VEGAS Pro 18 Edit Steam Edition
- September 3, 2020
- MAGIX Software GmbH
- 758h median play time
New Version About the SoftwareVEGAS Pro 18 Edit – Steam Edition enables you to create gaming videos quickly at a high level of efficiency. The brand-new screen capture tool and audio synchronization for multicam editing let you record and edit your Let's Plays in no time at all. Discover a fast and seamless decoding/encoding workflow powered by hardware acceleration: VEGAS Pro automatically conf…
Reviews
- High quality video and audio editing capabilities with a user-friendly interface.
- Offers a one-time purchase model, making it more cost-effective compared to subscription-based software.
- Includes useful features and tools for editing, with improvements noted in newer versions.
- Frequent crashes and instability, making it difficult to complete projects without losing progress.
- Laggy preview and rendering issues, especially with longer videos or complex edits.
- Customer support and licensing issues have led to frustration among users.
- stability7 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The stability of the software is severely criticized, with users reporting frequent crashes, freezes, and various bugs that hinder functionality. Many express frustration over the software's performance, indicating it requires excessive system resources and is nearly unusable for tasks like video editing. Overall, the consensus is that the software is highly unstable and not worth its price.
“Complete dogshit software, so many different bugs, crashes, freezes, etc. Do not under any circumstance pay full price for this complete garbage.”
“It's a very buggy software; I can't even get the preview, it's black all the time, so it's impossible to edit anything.”
“Sucks, constantly crashes and freezes, takes a lot of RAM and PC usage to even run at a decent pace.”
- optimization2 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- -50 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Users emphasize the importance of utilizing all available options to enhance performance, with a notable recommendation to enable file proxies, which has been found to significantly resolve most performance issues in the software.
“I just found out, after over a decade of Vegas, that if you enable file proxies, nearly every performance issue is solved.”
“I just found out, after over a decade of playing Vegas, that if you enable file proxies, nearly every performance issue is solved.”
“Use all options available to you to enhance performance.”
- graphics1 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Users report persistent graphical glitches despite upgrading their PC components, indicating that the issues may not be related to individual hardware specifications.
- story1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The story has received mixed reviews, with some players appreciating its depth and character development, while others find it convoluted or lacking in coherence. Many highlight the emotional impact and thematic richness, but a few criticize pacing issues and predictability in plot twists. Overall, the narrative is seen as a significant, if polarizing, element of the game.