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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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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

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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

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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
VEGAS Pro is currently the primary video editing software for my company. However, after this latest upgrade (to VEGAS Pro 18 Suite) [we hoped] that this new version would fix some of the stability issues of the previous version. [In my experience] the upgrade did not solve these issues. The great power of VEGAS Pro [in my opinion] is overshadowed by a lack of stability and a lack of an ability to complete a project without multiple freezes and shutdowns oftentimes losing dozens of edits due to a less than intuitive auto-save function.
  • 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
VEGAS Pro [in my opinion] has so much potential to be great. So many powerful features for audio and video editing. Unfortunately, after the sale from Sony to MAGIX [I believe] the software has become less stable even on CAD-certified workstations. [From what I've experienced] there is no customer service telephone number or support email address. All support requests must go through their website and my last requests have gone unanswered after a month. When Sony owned the software I [was] able to get on a live chat with a tech who would solve issues in minutes, not days. Not true today [per my experience]. With the decline in reliability and lack of customer support, I can no longer recommend a MAGIX product.
July 01, 2021

VEGAS Pro Review

Carlos Acosta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company is located in the real estate sector, therefore, having the facility to design videos for advertising or for our publications to be more attractive and attract more public, has become a really easy task thanks to VEGAS Pro. In our Marketing sector is where VEGAS Pro is being used, because this platform allows us to edit our advertising videos, it allows our videos to have a much higher quality and that we can transmit the information in a better way to all our public. The advertising videos that we make in VEGAS Pro are much more professional, we can make excellent transitions and we can also add filters to the video. We are very grateful for the effectiveness that VEGAS Pro has shown since it came to our company, because previously our videos were not as high quality as they are now, before we made much simpler videos and this meant that we could not attract as many clients as now.

Vegas Pro is a program a bit complicated to use, although its interface is quite complete, I think it is a bit difficult to adapt to it, it is also important to note that although it has very striking functions such as object tracking, high quality rendering , all those functions are complicated to use.
  • 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.
Many of my friends from other companies have asked me for recommendations for some video editing software, and my recommendation has always been VEGAS Pro. Currently, there are many platforms that offer video editing with basic functions but that help to have an editing a unprofessional and without complexity of use, however, VEGAS Pro despite being a difficult software to use, has much more professional functions than any other platform today, its ability to add motion trackers, make image edits, make Simultaneous audio edits is awesome. The only problem that is really noticeable to me and my colleagues who use VEGAS Pro in my work area, is the rendering issue, there are many programs with less time rendering, however, the reason why we still consider that VEGAS Pro is the best option, it is because it offers much more professional editing functions, of better quality. Rendering is an issue that can be fixed by having a computer with extremely good characteristics, so that you can render the video in less time and that it does not affect the consumption of the RAM card, but in general, rendering is a problem for a large number of users.

I recommend VEGAS Pro for those who own computers with features suitable for long-term rendering, with a good video card that supports the rendering quality.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our editing department uses it for most video and audio editing tasks, including marketing videos and podcast audio. We use it because it is simple to use yet powerful enough for most video projects. Why take the time to teach someone to use Premiere Pro or Final Cut when VEGAS Pro can get the job done and someone with little training can be effective using it?
  • Social media videos for YouTube
  • Training videos for customers
  • Podcast audio
  • Not for motion graphics like Adobe After Effects
  • Seems like now they don't improve the software much
If you need basic video editing, anyone can learn to use VEGAS Pro and get a great result. If you need to make something that has to be used in other tools like Adobe After Effects, then maybe VEGAS Pro is not the best choice. But for standalone editing, it is my choice.
chuck taylor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I began using Sony VEGAS 6 in 2006 as an introduction to an affordable way to learn video for music production. I am primarily self taught and when I started using it there was for me a very slight learning curve since I had been using Sony Acid Music software. I found it to be very easy to use after a lot of trial and error. I have produced a lot of very good projects. And I found that since it was purchased by Magix they have added quite a bit of very useful capabilities that have elevated it (in my opinion) to be very reliable. I have consistently updated it and I am at version Magix VEGAS 17 Post and they have just released 18 with even better functionality than the previous version. It has the capability to open the project from multiple video editing platforms (Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, etc) which allows the ability to work on different projects. And depending on how creative the user is it is undistinguishable from the aforementioned editing platforms.
  • 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.
I was working to reimagine a client's video done by another editor and it worked very, very welI. However, I had to reallocate my memory (16 Gigs) in order to accommodate Vegas Image and I still don't have enough to effectively use it the way I need to so I will have to work to solve this issue until I upgrade my computer.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Vegas Pro for creating, editing and converting a variety of video and audio projects. We use it for both internal projects and projects for clients. We make our own videos for internal use, videos for marketing and videos for educational purposes. We also do video work for clients. This ranges from creating new videos from scratch to editing, converting formats, and otherwise manipulating existing videos.

We've been using Vegas Pro for many years. It has consistently proven to be reliable, efficient and economical. It works with a very wide range of source materials in various formats. We can mix and match many different sources together on the same timeline and then output the final product in a variety of formats for different purposes, such as Internet videos, Blu-ray and DVD discs, etc.

The tools that come with Vegas are all quite good and offer many advanced capabilities. We also use some 3rd party add-ons, including NewBlue FX, Vegasaur and Excalibur. Vegas does nearly everything we've ever had a need to do. The few times we've come across something unusual that Vegas couldn't do, it was easy enough to find a 3rd party application that added the functionality that was needed.
  • 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.
Vegas Pro is well suited for any situation where professional-quality video and audio editing, conversion, and manipulation need to be done in an affordable, efficient manner. Vegas Pro provides a great deal of power and performance at an affordable price. It's fairly intuitive and easy to learn.

Where Vegas Pro is less appropriate is in high-end productions, where there is a very large budget for high-end, top-of-line video production systems. In high-end, Hollywood studio situations, it makes more sense to stick with the video editing systems that are more commonly used in these environments, rather than try to introduce something different into the mix.
Emily Keener | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I had bought a license for VEGAS Pro in grad school and I have since kept it up on my computer. Since we do not have an institutional license for a specific video editing software, VEGAS Pro has come in handy for many projects where I need to trim or edit a video, add a text overlay, or splice audio.
  • 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.
VEGAS Pro makes it VERY easy to make simple edits to a video - trimming, blending elements of different video and audio clips, layering text on screen. Although I wish it had a captioning feature and a few other elements that products like Camtasia have, ultimately I am a big fan of how easy it is to use VEGAS Pro. It does more than YouTube's video editor, but is easier to use.
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