I have been learning Vegas Studio with Steve's book, but have to say I like the book more than the program. Although if the program worked on my computer, I would like it just fine. Lots of error messages, etc. And my computer is buff enough that it should handle high def files okay. It does not. Vegas crashes constantly. (Works fine with non HD files. Computer is a quad core with 8 gigs of RAM) I downloaded the trial of Vegas Pro and it is rendering and running like a charm.(I imported some large pre-rendered files that I couldn't get to work in Studio). If that's what I need to do things right, I don't mind paying the extra bucks. I'm wondering, though, if I will need another book to learn Pro. How similar are they two programs in terms of functionality? Is there a good book by Steve, or something else, that is the equivalent of the book for Studio?
Anybody else had problems with the Studio version seemingly not able to access the RAM efficiently?