Re: "Divorcing" Vegas at NAB

I've been using Vegas since version 4. In fact I first used "Video Explosion" which was really Sonic Foundry's Video Factory. Anyway, I have loved (still love) Vegas. Every new version was so much greater than the previous, and the stability also improved. I was extremely happy with Pro 8. Pro 8 almost never crashed. When Pro 9 came out, I intentionally skipped it as I didn't see any benefit over Pro 8.

Then when Pro 10 supported the Canon 5D MOV files, I bought the upgrade immediately, as I no longer wanted intermediate files. For the most part, it works OK with these files. A bit sluggish, but still prever that over intermediate files. However, the stability of Pro 10 is so much worse. It crashes aften with some projects. Oddly enough, some audio-only projects will crash or hang. And these are just .wav or .mp3 files. I've also had issues with empty audio tracks when nesting certain projects.

So maybe it's my machines because of bad driver interactions, or from using old plugins, not sure. It's just my perception that Vegas Pro isn't as stable as it used to be. If I didn't have a 32-bit PC I would now be using Premiere CS5 (which only supports 64-bit).

-Jim.