VEGAS Pro 15 Edit Steam Edition

Amazing Program, Got it for $100 On Sale!
If You are Having Crashing Issues Try This!
Open Vegas,
Go to the Top Left and Click "Options",
Hold Shift + Click "Preferences",
Click the Tab that Says "Internal",
Type "Enable Multi-Core",
Change Value to "FALSE",
Click Apply.
I Haven't Crashed Since!

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Open a new project in Vegas.
Open the "Options" drop-down in the top-left, and HOLD shift, and then click on "Preferences".
Go to the tab in the popup that says "Internal".
Search for "msauto".
This determines the frequency of which Vegas performs an auto-save. 300,000 means five minutes, which is frankly not frequent enough. I set it to 60,000 because of how ridicuously often this program will crash and how much hair you will pull out.
The best word video editor out there. I used the "legal" version of Vegas Pro 13 for all of my video projects until my new Anti-virus kicked it off, and then I had to buy this version.
30 minutes after downloading and installing this on a stable PC that hasn't had a BSOD in over a month, Vegas Pro 15 stopped responding, faded to white, and crashed. Great job, MAGIX, you wonder why people pirate this in the first place. I was working with widely popular H.264 and AAC video from new cameras. There's absolutely no excuse for this. I was just scrubbing through my timeline, ugh.
Besides the crashing which is an absolute thorne in my side--primarily because it always seems to happen whenever I forget to save in the past few minutes and lose a lot of work--Sony Vegas is the most intuitive video editor you will ever come across.
It's amazingly easy to pickup, and starting cutting footage, which is an absolute necessity when working with a lot of long footage which I ocassionally do. Watch one tutorial on how to use the video FX and keyframes, and now you know most of Vegas.
The interface is so snappy, responsive, everything is where you need it to be.
Adobe Premier might be faster, crashes less often, industry-standard, and has more bells and whistles, but it is an absolute chore to use. You can only splice footage if it you use the "Razor" tool? What, why can't there be multiple ways to accomplish fundamental tasks to support multiple workflows? Combined with the typical Adobe oddities, and the fact that clip snapping and the interface is incredibly hard to use quickly (small buttons, < 10 pixel fault tolerance for extending a clip, other frustrations,) I hate using Premier for projects compared with Vegas.
For context, I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, regularly. I love them both. There's nothing that comes close to Illustrator and Photoshop for stitching together images, and making animations, and many other tasks. I just don't think Premier is good for stitching a lot of footage together. I sometimes use Premier to make animations, but nothing more than 15 seconds.
MAGIX, take this extremely qualified yes************.

There is a handfull of problems for early adopters, i have been having issues with how the Software handels the new AVC audio, it doubles tracks and straight up dupes them. So 4 track content will get 8 tracks, you can solves this by deactivating how the new way AVC is handled. Not sure if this messes with hardware acceleration ect ect.
Another issues is in the design, Yes it's better overall! But there is a 20px header in every track using up space for both peaks and previews. So if you like me got 2 video tracks and 4 audio tracks you get 120px of deadspace in your timeline for a header that has no real purpose. There needs to be a way to remove it in future updates.
The good stuff is as mentioned the rest of the UI, i also had a better time with a capture card. Seems like Nvidia graphic cards actually are benefitical in Rendering now! I seen speeds up to 40% faster then Pro 14, that's very much welcome as i know some people using premier just due to rendering speeds.
I personally dont regret buying this as early as i did due the 25% lower price, however i can't really recommend it to anyone until all glitches and small issues has been fixed i really wish there was neutral option when writing reviews. But I will make sure to recommend this once most stuffs has been sorted out.
***Update/Warning*** 2017-10-21
There has been a fix out for over 2 weeks now "build 216" that would fix most my problem, but it's not for Steam. Don't get the steam version of Vegas pro 15, you will be left out completely with a inferior version the devs don't seem to care about. You can't even manually update. The same thing happened to Vegas pro 14 here on steam.
***Update***
You can force update the version to 216, by following this.
The 216 build has solved a lot of problems i had with the software! But i still don't recommend the steam version, why the fuck do i have to go through all this trouble? I'm a paying costumer just like anyone who bought the retail version.
I'll keep the negative recommendation until someone actually care about the steam version. We are pay several hundred dollars for this, so i hope someone gives a damn.
****Update*****
*Changed to Positive after using both 216 unofficial and the officially 219 steam update for over two week*:
The timeline/header design can now be fixed, while still retaining all the new proper feature. No more wasted space and buttons can be changed to fit your editing.
A major audio workaround sems to have been fixed, i no longer get issues with tracks.
The Magix AVC/AAC is brutally fast compared to previous methods in Vegas 14, been using this software with a 1950x threadripper and holy sh*t it's been ripping good. Nvidia encoding is also rediciously fast roughtly 30% faster then the threadripper on it's own. When rendering with nvidia the cpu is relaxing at about 40% work allowing for other productivity. Seems to work fine with both my 980ti and 1080ti.
This is fast enough for me to ditch Premier and do batch rendering in Vegas. Premier will without a doubt be better if you really want to push it. But for most content creators Vegas does it a lot more easy.
I hope Magix keep updating the steam software. And holy shit, i bought this software for 25% off at $299 the current deal of $199 is absolutly worth it! If you read this when the price is back to $399 you should still consire the retail version.
Either way, i'm changing this to positive now. Haven't touched any earlier software because i haven't need it!

i got this at $90 it's good id say, has a crashing problem, there is three ways to fix this.
First way is open up task manager
you can do this many ways simple way to explain it is ctrl+alt+delete
open task-> more details-> details tab -> find vegas150.exe right click it -> set affinity -> uncheck the last cpu on that list -> hit okay
you can do the same thing pretty much by going to options hold shift+preferences -> internal tab -type in the box at the bottom "multi-core" switch the values, "disable multi-core rendering, value = TRUE" "enable multi-core rendering for pla..., value = false"
and make sure the accelerated GPU option is off. (no matter how good your GPU is, it may still be the problem i'm on a 1080 Ti) in the preference window go to the video tab third thing down will be "GPU acceleration of video processing:" switch it to off
if you are still crashing i don't know what to say because i haven't crashed in over a month of using it after i set the settings above and the program still is a BAMF program

I come from using an old version of Sony Vegas 12 that I purchased and used until now. I kept trying to find information if anyone could recommend upgrading to this version of the software and after having spent some time with it I would personally have to say ABSOLUTELY, however there are things you need to know before you purchase!
Pros:
- I have not crashed once! (I had major crashing issues on 12 when multicore rendering was enabled)
- Rendering time has been reduced drastically if you use Magix new codec with a compatible GPU (NVIDIA 1060 6GB personally, can't say how it fairs AMD users)
Cons:
- Audio gets split up to a left and right tracks by default, so if your video has 3 traicks they become 6. To fix this it is a simple options change just follow these instructions
- Rendering times are only drastically reduced if you're using the Magix codec with a compatible GPU, so be sure your Video Card is compatible and that you're okay with the format the codec outputs!

Hasn't crashed once for me however the Video FX editor is extremely laggy compared to previous versions of Vegas which can make it difficult to do precise keyframing.
Despite that it's still a pretty good piece of software, even if I paid £100 in a sale only for it to go on sale again two days later for only £70 (Not too happy about that)

Vegas Pro has been my go to video editing for many years. I like it's simplicity and workflow. For my daily work i need a fast and easy to use editing program that does not overload me with features and options. This is not to say that Vegas Pro does not have advanced options. It just does a really good job at not cluttering the UI.
I can usually get a Youtube video ready within 10 minutes. Using templates and archive footage. Encode it and upload. If i need to do complicated video effects i switch to Premiere or After Effects but for the daily work this is perfect.
What bothers me a little is that there is no separate encoding application to queue multiple videos so i can encode and keep editing other videos.
PRO: Good UI, simple interface, fast workflow.
CON: No separate encoding application. (there is batch Rendering)