Final Cut Pro X
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Adobe Premiere CC
Avid Media Composer
Sony Vegas
Which is best?
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Adobe Premiere CC
Avid Media Composer
Sony Vegas
Which is best?
From an audio stand-point, however, Vegas does not play well with other programs. I have had little success importing OMF and/or AAF files that were originally generated by Vegas. Many of my peers make the same complaint.
I exported the audio from Vegas to Aiffs and setup a beep tone marker in the beginning of clip, separating the audio into four files, voice, music, and two sound effects for a post audio house and they made it work on their Macs with Protools. I struck out the original audio and replaced it with their Aiff final cut.
I followed their instructions on how to prepare the audio from Sony Vegas as separate Aiffs for voice, music, and two sound effects, and their final cut with Protools was cut as an Aiff I imported with Sony Vegas, MOS the other audio,, lined up the beep to a marker, and had perfect Dolby Surround 5.1 audio.
Thats interesting, considering it's audio roots. Vegas originated from Sonic Foundry which was aiming to make a NLE that was super audio friendly and had a layout familiear to audio pros.
Of all the various audio post workflows, printing out Aiffs (or Wavs) is by far the worst for a whole host of reasons. The reason this workflow was suggested to you is because it is the only reliable way of getting audio out of Vegas and into Pro Tools. This is not such a serious problem if all you are doing is a short which is a few minutes long but with a longer project where something approaching professional audio standards are required, it will become a massive problem, potentially a project killing problem! I think it's likely that your idea of "perfect" Dolby 5.1 audio is quite a long way away from the film/TV industry's concept of perfect.They wouldn't have TV and radio studios coming back to them if they did substandard work.
They threw out several of my sound effects and replaced them because of sound reproduction problems and replaced the music with their own. They were going to replace the music anyway because it was in my agreement with them.
The audio for the dialogue was recorded in a recording studio and the results were good quality.
They when over everything with me and told me why they replaced sections of the audio.
Even as Sonic Foundry, it was never an audio tool used by audio post pros. Today, Vegas is certainly one of the worst NLEs when it comes to professional workflows.
To the OP: As ever, it depends what you want the NLE for. If you are always going to do the audio yourself and never aim towards professional/commercial standards then Vegas could well be the best NLE for you. If you are looking eventually to create commercial quality films/TV content then you will need something which will allow for professional audio workflows and for that Avid MC is best.
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