Premiere Pro vs Vegas Pro 20 - Complete Comparison 2022 - Which is the Best Video Editing Software

Vegas has had the feature of joining 2 clips together for years, as well as automatic crossfaded, which I love. I started using Vegas since version 1 and still do to this day. I've tried other NLE software, still continue to test them out as they roll out, but still haven't found anything that allows me to edit clips as fast and intuitively as Vegas does. Not trying to be a fanboy, but I wish that NLE's like Premiere and Davinci Resolve would adopt some of Vegas's features. Editing on the timeline is so much faster and easier in my opinion. Nice review by the way.

Nice comparison however I would include the fact you can buy Vegas outright as opposed to having to go with a monthly sub to Adobe, over time you're gonna pay significantly more with Adobe and never own Premiere.

You can purchase Vegas out right and will not need a subscription. That is not an option with Premiere.

Really appreciate this video. All of the other comparisons I have found, not a single person actually bothered to do a live side by side comparison of the programmes... Deserves more views, for sure.

Is it any good with the footage from sony A7siii? I've been using vegas for more than 10 years. I stopped for a couple of years and now I have new gear and can't decide what to use. Can you tell me if Vegas is good for that 4k footage coming out of the a7siii

Need to supply the specs on the computer you were using for the comparisons of these two software programs as this might be a factor on the crashing aspect????

Yeah, but there's like no graphics transitions really available for Vegas right, most of the best ones are for Premier or Resolve?

This test was done on what processor - ram - gpu please ?

Vegas is best for basic video editing for content creators, pro is for movie makers

I’m by far, BY FAR! A low level editor. And I’m using older products. But here’s my amateur take. I have CS6. And I’m good at quickly doing what I need and going about my day. (Why cs6. I own it. I’m not renting anything.) Now I have a pc running Vegas 15 pro. And whoever old that is, it’s newer than CS6. I shoot things in the mfx file wrapper. For CS6, I needed to buy a separate program for $50 that has since been updated and I need to pay another $40 to update it. (Arcos? Arkos? Whatever) so I need to convert the mfx file from my Canon xc10 to mpeg4 or hvec whatever for Premier Pro to work with it. Vegas 15. Works. Load it in, playback is slower, but plays immediately. 4K at 305mbs. If I had my choice, since I know how to use it. I’d love to stay with Premier Pro. But again, I’m not renting it. I want to own it. For me, I can own Vegas. That’s it for me. And since it’s an upgrade, I can own it for $49-79 depending on the sale. If you’re worried about money. Go with DaVinci. It’s free. It works. It’s… not great for me. If you have an apple and never want to worry about it. Get Final Cut. You own it. You could have bought it in 2011 and it’s still updated and supported since then. 11 years. One price. Once adobe went to pay to play, I go off the bus. Of all of them… I think Final Cut is the most user friendly. Premier Pro is the second. Vegas is… okay. DaVinci. No clue what’s happening. I can make simple edits in it. But opening it and using it. Nope. Have to watch a 45 minute long tutorial first.

I use Vegas Pro for Youtube because is fast and easy to use .... and it edits and renders ProRes.

May I say... • Vegas was not doing 4K playback. It says right below the preview panel that the preview is 1080p even though the original file was 4k. So it shows you a FHD proxy. You could put a 12K video there and it would have been the same. On the other hand Premiere Pro handled Full Resolution playback of the 4k clip nicely. • Rendering the video in both programs is easy. You can go up to the menu bar and then go File -> Render or File -> Export Media. On Premiere I always type Ctrl+Shift+M and then I always render inside premiere. It's just easy. Easy af. • The tracks on premiere are adjustable via the scrolling wheel in a combination with a key like alt or shift, I don't remember exactly. It is nice cause it gives you a better view of your timeline when working on multiple tracks. Although I should say, I prefer the size of the tracks on Vegas for simple edits when you don't use more than 3 tracks... In vegas you can easily see your video, your audio and everything. Until your tracks fill the entire screen. • The fade in and fade out is VERY easy on Vegas, but moving things and keyframing isn't. If premiere would just add this it would have been so awesome... • The transition between two clips on vegas is amazing really

I am such a Vegas fanboy I can't comment

Ive been watching most of your videos recently. I was very happy to see that you recognize VEGAS PRO as even a software worth comparing. Ive been using Vegas Pro for the past 15 years roughly. Will a R7 5700g with 32MB 3200mhz RAM be able to give smooth timeline performance ? On a mere i3 6100 Vegas pro timeline scrubbing with 4K GH5 footage is slight sticky and with effects added we need to go to DRAFT > QUARTER to see the video at maybe realtime framerate, during renders it uses the processor 100%. But when timeline scrubbing etc its not using the processor more than 50% and the IGPU is at 7% while its stuttering, then why stutter, all the media is on NVME and SSD that too. What gives ? I only want better timeline performance....so will my 5700g work at least twice better than this i3 ? Your comment will help as i need to upgrade now.

this brings me back i learned to edit video in general on vegas 4.0 back in school in 2003 i want to say. As someone who deicded to look back into some editing work and testing stuff out now Premiere pro and divinci resolve piss me off lol. As does all this subscription non sense (though i see purchase options for everything but adobe).

What are your computer specs?

where's the best place to get templates for vegaa

Vegas pro 20 FTW!

honestly, 99% of the videos we watch on Youtube can be edited with Vegas pro easily. Using Adobe Premiere Pro for most of the basic videos we see its like going after a fly with a Bazooka.

Someone should combine the speed of Premiere Pro and the User Interface of Vegas Pro together into one program...