Adobe Premiere 6.5 or Vegas Video 3.0

[DVWannaB]

Hope this is the correct forum. If not I am sure it will be moved. But anyway, help me out. Which is better, Premiere or Vegas Video? They seem to provide many similar features and capabilities. So I hope you guys can shed some light here.

What am I looking for? A professional upscale version of VirtualDub. Capture AVI, with the ability to clean up video with filters, frameserve to TMPG or any other encoder (If I choose to) and also output to DV and VHS tape.

Thanks, DV.

[rsuave5]

i have adobe 6.0 so ill comment on that. premier has many cool features that are all around great tools, capturing from a mini dv cam its easy and simple it saves in windows video for me so i then can burn to dvd or i work them into svcds with other programs. i think the for menus and titles youll want something more so if you dont already have a good program for titling and menus you may want to consider that you will need to add that.
if vegas video did what premier does but also have an easier interface ( i dont like premieres timeline) then give that a try. but id reccomend premiere on the ease of capture and edit features(many) menus are easily imported and i reccomend dvd moviefactory or spruce up

[rick-kim]

I have tried both premiere 6.0 and vegas video 3.0 and believe vegas wins hands down. Why? Because Vegas does everything adpbe does, but has incredible and powerful sound editing tools. Same quality video editng, but with more thumbing sound tracks and cleaner background audio.

[mysticgohan17]

doesnt premier cost like 8000 dollars??

[DVWannaB]

doesnt premier cost like 8000 dollars??

No, as a student I can get it for $150. Retail is like $500.

[DVWannaB]

Thank you all for your input. I appreciate it.

[bapski]

id go for vv3... tried premier but never got over it.. learning curve is quite stiff....

vv3 is way to go....plus i agree with rick-kim

[Mirror_Image]

I'd lean heavily toward VV.

[crazyrussian]

Defenetely Vegas!!! I'm new to video editing, so, was trying many different applications to see which can suite me the best... Vegas wins over Premiere, Ulead, Pinnacle... and what else is out there...
1. Very Stable *knock knock knock..* never chashed
2. Inteface is so intuitive... anyone can do commercial class effects and edits... very very easy, yet very very powerfull
3. No learning cure.. realy. I tried Premiere... just can not figure out what goes where, what comes from what... manual is too big.. Tried Ulead Video studio... much better interface.. but also powerless, even with manual had trouble figuring stuff out, but much easier than Premiere... Tried Pinnacle Studio... that thing should not even be called an applications... crashes more than starts (of course it is subjective to my PC only, but still other apps dont crash). VV: read reasonble sized manual, and was doing very cool effects, transition, mixes (in my opinion, of course)

[YngwieJM]

VV3!!! I found a trick to get it a bit cheaper than retail- Go to Sonic Foundry's site and purchase VideoFactory 2.0 for $60 (download version or boxed). Now go and purchase the update to Vegas Video 3.0 for $200 more!!! This sure beats the $420 price for VV3. I did this and they offered to send the content cd to me for $5 (or something like that) so I would have all the software the boxed version comes with. Even though I use VV3 for most of my video needs I still convert everything to mpg with TMPGEnc since it's the best (for the money at least!). Good luck!

[Pied-Piper]

Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.5 has all the features that a video enthusiast can wish.
Video Capture, Direct X audio plug-ins support(> by installing Direct X audio plug-ins such as the ones that come with sonic fondry's audio appz you can use great audio filters in your timeline), Audio Editor, DVD autoring, Simple and fast learning, very good user interface, Good MPEG Encoder(New Ulead "MPEG Now"), excellent titling and video painting capabilities and more. Great transitions and effects(more than premiere).
Boris FX/RED, HollyWood FX, Adorage Magic and many other plug-ins work with UMSP perfectly. Much better than premiere.

[ROBO1964]

I tried both and uninstalled Premiere as it was way to hard to figure out how to do anything. VV3 is simple to use yet has all the power of Premiere. If you get right down to specs then VV3 is still more powerful.

I highly recommend it.

[Digital-Overload]

Premiere 6.5 !

Havnt been happier Editing...
hehe

6.5 Fixes some Crash problems.. and Adds alot more things..

[Thorn]

From what I've seen (haven't tried myself) Vegas Video does NOT frameserve! This seems like a serious setback versus premiere, because it's important to be able to frameserve to TMPGenc or CCE (actually CCE plugs into premiere... but it's expensive). I'd rather not save out to Huffyuv before encoding... or be stuck with the mainconcept encoder. That leaves good old virtualdub... or premiere.

Somebody tell me if VV now allows frameserving. From their user forums it seems the problem hasn't been addressed. I'll have to try vegas video, everyone seems to like it and maybe this issue will be resolved.