Is Sony Vegas that good of a program?

[Guernsey]

I had been hearing a lot of good things including the price but is it really that good? What can it do that most others can't?

[racer-x]

It's pretty good for "Windows" video editing s/w. If you want to save yourself some money, then switch to Linux and use KDEnlive and (Aviutl via Wine)........

But..............To each their own.

[Guernsey]

I don't have Linux so I am stuck with Vegas.

[betwixt]

Linux has some excellent video editing programs these days and most are free, including may of the 'special effects' plug-ins. I have some dual boot machines in my editing suite but I find they are almost entirely used in Linux now.

Don't forget Linux is itself free and if you have enough disk space, it will quite happily sit along side Windows. Best of all, it can read Windows file systems so you can still read any media you already have stored.

Brian.

[ron spencer]

What distro is recommended now?

[racer-x]

I've been using Linux Mint for a few years now and like it. https://www.linuxmint.com/

[vkmast]

Getting back to the original question(s), only the OP himself can answer. Download the 30-day free MAGIX-branded trial of Vegas Pro 13 build 545 from MAGIX, which is the new owner of the Vegas product line. Judge for yourself if it does what you want and need.
http://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/

You probably can still find the Sony-branded Vegas Pro 13 (last build 453) somewhere, but Sony/SCS do not sell it any more. As the transition is still in progress you may need a workaround to register/activate that one at the moment.

[smrpix]

I had been hearing a lot of good things including the price but is it really that good? What can it do that most others can't?

I haven't tried it since the transition -- but Vegas was always very efficient at using system resources, the cheaper versions were more than competitive price wise, cheaper versions had most of the features of the high-end version that a one-man-band would need, and the logic and layout were excellent.

Coming from Avid, I was and am quite impressed by the price to power ratio. It's not that it can do things the others can't, it's that it does them affordably and very well.