

VEGAS Pro Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

MAGIX Software headquartered in Berlin offers the VEGAS Pro line of video editing applications which combines the company's Sound Forge audio editing suite and a wide range of movie production features and effects.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of VEGAS Pro are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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VEGAS Pro has established itself as the go-to video editing software for many companies, offering a range of features and capabilities. One key use case of VEGAS Pro is in the real estate sector where users utilize the software to design attractive videos for advertising and publications. By leveraging VEGAS Pro's professional video editing tools, real estate professionals are able to create visually appealing videos that showcase properties in a captivating manner, ultimately attracting a larger audience. Similarly, in the marketing sector, VEGAS Pro is widely used to edit advertising videos, enhancing their quality and delivering information effectively. Users appreciate the effectiveness of VEGAS Pro in improving the overall quality of their videos, making them more appealing to potential clients.

While some users have experienced stability issues with the latest upgrade, VEGAS Pro remains highly regarded for its wide range of tools and advanced capabilities. The software allows for seamless transitions, excellent visual enhancements through filters, and easy integration of third-party add-ons to enhance functionality when needed. This makes it an ideal choice for creating, editing, and converting various video and audio projects across industries such as marketing, education, and custom video work. Additionally, VEGAS Pro's compatibility with different editing platforms adds versatility and positions it as a comparable option to industry-standard software.

VEGAS Pro is appreciated for its stability and intuitive interface, which caters to users who value an easy learning curve. It finds applications in various contexts such as short advertisements, YouTube presentations, bug demonstrations, and general video editing tasks. Its ability to handle quick video edits makes it a preferred choice for tasks ranging from advertising and educational videos to product demos and bug fixes. Moreover, VEGAS Pro's functionalities extend beyond simple trimming and editing; users can also add text overlays, splice audio, and handle various project requirements without resorting to institutional licenses.

In production departments across industries, where consistent audio quality is essential for maintaining professionalism, VEGAS Pro is exclusively used to improve efficiency through templates and presets. The software has also found its place in the marketing, public relations, and editing departments for creating promo videos, color correction, and audio mixing. Whether it's producing web media for platforms like YouTube and social media or creating educational content that requires handling a variety of media formats, VEGAS Pro continues to be a reliable choice for video editing tasks.

Users highly recommend Vegas Pro for individuals in search of a comprehensive video editing tool with a one-time payment subscription. They emphasize its power and versatility, making it capable of handling complex editing tasks and delivering professional-level results. Additionally, users advise potential buyers to look for cost-effective deals. However, they caution that Vegas Pro requires a substantial amount of RAM, so it is important to ensure that your computer meets the software's system requirements for optimal performance.

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October 14, 2021

You're on your own kid.

Bob Heazlit | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Edits and transitions are simple and effective
  • Powerful audio editing function beyond what you find in comparable software
  • [In my experience] there is no customer support after purchase
  • [Again from my experience] auto save [is] not intuitive enough to recover all edits after a crash
  • Crashes on simple projects and gets worse with complexity
July 01, 2021

VEGAS Pro Review

Carlos Acosta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • One of the things that I love about VEGAS Pro is that I can do automatic tracking control to an object or image, this is a very remarkable function in VEGAS Pro, because this way you can add better mobility to the video in general, in addition , you can focus the video view to a specific object.
  • The image edits with the VEGAS Pro filters are really fantastic. For us, having a good visualization and definition of our images is very important, which is why this function has provided really remarkable results. We have been able to modify the tonality of the images that we add to the video and we have also managed to change the colors thanks to the filters available for video in general. These filters are very varied, I can add a filter to give my image a warm touch, a touch of cold or sunset.
  • At the bottom of the platform, the audio barrier is shown, where you can add several audio tracks and thus be able to modify the audio of the entire video for every second that passes, however, this function is much more impressive as it also allows you to add another audio barrier to play two audio tracks at the same time.
  • The autosave is fantastic, VEGAS Pro has an excellent autosave system capable of saving all the progress that has been made in the video that is being edited, the autosave does not consume additional capacity to the computer, so it is very easy to have it activated and not worry about computer performance.
  • VEGAS Pro does not consume many computer resources when the person is editing the video and making audio edits, the amount of RAM it consumes is very minimal, however, one of the main problems that occur in VEGAS Pro is that it has a high consumption when rendering the video. The rendering of the video is basically applying all the modifications to the video and converting it to a stable quality, however, this process takes approximately 2 hours or max, it all depends on how long the video is, and the computer cannot be used since it may be slow in operation, due to the high consumption of rendering.
  • VEGAS Pro offers translations of the video's audio automatically, it transforms the audio into subtitles, however, these subtitles are not as accurate. Being an automated function, it is not as precise and this causes the subtitles to not have a good translation then when the process is done manually.
Cedric Allen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It does what it says as a non-linear editor. It works that way and not as "tape-deck" in a computer program motiff like Premier and Final Cut do. Nonlinear video editing is not complicated and VEGAS Pro allows for you to do that.
  • It allows for you not to rely super heavily on graphic card performance and combines with your memory in a quick an efficient way. Render times are amazing and real-time playback has always been ahead of its competitors.
  • The interface and setup are easy to understand, which makes editing and getting started on any project quick and easy. If you have to end up pulling out the manual for help constantly to find out what to do and how to do it then the creative process is lost. VEGAS Pro allows for you to get to it and not waste a day on it.
  • It is a name in the industry you can trust to do the right thing and also the forums and the people that frequent them make the experience more enjoyable.
  • I would say outside of the software itself, better press on what they do or who uses it.
  • A lifetime pass to longtime users of 10-20 years.
  • More invites to be beta testers or advisors on the next product line.
chuck taylor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It is easy to learn with patience.
  • They are constantly upgrading the platform to keep up with higher end NLE systems.
  • It functions (to me) better when dual monitors are used, but a single screen is good if you don't mind moving the timeline functionality around.
  • It would be good if it was available in the Apple format.
  • It is advisable to download multiple codecs that would allow one to open different video formats.
  • Make sure that your computer has enough memory to handle the demands you put on your computer.
  • I use a Macbook Pro with Bootcamp on Windows 10.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Vegas Pro handles all manner of source materials, including a wide variety of video formats, still photos in a wide variety of formats, etc. It handles them all in a consistent manner and outputs everything in a consistent manner. Other video editing programs we've used in the past often had problems with mixing different sources.
  • Vegas Pro works well and performs efficiently without requiring super high-end hardware. It doesn't need a $1500 video card or other high-end components to work. Of course, it will work better with better hardware, but it doesn't require top-of-line hardware to be useful.
  • Vegas Pro comes with many transition effects, video filters, audio effects, audio filters, etc. Almost everything you need to do professional-quality video and audio is built-in. With a few low-cost add-ons, you can do even more.
  • While Vegas Pro does handle 4k video, I find that it still struggles a bit to keep up when playing back or processing 4k. I suspect this is at least partially due to the fact that the computer I am using for Vegas is not quite powerful enough to really handle 4k efficiently.
Joseph Benton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • YouTube/Facebook videos from any source material including graphics.
  • Produce the highest quality videos for broadcast up to 4K resolution.
  • Creating video of any size for HTML output when imported into Articulate Storyline.
  • VEGAS Pro does not accept or import SVG graphics which is sad.
  • At times VEGAS Pro does not work well with the add-ons sold with it.
  • Despite its ease of use, some Hollywood-style effects are a real challenge.
Chuck Graudins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very stable, less crashes than the competition.
  • Intuitive interface, easier to learn.
  • Priced fairly for a buyout. I hate subscriptions.
  • Once in a rare while, the program will crash. Hoping an update will resolve this.
  • I'd love to see more professional titling built into the next version.
  • Also would like to see more modern transitions.
  • Would love to see an integration of an option to render video to YouTube's current video codec.
Jonah Dempcy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Video Editing - This is where VEGAS Pro shines. I love the user interface and hotkeys. I find it much more intuitive and easy to use than perhaps its main competitor, Adobe Premiere. Many of the user interface design choices will ultimately be up to user preference, but in my case, I find VEGAS Pro intuitive and easy to use.
  • Suite Integration - I went to school for audio engineering and had a lot of experience using Sound Forge, which is part of the same suite of software and has a lot of the same user interface design.
  • Additional video transitions would be a nice improvement.
  • Mac support would be great. I do my video editing on a Windows PC, so it's not a big deal for me, but it would be nice to have Vegas installed on my MacBook Pro so I could edit on the fly when traveling.
Emily Keener | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simple timeline video editor.
  • Basic clip transitions.
  • Easy audio splicing.
  • Links to programs like Audacity for audio editing.
  • Seems to be intended for novice video editors and basic projects (doesn't handle audio editing, for example).
  • Many of the clip "effects" are amateurish (crackling screen, screen spinning in a spiral, etc.).
  • Zooming into portions of the screen/panning can be cumbersome.
Vince Koegle | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We use Vegas nearly exclusively for audio production. The editing tools are easy to use. The interface is laid out well, so it's intuitive.
  • Plugins are readily available and easy to use when needed.
  • Since Sony sold Vegas, the customer service has taken a decline...at least in my experience. I've had almost no success in reaching anyone by phone and the email support is not very quick.
  • It also seems that I experience more instances of Vegas closing without notice.
  • It would be nice to have the option to save project files in formats that can be opened by other editing suites.
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