Quick, Easy To Use For Basic Video Editing
February 25, 2020

Quick, Easy To Use For Basic Video Editing

Jonah Dempcy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with VEGAS Pro

VEGAS Pro is used by myself and by our user experience designer for video editing. I most recently used VEGAS Pro for a short advertisement video for Instagram. I also use VEGAS Pro for editing YouTube video presentations and splicing together screencasts to demonstrate bugs and UX functionality. I find VEGAS Pro to be invaluable when I need to quickly edit video for any number of use cases, ranging from production-level advertising and educational videos to product demos and bug fixes.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.
  • VEGAS Pro has had a positive impact on being able to rapidly produce short video clips demonstrating product and UX functionality and bugs.
  • VEGAS Pro has also had a positive impact on being able to easily make short video ads for mobile, such as Instagram, and for editing YouTube videos.
  • VEGAS Pro has more features than iMovie but is nowhere near as complex (or robust, for better or worse) as Adobe Premiere Pro. It is also not as robust as the Avid video editing suite, including Avid Media Composer. However, I do not have much familiarity with that product line besides seeing them in use.
  • In addition to being a software developer, I enjoy making films both for YouTube and elsewhere, as well as composing film soundtracks. I have several friends who are filmmakers, and it seems Adobe Premiere Pro is more common for feature-length films, as is the Avid suite. Still, having tried Adobe Premiere Pro, I much prefer VEGAS Pro. Partly this is because I have so much familiarity with MAGIX Sound Forge (formerly Sony, and then Sonic Foundry before that), as I have been using Sound Forge for nearly 20 years, since my days going to college for audio engineering. I am familiar with the hotkeys and user interface, and it is effortless for me to edit and export a video quickly. So, I would say the ease of use and speed are the main boons, to me.
I have never contacted MAGIX (or Sony or Sonic Foundry before them). Still, there is a large user support community online as well as a great many tutorial videos on YouTube, and elsewhere, that assist in figuring out how to do just about anything you might desire in VEGAS Pro. There are also online courses available that exclusively use VEGAS Pro. Therefore, I feel that the large user community and a plethora of educational resources make the VEGAS Pro software very well supported.

Do you think VEGAS Pro delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with VEGAS Pro's feature set?

Yes

Did VEGAS Pro live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of VEGAS Pro go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy VEGAS Pro again?

Yes

VEGAS Pro is excellent for beginning video editors who do not have experience with Avid or Premiere, both of which are far more complex. VEGAS Pro is also good for more experienced video editors who want to do simpler tasks. I would be less likely to use VEGAS Pro for a huge project or one which results in hours of video (like a feature film). However, for easy editing video ads, YouTube videos, tutorials, product demos, and the like, VEGAS Pro is my go-to video editor of choice simply because everything I do is so much faster in it. Say I want to pan and zoom—I can do this incredibly easily in VEGAS Pro, while it would take me far longer in Premiere. The learning curve for VEGAS Pro is just so much less steep than other more robust video editing apps and suites, while still offering more features and a professional level of quality not found in consumer-grade video editing apps like iMovie.

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