There is a feeling of modernisation and streamlining but everything is exactly how we left it.
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I think MAGIX has done a great job of making VEGAS 15 Pro their own without messing things up and I think one of the main consensuses on the forum was that people didn’t want the GUI they had been used to for nearly 15 years being tampered with to the extent that they needed to learn how to use their software all over again. Overall, I really like the new default darker interface but if you don’t, you can choose from four background colour options: Dark, Medium, Light and White and again it shows the thought that MAGIX has put into the software. If you use these functions regularly, having the ability to edit the visible button set so they are visible at the top of a clip is a clever idea and will be a great time saver. The familiar Pan and Crop and FX icons appear as default but here too there is also and a little drop-down menu that contains access to and options to display Generated media, Active take information, Playback Rate, Freeze Frame at Cursor and Selectively Paste event attributes. It might not seem like an impactful difference but this one little change has made it so much easier to work with multiple files and cuts that I suspect over time, I will save hours of searching. I really like this change.īasic functions like importing media are identical, however, when you put a clip on the timeline you now get a heading over each one. This is done on a track by track basis too which means that the entire header section looks clean with only what you need visible until you decide otherwise. It’s now much cleaner by default however, there is a drop-down that will allow you to edit the visible buttons, even the scribble strip is hidden until you click on it.
Another example of customisation is on the video track header. If this doesn’t suit you, customise your own workspace. I will come on to customisation later but you really can make VEGAS 15 Pro YOUR editor.įor example, the trimmer is available on a tab next to the preview but it’s not a feature I use, I prefer to edit directly in the timeline, so I have my workspace set up so that my preview is displayed on a separate monitor to my right, my media and FX are on a third screen on my left which gives me a huge workspace for the timeline and this way I have a sense of the video as a whole. The colour scheme is generally darker by default, something I prefer as it’s easier on the eyes and each of the colourful icons is exactly where it should be. When I first opened the software, I was presented with a new, yet familiar interface, MAGIX had to make this product their own and the interface was an obvious place to start but I was very pleased that they didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. I have been using VEGAS 15 Pro Suite now for several weeks and having spent the last few years using various iterations of VEGAS software I am very familiar with it so felt comfortable jumping straight in but I was also very keen to find out if the numerous requests on the forum had been addressed or if any suggestions made there had transitioned to the product. They had an established product which people knew how to use, they had a large user base still using outdated software because it did what they needed it to do and they had fresher, cheaper competition gunning for a large chunk of their market so it was never going to be an easy task to make VEGAS 15 the must-have video editing software. Getting VEGAS 15 Pro right would be “make or break” in my opinion for MAGIX.
So, with VEGAS 15 Pro in our hands have MAGIX finally shaken off the Sony mantle and how does this, their difficult second album shape up? Last years’ VEGAS 14 is still called Sony VEGAS by most people I talk to, in fact, search for Sony VEGAS on Google or eBay and you will find many results for VEGAS 14.
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