This is why Magix Vegas is now a NLE to Look Out For
By Adam Noyes
While names like Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro usually dominate the Non Linear Editing discussion- and for good reason! But, there is another option to look out for that is very straight forward, and loaded with features- Magix Vegas Pro 17.
Redsharknews.com recently posted a great review on Vegas Pro. We’re going to take a look at that article below!
Vegas, an extremely capable NLE that’s been around since 1999, is now owned by Magix. It seems to have found a comfortable and welcoming home with the German company, where it’s being actively developed and supported, after a period of stagnation and uncertainty.
I first came across Vegas very soon after it was released. You may be surprised to know that at first it didn’t support video. That’s an unusual strategy for a video editor, but – back then – it wasn’t a video editor. It was, quite specifically, an a multitrack audio application, and a very good one, I remember, if a little confusingly positioned in the market place because what it definitely wasn’t, was a multitrack version of Sound Forge, Sonic, Foundry’s seminal stereo audio editor.
I’d spent most of the previous years working for companies that sold DAWs, and I’d seen the demise of the hardware-based systems in favour of downloadable audio editors like Cool Edit Pro, which went on to become the basis for Adobe’s Audition.
So here was a very classy-looking multitrack audio editor that didn’t need specialist hardware. It was interesting for that alone. But then, along came Firewire (Sony called it iLink and engineers called it IEEE 1394), which was the first time you could link a digital camera directly to generic computer without a special interface card – although most PCs didn’t come with DV on the motherboards – so you still needed a DV interface.
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