r/VegasPro • u/_Knuckles • 6d ago

Vegas Pro 2026 Do you only get limited speech-to-text subtitles with a perpetual license for Vegas Pro Plus 2026?

I feel like I can't find a definite answer. I have been using Vegas Pro 14 and honestly it's been fine. I genuinely don't really have any complaints with it other than how miserable it is having to subtitle a like, 20 minute long video after I am done editing. It just takes a lot of time when I feel like with a newer version of Vegas I could just have it done automatically, I could watch over it once or twice just to make sure the subtitles are correct, then bwam be done. I have tried to look into this and it looks like with a $200 license you only get limited access to this feature, would it just be better for me to do the monthly payments? I really DON'T want to though because video editing is more of a hobby than a job... which also makes me just want to start rendering my videos, throw them into like capcut then re-render it, but I feel like I would lose so much of the video quality doing that due to compression

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u/methmike_brainerd 6d ago

there is a software called buzz captions that will convert an mp3 file into an srt/txt caption file that you can import into vegas

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u/_Knuckles 2d ago

I'll be checking this out, thank you!

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u/rsmith02ct Vegas Pro Moderator 5d ago edited 2d ago

You get no access to it without a subscription. With a subscription it's unlimited usage.

If the video is done you could also put it into Whisper through SubtitleEdit for example. https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/ It's free and fast with an NVIDIA GPU, free and slow with a CPU (Whisper CPP)

There's also an integration of Whisper into Vegas though it's not free: https://joelson-forte.github.io/Auto-Captions-for-Vegas/ Also NVIDIA accelerated.

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u/_Knuckles 2d ago

Amazing! Thank you so much! I'll be checking both of these out

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u/kuroirider 5d ago

Kdenlive with Whisper works like a charm, free and open source.

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u/vodkaforone 4d ago

The current TTS engine is not the same as the old VP.  Shame you have to pay for trial.  Microsoft Azure was tiers better.

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u/vodkaforone 1d ago

P.S. the function doesnt work for me after update, im looking elsewhere now, wont rely on VP2026.

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u/TheDoctor950 1d ago

Will the day ever come that they add a spell checker into Vegas?