(vegas pro 10) vs (premiere pro cs4 & after effects cs4)

[MGadAllah]

Hello,

Without any complement I do believe now that Muvipix considered one of the best places over the web including various many experts.

Please I would like to kn ow your opinion or review for (Sony Vegas 10 Pro) compared to (Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 & After Effects CS4)

Thanks and much appreciated.

[Steve Grisetti]

Glad to hear you're finding what you need at Muvipix, Mohamed! We've got such a wonderful community of people here.

Comparing Vegas Pro to Premiere Pro CS4/5 is tough. They are both among the best programs of their kind in the world! (Final Cut Pro is probably the only other program that compares.)

The only possible disadvantage to Vegas Pro is that it's not industry standard. You'll find lots of professionals using Premiere Pro and you'll find a lot of professionals using Final Cut Pro -- but you'll find very few using Vegas Pro. Which is a shame, because it's really an excellent program. And it's several hundred dollars cheaper than Premiere or Final Cut! So it's also an excellent value.

After Effects is a whole different program. After Effects is predominantly a special effects program. You generally don't edit entire movies on it. You usually work on short segments, which you export to Premiere or Final Cut for inclusion in a larger project.

[Paul LS]

Sony Vegas Pro does incorporate some 3d animation similar to Adobe Effects... for example with Sony Vegas Pro it is very easy to create a book opening and page turn animation that moves in 3D. Also for example it is easy to create a spinning cube with the sides unfolding... all that you would normally do in After Effects. That said, After Effects has very much more powerful capabilities then the limited 3d animation features of Vegas Pro.

[MGadAllah]

It seems that adobe is a big monster to beat.

[MGadAllah]

- Later Edit -
This maybe an off topic but the most amazing product I've got from Sony was the sound forge as I did not found any other tool do the same job with the same excellence as sound forge does, isn't it?

[Bob]

Sound Forge competes with Adobe Audition. But, many prefer the Sound Forge interface which many feel is simpler and more intuitive. I think either can do the job.

Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro are probably the two most used NLEs in the industry. Final Cut Pro is only available for the Macintosh platform. Vegas Pro 10 is also good, but doesn't have the market penetration that the other two do. These are all fairly comparable products.

After Effects is a motion graphics and compositing tool, not a NLE, and is by far the most widely used tool of this class. Apple's Motion is similar, but, even on the Macintosh platform After Effects is dominant. Higher end (and more expensive) compositing tools are available, but you generally see those used mainly by the big film effects houses which may also use custom in-house developed tools as well.

Often, the choice of which to use comes down to personal preferences, computing platform, or what the company you work for chose, rather than technical merit.

[MGadAllah]

NLEs

What is that?

[Bob]

NLE is the abbreviation for Non-Linear Editor. In other words, video editors such as Premiere, Final Cut, Vegas, etc..

[MGadAllah]

NLE is the abbreviation for Non-Linear Editor. In other words, video editors such as Premiere, Final Cut, Vegas, etc..

Thanks for the tip.