VEGAS Pro 15 Edit Steam Edition

worked great on all my old pc's, but since installing it on my new one with windows 11, it slowly starts to break down during use. its like the digital equivalent of gallium on metal. right click context menus will start flashing, stuff will start disappearing until i hover over it, until everything completely disappears and no context menus function anymore.

but before windows 11, ive never had issues with this edition of vegas, it was my favorite legal copy

Good for social media content, quick and dirty. Would not recommend for 4k content or paid gigs. Better sound controls then most video editors for sure!

Got it on really good sale over the Holidays and it's been a very valuable and easy to learn tool! Would highly recommend if you're looking to make game videos :)

Used the program without issue for 4 years. The publishers are revoking the licenses for the older versions of the program one at a time to try to force you to re-buy the newer versions. So I am out my money, and my program. Scummy as all hell.

It worked fine on my last computer, actually it worked great. It was my first time using a video editing software but I really liked it. However, I got a new computer and had to download all my steam games. Once I finished downloading Vegas Pro I went to launch it. When ever I launch it it come up with and error code. Error code -59. I click the "ok" button and then it states, "An error occurred starting VEGAS Pro.There is no license to use this software." I click "ok" and the window closes. So in conclusion, I WOULD recommend this software; however, at least in two weeks, or whatever Steams refund police allows, launch the application and see if it works. If not, please refund and get your $150 back.

I've been using Vegas video editing software for a few years now. I started with Vegas Studio 11, then 13, bought 14 and 15 in the Vegas Pro variants.
I'm all for adding new features and fixing bugs. But Magix, you guys are assholes. Every year you're trying to get people to pay another 200-300 bucks, essentially making the software into a subscription model.
I legally own Vegas Pro 14 and 15. When I try to run them it says "error. No license installed." When I go on the store it says "Magix asked to remove Vegas Pro 15 from the store."

If you cared about your customers, you'd make it 1 product. "Vegas Pro". The end. Then you can pay for support/updates based on a subscription model. But don't just take my license away. I paid 150€ for that, I get to damn well use it as I please, even if you no longer sell it.

What is this?

DO NOT BUY THIS OR ANY OTHER VERSION. I have been working with the magix versions of vegas pro for quite some time now and i can say it is probably the most terrible software ever. They charge you upwards of $300 for what essentially is broken software. expect 24/7 crashes and problems. They also do not update any of there software. when a new version comes out, ditch the old one. you are literally paying for a broken version of iMovie. do yourself a favor and use premier pro.

DO NOT BUY I have been using SVP 15 steam edition for quite some time and have had nothing but problems with it. over 50 hours of program usage and every now and then I get an error code 59 basically stating that I don't own the license to run it anymore even if I had just used the program the day before. this software is a headache and a half.

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

PRO-TIP:

1. Open a new project in Vegas.
   
2. Open the "Options" drop-down in the top-left, and HOLD shift, and then click on "Preferences".
   
3. Go to the tab in the popup that says "Internal".
   
4. 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.

Daylight robbery. Useless editor. Constantly crashes (tried both on Win 7 and Win 10) on a gaming pc with i7 6700k, 16gb RAM, GTX1070. Video stabilization feature is completely unusable, the software will crash before it completes the stabilization.

Avoid Vegas Pro products like the plague!
Wished I'd tried it before the refund period ran out.

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)

Decided to try this to save money from Adobe CC.

It's NOT worth it. I saw comment of compalints that the program crashes & freezes after awhile, I thought since I have a very powerful PC it wouldn't matter. Boy was I wrong. Complained to Steam about it & they didn't want to do anything. So I'm out of pocket & have this terrible program left in my libary not being used & still paying for Adobe CC. I would never recommmend this to anyone, so save your money as it's not worth the price tag.

Listen up folks.
Everyone is hit and miss with this software.
My 2cents:
Switching from 14 - 15 is like night and day, worth the money. Why?
- Previewer is more optimized (ughhh so happy about this)
- I didn't feel like I had to download all these other files, I wanted a product more complete than SV 14
- Stabilizer is bonkers better without distorting quality (damn it's good)
- LUT implementation from stock product (instead of aftermarket software) is way better and soooo much easier
- the layout is cleaner, better visual aid for color corrections

Ensure you have a solid CPU and GPU.
More RAM the better.
Update the software.
No complaints.

My production company has been using Vegas Pro for many, many years. I'm sorry to say, at least with our systems Vegas 15 is not fit for purpose. Timelines with many clips on can take an age to load. Like 15 or twenty minutes, whereas in Vegas 13 the project would be loaded in a minute.

Avoid 15 and go for 14.

I've been incredibly disappointed with Vegas Pro 15 Edit Steam Edition. I've used Vegas products before and have always liked their relatively intuitive interface. I've used some of the other Magix software as well. However, this software has been essentially unusable, as it crashes every 15 or 20 minutes on the outside. Frankly, it doesn't matter what the other functionality is - although as far as general usability, it seems mostly identical to Vegas Pro 14.
That being said, the chroma key/green screening wasn't great in 14 and it hasn't improved. I don't know if it's just the steam edition that is terrible, but I wish I would have listened to the other reviews that talked about the crashing - because that's been exactly my experience, and it's rendered the software unusable. The time I've used it also seems grossly overstated - it's hard to use software that won't stay running. I've gotten maybe 50 minutes of actual use out of the product because of the constant crashing. Sometimes it recovers the files where I was at when I relaunch it, often it doesn't or it has lost all of the most recent changes.

With new video projects coming up in a month or so, I have to move onto other software. I just wish I hadn't spent the hundreds of dollars that I did for this. I could have used that for a subscription to Adobe After Effects/Premiere.

Pros: It's pretty quick to learn basic editing and the editing is smooth and easy to cut/mix stuff.
*Cons: It crashes so frequently that it's unusable, rendering the software worthless.

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)

tried using it 7 times, it crashed 5 of those, for something of this price tag, this is simply a waste, asking for a refund

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IW4TDJkw7E
- 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!

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.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/how-to-update-vegas-pro-15-steam-edition-to-build-216--109145/

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!