Vegas Pro lifetime?

[kitekrazy]

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/vegas-pro/#id-order-boxes-section

I wonder what that means.

It seems there's confusion and maybe independence since the Boris takeover.

For me confused.

[kitekrazy]

misleading marketing

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/helllo-dear-sir-lifetime-license-option--141873/

[dubdisciple]

Am I mistaken, but doesn't this just mean that you get to use your license perpetually, but you only get updates for a year?  I'm cool with that. It's obviously not as cool as getting lifetime updates, but lifetime updates was never a universal thing.  As long as it's stable before they stop updates, I'm good . With that said, my perpetual license for Davinci Resolve has been through multiple versions and updates for free.  Probably because Black Magic is a hardware company pretty much giving our software to encourage you to buy high end hardware where as Vegas os a software company trying to sell a pro level software at a profit that is probably at best ranked 5th among pros .  They could probably phrase things better, but it's hardly the worst licensing agreement though.

[kitekrazy]

If you have v23, all updates for that version are free

misleading

If you buy an Image-Line product all updates, upgrades are free - FL Studio

enough of the free update nonsense - it's rare for a paid update.  Even Steinberg ditched that.

Edited 20 hours ago by kitekrazy

[Bass Guitar]

The phrase "Lifetime" is often used with software to tell you that the license will not expire. It doesn't say "Lifetime Updates. " 

We only heard that once from Gibson didn't we. And the Term Lifetime is not an exact science. 

That link is above takes you to a way overpriced deal. this is what is currently on the web site. I'm tempted because the last upgrade for me to 21 had a lot of improvements, especially in stability. It rarely crashes anymore. I know it's not the top of the heap, but neither is Sonar. I like it's Daw like interface. And the fact you can open the audio tracks in a wave editor. I have it set for Wave Lab. 

[Amberwolf]

If you're up for just the previous version, 22, it's in a humble bundle for the next couple weeks. Lots cheaper than the manufacturer site. 

 

[mettelus]

8 hours ago, dubdisciple said:

With that said, my perpetual license for Davinci Resolve has been through multiple versions and updates for free.  Probably because Black Magic is a hardware company pretty much giving our software to encourage you to buy high end hardware where as Vegas os a software company trying to sell a pro level software at a profit that is probably at best ranked 5th among pros . 

+1, there are a few hardware manufacturers that tailor software around the hardware they make, so if you buy hardware from them, the software is often thrown in. There has always been the debate if Resolve Studio will ever not be "perpetual," but so far it has always been. HELIX Native is another one that sometimes (not always) can be gotten for free (more often at a huge discount) depending on the current sale of HELIX hardware (read the current HELIX Native offer linked to HELIX's to know).

One nifty, light-weight, 3D-capable video editor that will totally fly under the radar for most is "Insta360 Studio," which you must own one of Insta360's cameras to register/use (is totally free, and updated often). That has both a mobile and desktop version that will link with (and control) the camera in real time as well, but is part of the "hardware bundle," so there is no standalone software version of it. With 3D videos specifically, there is also a Windows Explorer plugin to preview 3D videos without opening an app to do so (saving time and overhead with browsing). Resolve Studio has much more processing power (and FX) for editing, and is required over Resolve FREE since 3D video is over 4K, but many of the tools needed to edit and "flat print" 3D videos are right there in Insta360 Studio (although Resolve Studio is nice for finishing touches, but not "required"). Being able to rough edit 3D video on a phone is rather wild.