


It is weak in editing because too many workarounds have to be employed for missing editing tools. As much as the company markets it for both editing and composite software, their tutorials are always on visual effects and creating custom titles. Interesting to note, last year's investment in HitFilm Pro 2017 is worth the money. The new 18 cores and i9s will be needed for future software down the road. Quad Cores seem to get by with the new software.

I suspect more software in the future will be coming out like Magix Vegas Pro that dual core computers can handle less and less. Namely, the book trailer video files.Ĭonclusion: Dual Cores are yesterday's editing computers. I have also notice some 1080p video files may play smooth on my i7 quad core HP Omen and quad core i5 iMac with 8 Gigs, but my Windows 8 Desktop with a dual core G2020 with 8 Gigs of RAM has choppy playback at the beginning of files.

That's why I optioned to get my laptop with a 2 TB hard drive. MS Office eats up another 8 Gigs of hard drive space and so on. So, if you have a laptop with a small SSD drive, be warned. I have the full version suite and it eats up 9 Gigs of hard drive space. I would suggest to anyone interested in even trying the demo of Vegas Pro 15 to run it on a quad core processor computer with 16 Gigs of RAM. The best solution to get my short as far as I did was to use Adobe Premiere Elements to the editing program and Vegas Pro as the compositing program to stop the freeze ups and crashes. I ran it on a dual core 2 laptop with 3 Gigs of memory on a Sony Laptop. Biggest problem with version 8 was it wants to be both an editing program as well as a compositing program. I used Sony Vegas Pro 8 from 2008 through 2012 to edit a feature film as well as my unfinished short film.
