Since I mainly work on Macs, Puget Systems loaned me one of their custom PCs for this review. These include VEGAS DVD Architect, as well as plug-ins from Boris FX, and New Blue. Magix also offers other apps and add-ons, which are included with some of the other bundles or can be separately purchased. VEGAS POST is available as a perpetual license or through subscription. As a bundle, it’s similar to Adobe Premiere Pro grouped with After Effects and Photoshop. VEGAS Effects shares technology with HitFilm Pro, while VEGAS Image shares a foundation with Imerge Pro. The latter two apps were developed in conjunction with FX Home. Magix sent me VEGAS POST for this review, which bundles the latest VEGAS Pro 17 editing application with VEGAS Effects and VEGAS Image. The VEGAS edit applications may be purchased in a number of versions and bundles, depending on your need and budget.

The sequence shown was imported from Premiere Pro. VEGAS Pro 17 can import sequences from other NLEs using AAF interchange. Along with the VEGAS product line, Magix also handles the other creative apps from the Sonic Foundry/Sony family, including Acid and Sound Forge. Over the years, the software development team moved to Sony (Sony Creative Software) and then to its new home, VEGAS Creative Software, owned by Magix, a German software company. At first VEGAS was a DAW, but video was quickly added, thus turning it into a competitive NLE. One of those is VEGAS Pro, which was originally developed by Sonic Foundry and came to market in 1999.

If you are focused on Media Composer, Premiere Pro, or Final Cut Pro X, then it’s easy to forget that there are a number of other capable NLEs in the wild – especially for the Windows/PC platform.

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