On a huge Iron Man-Avengers-Batman-Anything-James Cameron-or-Peter-Jackson-make extravaganza, forget about it.upwards of ten people all sitting at editing machines working on the same movie. Even a small feature will have an editor, an assistant editor, probably an apprentice, and maybe a VFX editor. There are really 2 things that Avid does that make it better suited for "high end" work: media management, and collaborative architecture. Januat 2:26PM, Edited September 4, 8:45AM Now if you've used Vegas without problem, congrats! But my experience with any project of intermediate to advanced complexity results in many hours of wasted time. All Vegas users are beta-testers for Sony. Vegas could be so much better but the management at Sony Creative are more interested in regular Vegas updates to earn money, that they don't care how many bugs are in their database.
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At least Vegas 12 made it possible to save in a few other formats that made projects more portable to other applications, but I've wasted so many hours on Vegas forums, beta testing and logging bugs with Sony, and seen them release buggy after buggy version. Round trip edits of After Effect elements. Subscribe to Creative Cloud and you get so much more than the Vegas suite can offer. Premiere is so much more stable and so much more consistent with it's interface. And while Premiere has it's bugs as well, and Vegas's basic editing controls are very intuitive. Vegas has gotten so buggy in recent releases that I've had to switch to Premiere. I was (am?) a long time Vegas user and have to disagree. Link: Video Editing NLE Market Share Breakdown - Learning DSLR Video So which NLE editor or editors are you using right now and for what kinds of projects? Whether you're a fan of Avid, Final Cut, Premiere, or Vegas, one thing is for sure: they all have their pros and cons that can fit into different workflows. My own informal surveys and the user base of this website both indicate that as well.
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It should be noted that this is probably a more selective sample size either way, and just because your personal NLE of choice might not be the most popular in the survey, that doesn't necessarily say anything about its usefulness.īased on a lot of opinions about the Adobe CC payment model, CS6 will probably hang on a bit longer than Final Cut 7 has, but certainly the industry has seen a large shift swing Adobe's way thanks to FCP X turning away many faithful Final Cut Pro 7 users. Avid still has a huge market share in Hollywood, but more broadly in the video world, Premiere has very strong numbers.
Even accounting for some issues with the survey that Dave mentioned, these numbers seem like a pretty good indication of where the market is right now.