Audio features in NLE's ?

[AudioVideoMaster]

Just wanted to throw this question out for everyone. I've been a Premiere user for quite sometime now, and through it all, I've had to use Premiere and another audio editing program; mostly Sound Forge Studio 5. Now I'm in the market for an upgrade.

:confused: My question: Is there a NLE that has really good range/variety of audio editing features included so I don't have to use two programs?

I mostly do zero budget movie making stuff and home movie stuff but I'm wanting to do some commerical, money making stuff soon, since I'm about to graduate from the university.

I know about the integration of SF and Vegas4...but it's still two programs to load. I'm just trying to find something make the work flow more efficent.

TIA!

[DDogg]

Well Vegas itself is a multitrack audio studio and I have read is used by a lot of indies and other shops to sweeten. All of the DX plugin audio filters you use in SoundForge are there to use and test in real time.

Hey, the demo download is big but free. Maybe give it a try.

[AudioVideoMaster]

Anybody else have any suggestions to help me get a variety of choices?

[Arky]

I'm not a Vegas user, but I can tell you, with some confidence, that, for the money, you will not get a better NLE for sound editing than Vegas 4.0 - it simply blows any other NLE under $2,000 out of the water, for the Audio side of things. You can even author Dolby5.1 soundtracks, with full control over panning (so, for example, you could easily create a soundtrack with a helicopter 'swirling around the room'). I'd have to check up on this, but I seem to recall that such panning is keyframeable. Very cool. I suppose it's not really surprising that Vegas is so hot with Audio, since it is, after all, what Sonic Foundry built their reputation on in the first place.

As a Premiere user, however, you will need to prepare yourself for a different way of working with Video to that which you have grown accustomed. This isn't a bad thing, it's just something to be aware of. Vegas is also dramatically more stable than Premiere (at least, it is in my experience, on Win2k SP0). Vegas has a much brighter future than Premiere, which is now seeing it's traditional (and perhaps a little undeserved) market share decline as hardware-dependency becomes less of an issue with increasing CPU & GPU speeds.


Arky ;o)