Vegas Pro 20 Launched

Vegas Pro is a great alternative to the likes of Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Davinci Resolve. I’ve mentioned it a few times on my show because it offers quite a few tools aimed at making video editing a much simpler task for consumers and prosumers. Today Vegas Pro 20 has launched.

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What’s new?

The update focuses on color correction and color grading tools, VFX features as well as advanced audio production as mentioned in the press release snippet below.

  • Hue Adjustment curves in the Color Grading Panel

  • White Balance controls in the Color Grading Panel

  • Enhanced Audio Workflow support, currently in beta, including:

    • VST3 Support for audio editing (Beta, general availability TBA)

    • VST 32-bit bridge that enables support for older, 32-bit VST audio plug-ins (Beta, general availability TBA)

  • New Effects features, including:

    • Optical Flow mode for Warp Flow and Smart Split

    • Real-time Optical Flow for the Slow Motion FX

    • Automatic region creation in Scene Detection

    • Honeycomb and Color Planes presets for GL transitions

  • Workflow efficiency features such as:

    • Normalize button for events

    • Fade In/Out included in Paste Event Attributes

Vegas Pro 20 will cost you $19.99 per month via a subscription or you can get a perpetual license for $399. More info on the update can be found on the Vegas Creative website here.

VEGAS Teams Up with Razer

Video creators looking to get a new Razor laptop may have a juicy incentive. The squad at VEGAS Creative is sweetening the pot with a FREE SIX MONTH subscription to VEGAS Post with the purchase of a qualifying Razer laptop if ordered by June 30, 2022.

Razer has been pretty popular in the gaming world for several years, which means that if you can do some extreme gaming on a device, there’s a likelihood that content creation can be quite snappy on the device. Usually, when you see a Razer laptop or desktop, it’s all RGB’d-up, but the internal components are usually those needed in handling high bandwidth video processing. All at a nice price.

The VEGAS Post package includes the following tools aimed to help out the content creators looking for a new rig:

VEGAS Pro 19 editing software

  • 100GB of cloud storage

  • VEGAS Effects software for high-end compositing

  • VEGAS Image software for RAW image compositing

  • VEGAS Stream for high-production-value live streaming

  • VEGAS Content: Unlimited access to royalty-free HD and 4K video and/or audio clip downloads

  • SOUND FORGE Audio Studio

  • BorisFX Primatte chroma keying software

I’ve been playing around with Vegas Pro for video editing for my show and also been playing with BorisFX. There’s even a free Particle Illusion application from Boris FX that’s free and absolutely AMAZING for creating custom particle effects on your video. At some point, I’ll share some tutorials with that software.

To get the deal, order your Razer machine and follow the instructions on the image below. More information on the promo can be found here

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Vegas Creative Software Gets Updated

Am I an Adobe Creative Cloud user? Yup. Unapologetically. Am I someone that looks into other software tools that can help me with my content creation? Yup. So yeah, there are some other apps in the video creation world beyond Adobe Premiere Pro, One of those options being Vegas, which has been recently been updated.

All about the color grade

Last year, Vegas Creative had a big push in using AI in the creative workflow. In the latest release, version 19, the push is more about tweaking the user experience in addition to harnessing the power of AI and the cloud. More on the cloud in a moment.

Vegas 19 has added a more intuitive design of its app with a new color grading interface designed to make the color grading experience more efficient. The new color wheels are range-limited with precision control so you can target certain hues and tones to make your grade pop on the screen. Vegas Creative has also included 40 professionally developed LUTs based on different cameras and trendy looks seen in films today.

Image: Vegas Creative

Image: Vegas Creative

Unlike what I mentioned regarding Premiere Pro’s recent update, Vegas Pro video editor touts a text TO speech engine. Not the other way around. This tool generates natural-sounding voices from any text source fed into it. I’ve not tried this, but it sounds pretty badass. It’s only available in the Pro and Post package, by the way. Also, if you’re a Blackmagic Design shooter like me, Vegas Creative has announced beta support for the BRAW codec. THAT’s awesome. Raw video is so much better in post-processing when it comes to color grading and dynamic range.

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So what’s the price of this stuff?

Pricing for Vegas Creative software varies upon each product SKU. You’re not locked to a subscription model, but you can choose to be a subscriber if you’d like. Each package includes cloud storage depending upon which package you choose. Vegas Edit is $12.99 per month or $249 for a perpetual license. Vegas Pro is $19.99 per month or $399 for a perpetual license. Vegas Post is $29.99 per month or $599 for a perpetual license. You can see a comparison between the packages here. All the other specs and goodies are listed there. It’s pretty extensive.