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Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum software has everything needed to produce spectacular HD movies. Edit video in nearly any format including HDV and AVCHD. Powerful features for video compositing, color correction, and soundtrack creation help you get feature-film results in your home studio. Use the surround sound mixing tools to create 5.1 soundtracks. Choose from hundreds of professional 2D and 3D video effects, titles, and filters. Upload movies to YouTube™, burn to Blu-ray Disc™, or author DVDs using beautifully designed themes or your own custom menus and graphics. Exclusive Sony Show Me How interactive tutorials help you get started fast.
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Latest version: 11 Build 322 (April 25, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site Supported operating systems: Windows
More information and other downloads: Former known as SonicFoundry VideoFactory. Former known as Screenblast Movie Studio. Sections/Browse similar tools: Video Editors (Advanced/NLE) |
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Notable fixes/changes in version 11.0 (Build 322) Hide changelog Resolved an issue in the MainConcept AVC/AAC Custom Settings dialog that caused some controls to remain available when Include video was not selected. Fixed an issue rendering Low Complexity AAC QuickTime files. Fixed an issue that could prevent the Custom Settings dialog from displaying for QuickTime rendering templates. Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when rendering to AVI format when Include video was not selected in the Custom Settings dialog. Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when opening certain FLAC files. Fixed a bug that could cause HDV renders to contain incorrect metadata. Fixed a bug that could cause video plug in controls to be displayed incorrectly after adjusting a parameter beyond its normal range. Fixed a bug that could cause inconsistencies with the timeline cursor when entering a value in a video plug-in's Cursor Position box. Fixed a bug that could cause preset thumbnails for video effects to display incorrectly. Fixed a bug that could cause the Titles & Text plug-in to crash when editing shadows. Fixed a bug that could cause the Tools > Burn Disc > Blu-ray Disc command to be unavailable. Fixed a bug that prevented the Normal metronome sound from being displayed in Preferences > Audio. Fixed a bug that could prevent Show Me How tutorials from being displayed in French installations of Vegas Movie Studio. Notable fixes/changes in version 11.0 (Build 295) Updated Sony AVC format render template customization to support AVCHD 2.0. Added a Blu-ray AVC setting to the Video format drop-down list in the Customize Settings dialog, allowing you to customize Sony AVC render templates for Blu-ray Disc. The Tools > Burn Disc > Blu-ray Disc with Menus command is unavailable when working with 5.1 surround projects. Fixed an issue that caused 5.1 surround AVCHD rendering templates to be available when working with a stereo project. Fixed an issue that could create duplicate tracks when switching a project from stereo to 5.1 surround. Fixed a bug that could prevent Vegas Movie Studio from reading 5.1-channel AAC audio correctly. Fixed a bug that could cause the Slideshow Creator to display images from a previous project. Fixed audio issues that could occur when rendering to Windows Media Video format. Notable fixes/changes in version 11.0 (Build 283) Added rendering templates to support the Sony Tablet. When rendering to the MainConcept AVC/AAC format, choose Sony Tablet 1080p or Sony Tablet 720p. Vegas Movie Studio can now address up to 4 GB of memory when running on a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows 7. When using the Upload to YouTube dialog, tags must be at least two characters long. The Upload button is unavailable if your tag is shorter than two characters. Fixed a bug that could prevent markers and regions from being saved with projects in some instances. Fixed a bug in the Titles & Text plug-in that could degrade preview frame rates when using Shadow Enable. Fixed a bug in the Titles & Text plug-in that excluded vertical fonts. Fixed various bugs in the Titles & Text plug-in involving keyframes. Fixed a bug in the Titles & Text plug-in that could cause inconsistent line spacing after line breaks. Fixed a bug that could cause unexpected changes in plug-in order when adding or removing effects. Fixed a bug that could prevent .MPG files from loading when the file name or folder contained Japanese characters. Fixed a bug that could change the output frame size when rendering to a Blu-ray Disc template with a frame rate of 24.000 fps. Fixed a bug that could occur when rendering to Sony AVC/MVC format using the Memory Stick templates. Fixed a bug that could cause the audio stream to be excluded after editing a Sony AVC/MVC Blu-ray Disc rendering template. Fixed a bug that prevented Vegas Movie Studio from displaying an error message when attempting to install to a hard drive that does not contain sufficient free space. Please ensure your hard drive has 400 MB available before beginning installation. Fixed a crash that could occur when using the RE:Vision Effects ClampTime plug-in. Fixed a crash that could occur when rendering QuickTime 56 Kbps or 100 Kbps video. Notable fixes/changes in version 11.0 (Build 247) The Burn Blu-ray Disc feature has been updated for compliance with the Blu-ray Disc specification. You can render 3D projects to a Blu-ray 3D Disc image file (.iso) from the timeline (Tools > Burn Disc > Blu-ray Disc). This feature is intended for commercial BD-ROM preparation testing. What's New in Version 11.0 Video Stereoscopic 3D editing, upload to YouTube 3D, and 3D Blu-ray Disc burning. New Titles & Text plug-in. New video plug-in SDK with updated controls for keyframe animation. Added support for 50p and 60p projects, capture, and print to tape: Project templates: HD 720-50p (1280x720, 50 fps), HD 720-60p (1280x720, 59.94 fps) Audio Audio event effects. Workflow A fully updated Render As dialog that streamlines the rendering process and makes it easy to manage your favorite render templates. Improved usability of the Trimmer and Video Preview windows with the addition of transport controls. Press Alt+Down Arrow during playback to move the edit cursor to the playback cursor location for editing or recording. Device Explorer improvements: You can now right-click a clip in the Device Explorer window and choose Open in Trimmer or Import and Add to Project to choose how you want to import clips. You can now drag clips from the Device Explorer to the Project Media or Trimmer window. You can now change the location for creating prerendered files from the Print to Tape Wizard. New Microsoft Image Mastering API (IMAPI) disc drivers for DVD and Blu-ray Disc burning. Improved usability of the Make Movie Wizard. Formats Improved performance when reading QuickTime AVC and QuickTime AVC/H.264 video (such as video shot with digital SLR cameras). Added support for reading MVC video. Added support for rendering MVC video with the Sony AVC/MVC plug-in. Added support for reading MPO (multiple picture object) 3D still images and sweep panorama images. Improved support for GPU-accelerated AVC rendering using the Sony AVC/MVC plug-in. NVIDIA GPUs GPU-accelerated AVC rendering requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and NVIDIA driver 185.xx or later with a GeForce GT 2xx Series or newer GPU. For more information about CUDA-enabled GPUs, please see http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html. ATI GPUs OpenCL GPU-accelerated rendering requires an OpenCL-enabled ATI GPU and AMD Radeon Catalyst driver 11.2 or later with an ATI Radeon HD 57xx or newer GPU (please see Known Issues regarding an incompatibility with driver version 11.3 and 11.4). We recommend using . If using an ATI FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.773 or later is required. For more information about OpenCL-enabled GPUs, please see http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/Pages/desktop-graphics.aspx. GPU-accelerated rendering performance will vary depending on your specific hardware configuration. If you have an older CPU and a newer GPU, rendering using the GPU may improve render times. Full 24p support. Support for rendering .mov files with multichannel audio. What's New in Version 10.0 Video * Up to 10 video tracks. * Image stabilization for video clips. * White Balance video plug-in. * Secondary Color Corrector plug-in. * Subclips in the Trimmer window. * Vegas Movie Studio can now automatically adjust the video preview size and quality to optimize frame rate during preview. Right-click the Video Preview window and select Adjust Size and Quality for Optimal Playback if you want to emphasize frame rate during preview. When the command is not selected, video quality is emphasized, and the frame rate will be reduced if necessary. * Select the Adjust source media to better match project or render settings check box on the Video tab of the Project Properties dialog to enable Vegas Movie Studio to make minor changes to your source media properties — including cropping/padding frame size or adjusting interlacing — to allow media files to work better with your project. Audio * Up to 10 audio tracks. * Enhanced audio event timestretch and pitch shifting with élastique Pro. * Audio-only edits (such as event moves, trims, and ASR times) are no longer quantized to frame boundaries by default when Quantize to Frames is enabled. If you want to quantize audio-only edits, clear the Do not quantize to frames for audio-only edits check box on the Preferences > Editing tab. * Audio-waveform drawing during recording has been improved: o Recorded waveforms are now updated at a faster rate. o 16-bit peak files are used for increased resolution. o The entire waveform is now visible during recording. o Peaks no longer need to be built when recording is completed. Workflow * Streamlined new project creation. * The Vegas Movie Studio interface uses a new, darker color palette. * Window layouts. * Device Explorer window for importing video from AVCHD cameras and CompactFlash-based memory recording units such as the HVR-MRC1. * Slideshow Creator. * Integrated DVD burning from the timeline (Tools > Burn Disc > DVD). * In the Save As dialog, the Copy media with project check box now copies only media files that are saved outside of the project folder; media files in folders below the project folder are no longer copied. * In the Video Media Generators dialog, you can now click the Match Event Length button to set the length of the generated media to match the length of the event. * Hold Alt+Shift while dragging inside an event to slip-trim the right edge of an event. * Hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking an event to split it. You can then drag from that point to trim the event in the direction you drag (eraser mode). * You can now slip all of an event's takes when slipping an event (choose Slip All Takes from the Options menu). * You can hold Ctrl (or hold the right mouse button) for fine control while adjusting the sustain portion of event envelopes. * Time selection envelope editing (adjusts multiple envelope points within a time selection for quick audio ducking). * You can now choose to automatically crop still images to match your project's output aspect ratio. * In the Render As dialog, templates that match your project settings (frame size, pixel aspect ratio, and frame rate) are displayed with an = symbol in the Template drop-down list. * Holding the Shift key while dragging now enables snapping if Enable Snapping is turned off. * When you drag a group of selected events, the first and last event now snap to other snap points on the timeline. * Pressing ` (grave accent) no longer restores track height for tracks that were previously minimized. Formats * Custom rendering templates for all video formats. * Updated project and rendering templates for Internet distribution. * Added 23.979 fps (IVTC) settings for the Project Properties dialog, Media Properties dialog, and timeline ruler. * Improved support for AVC/AAC (.mp4) video. * Support for GPU-accelerated AVC rendering using the Sony AVC plug-in. Notable fixes/changes in version 9.0b * Improved HDV/AVCHD reading. * Improved support for MPJEG-encoded AVI files. * Fixed a bug that prevented Vegas Movie Studio from opening the audio streams of MPEG-2 files that use stereo AC-3 encoding. * Fixed a problem that could prevent the application from opening. * Fixed a problem with M2TS files that could cause a crash after playback. * Fixed a bug that prevented the LFE channel from being read from some 5.1-channel AVCHD files. * Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when rendering to some AVCHD formats. * Fixed a problem reading some FLAC files. Notable fixes/changes in version 9.0a * Added support for rendering 1920x1080 AVCHD video (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only). * Improved AVCHD playback performance. * Resolved an issue that could cause AVCHD import to overwrite existing imported clips. * Fixed the ruler format for PAL projects. * Improved stability when working with projects containing multiple MPEG video clips. * Added Japanese, French, German, and Spanish language support. What's New in Version 9.0 * Updated New Project and Make Movie Wizards. * Improved native HDV .m2t playback performance and improved memory handling for HDV longform projects. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only) * Sony HDV true progressive 24p support. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only) * Import from Memory Recording Unit. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only) * Import from AVCHD camcorder. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only) * Support for editing files recorded with Sony AVCHD camcorders. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only) * Support for Sony Cinescore™ Studio music-generation plug-in. * Single-monitor full-screen video preview. * Burn timeline to Blu-ray Disc™. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only) * Upload to YouTube. * Added support for reading 1920x1080 AVCHD video. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only) * Smart rendering support for MPEG-2 video. * Support for opening MJPEG-encoded AVI files (such as video recorded with a digital still camera). * Support for opening and rendering FLAC files. * Support for LPEC files imported from Digital Voice Editor software. * High-quality H.264 AVC/AAC import and export (including HD support). Includes templates for Sony WALKMAN® and Apple iPod® . Notable Fixes/Changes in Version 8.0c * Added support for Panasonic AVCHD files. * Fixed a bug that caused the video stream on some .mov files to not play. Notable Fixes/Changes in Version 8.0b * Added support for MJPEG-encoded AVI files. * Added Spanish language support. * Fixed a bug that could cause 1080p HDV clips to default to 1.000 pixel aspect ratio. * Fixed a bug that could cause image corruption in the Red-Eye Reduction window with Windows Vista™. Whatďż˝s New in Version 8.0 * Enhanced video preview. * Full-screen preview to a secondary Windows display (including DVI monitors). * Insert I-frames at marker positions when rendering MPEG-2 (works in conjunction with I-frame viewer in DVD Architect Studio 4.5). * Support for editing files recorded with Sony AVCHD camcorders (only in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8.0). * Improved native HDV .m2t playback performance and improved memory handling for HDV longform projects (only in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition 8.0). * Multithreaded audio engine maximizes real-time audio playback and rendering performance - more tracks and effects with lower latency. * Support for opening and rendering ATRAC3ďż˝, ATRAC3plusďż˝, and ATRAC Advanced Losslessďż˝ files. * Gracenoteďż˝ MusicIDďż˝ technology for extracted audio from CDs. * Improved snapping ďż˝ color-coded visual snap indicator and the ability to snap to event edges on other tracks. * Display of media marker names in events. * Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline. Notable Fixes/Changes in Version 7.0a * A bug has been fixed that caused 5.1 surround projects to save audio in only the front channels when using the Make Movie Wizard to burn your project to DVD. What's New in Version 7.0 * Export video to PSPďż˝ (PlayStationďż˝Portable) * You can now export Sony AVC/AAC (also called H.264 or MPEG-4 AVC). * MainConcept AVC/AAC codec. You can use this plug-in to import H.264 video in your projects and to render H.264 video to Apple iPodďż˝ video format). * 5.1 surround support. * Support has been added for opening and rendering ATRAC3ďż˝, ATRAC3plusďż˝, and ATRAC Advanced Losslessďż˝ files. * Stereo and 5.1-channel AC-3 rendering. * Cut/copy/delete operations can be applied to grouped events. 6.0b No changelog Notable Fixes/Changes in Version 6.0a * VR-mode discs are now supported when importing video from a finalized Sony DVD Handycamďż˝ camcorder disc. Please see Known Issues for additional information. * A problem has been fixed that could cause problems when reading AVI files with MP3-encoded audio. * New widescreen and DVD templates have been added to the New Project Wizard. * A Use widescreen DVD format check box has been added to the Burn it to DVD portion of the Make Movie Wizard. 6.0 Top 5 New Features * Import video from DVD Handycamďż˝ other DVD camcorders * Real-time audio and video event reverse: Reverse audio and video events on the timeline in real time, no rendering required. * Tape-style audio scrubbing: Quickly scrub through your video to find specific sections. * Native VST effect and DirectXďż˝ audio plug-in support increases your options for effects you can apply to your audio tracks. * ACID loop support: Video scoring and audio mixing is easier than ever with ACID loop support. ACID loops contain special meta data that enables Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software to easily match tempo and key in real time. Notable changes in 4.0a * A bug that prevented some CD drives from extracting audio from CDs has been fixed. * A bug has been fixed that could cause corrupted audio to be created when using the Make Movie Wizard to burn a DVD. * A bug has been fixed that could cause the application to crash if you added Video Output FX and then used the Undo command to remove the effects. * A bug that prevented the Pixelate plug-in from processing video has been fixed
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I have used various editors including Vegas Movie Studio (VMS), Pinnacle Studio (7,8 and 9), and Cyberlink Power Director 3. Let me tell you how refreshing it is to use such a powerful and STABLE editor like VMS. I have spent many frustrated nights using Pinnacles Studio and now that Sony has replaced MyDVD with their own DVD Architect, I have finally uninstalled Power Director and removed the Pinnacle infestation from my computer. VMS has features like chromakey, and PiP that the others dont have or charge extra in a "plus" version. All render high quality video but VMS rendering engine is the fastest.
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9.0b still doesn't burn working BD5 or BD9 disks that play in a player. Back to doing it with Nero...
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$50 well spent, especially if you use a Sony camcorder. I also have a older (v 6.5) version of Premiere, and Vegas Movie compares very favorably with it as a professional-style editor that isn't so dumbed down that it becomes limiting. (Of course, Vegas works much faster and accepts more formats than does my old Premiere that was made before WinXP.) I was delighted to find that Vegas Movie can do many things that one would expect only a much more expensive, "professional" editor to do. For example, it can do transparent overlays, like if you want to place a watermark on your video. One problem that I experienced with Vegas Movie is that sometimes, when I click the main timeline preview Play button, it will cause my computer to freeze while it runs through the entire movie, and the computer remains frozen until I reboot it. However, I learned from experience that this can be prevented by minimizing all of the tracks, making the movie preview window small and "draft option" in appearance, and turning off all unneeded programs that may be running in the background. My computer system is an older one that has been through many upgrades, so that may have something to do with this issue. I mention the solution here in case anyone else encounters that problem. Other programs I have used in addition to Premiere include several versions of MainActor, VideoEdit, Windows Movie Maker, VideoWave, and some I can't remember. So far, Vegas Movie is the best of them all. I should mention that I use the excellent free QuickMediaConverter to convert VOB files for use with Vegas Movie.
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I have edited programs with Adobe Premiere 6.1 and Premiere Elements 3. Beginning last week, I started using Sony Vegas Studio to edit my current project. I found one huge defect that results in a program failure due to memory leakage. It took me two days to learn how to avoid this crash... Do not show AVCHD program media in thumbnail view. Use list view instead. But this caveat notwithstanding, the program is very stable. The large number of effects and filters are excellent. My congratulations to the designers and programmers. My only disappointment is that the maximum source count is four. At least one more video and audio timeline source should be made available.
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Of course there is a "scene view" box. Top left menu bar select View, in drop down menu click Video Preview.Scene view box will appear bottom right of screen. Vegas Movie Studio might not have everything but it works and your computer does not crash.
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I downloaded the trial version of this software in order to compare with Adobe Premier Elements 3.0 trial. I must admit I found the Sony Vegas Movie Studio software to be a bit limited. Apart from the inexcusable absense of MPEG-2 bitrate control (even the dreaded Roxio has this), editing is quite limited with only 3 video + 3 audio tracks and no "scene" view (ie timeline only). Adobe Premier Elements seems to be vastly better as it has none of these limitations and even allows more advanced features such as moving path editing of one object over another. However, where the Sony offering really shines is in the DVD authoring. DVD Architect Studio is surprisingly feature rich for such a bargain priced authoring package. Most notably the inclusion of playlists and the ability to create menus to any structure you like are features not usually found in the sub Ł100 market. I wouldn't expect subtitles or multiple audio streams in a product at this level (and needless to say they are not there) but nearly everything else is and the only obvious basic feature not included is the ability to rotate text and other objects. If you just want the DVD authoring Amazon have it stand alone for around Ł32 which is an absolute bargain. I am currently using Ulead Video Studio 10 and trying SVMS really didn't seem to have much there to make me switch. Ok Ulead hasn't got the most attractive of interfaces, library management is woeful and they waste so much screen space making everything big - but it works very well and it seems (haven't done any actual timings mind) to be quicker to load and render than either Sony or Adobe. Ulead has much greater flexibility in the types of file you can create too. Adobe's in built DVD authoring is rediculously limited but if I wanted a new video editing program I would probably go for Adobe in preference to Vegas.
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Now that v7 can render AC3 audio there is not much missing in this very stable, very capable product -- especially for the price. Rattler24 is correct about the fixed MPEG2 bitrate from the Vegas Studio component of this suite, but there is a workable solution, as follows, assuming your goal is to make a DVD. If you have a 90+ minute production, after editing simply render it from Vegas Studio to your hard drive in a DV-avi format -- Vegas Studio gives you an easy option to do this. Then, open the DV-avi file in the DVD Architect component of this suite, add your DVD menus, and use the "fit to disk" function. DVD Architect will set the MPEG2 bitrate appropriately to ensure that your 120 minute (or whatever length) production will fit nicely on a single DVD.
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Just to be clear. The editor in this software package is excellent. BUT if your intention, after editing, is to render to MPEG-2 then my suggestion would be to buy something other than Vegas Movie Studio (+ DVD). I make this recommendation for one reason. Vegas Movie Studio (+ DVD) will not let the user change the predefined video rendering bitrate for MPEG-2. The predefined video bitrate for MPEG-2 rendering is 8 Mbps, no other option is available. To verify this I sent the following question to tech support: ”What do I need to do in order to create custom templates for MPEG-2?” There response was “Unfortunately the ability to adjust render fields in Vegas Movie studio is not possible. This option is available in the full version of Vegas 6.0. For more information on Vegas 6.0 you can click on the link below: http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/Products/ShowProduct.asp?PID=965 I went to the recommended web site and was informed that it would cost me an additional $350.95 if I wanted to UPGRADE. Thanks but no thanks. One final thought. While rendering at 8 Mbps will provide excellent quality video it also limits the playback time to only 90 minutes. Not so good when you are trying to fit a 120 minute movie onto one blank DVD disc. And I will point out that 120 minutes of MPEG-2 video looks reasonably good, even on a 65 inch HDTV.
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All I can say is, rattler24, are you serious? READ THE MANUAL! Play with it some more. This is the BEST DV-AVI editor/author to MPEG2-DVD package for the price out there. Period! This is NOT an MPEG editor. Go use MPEG Video Wizard!
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Great editor if you want to render to MPEG-1 or AVI. MPEG-2 rendering is limited to only one predefined video bitrate. Which means this program rather limited for anyone who is working with movies. Because the most you can get onto a blank DVD is 90 minutes. Their support is relatively quick to respond, but they don't bother to read the request so the answers are mostly useless. Example, I've sent 7 requests asking for the video bitrate of the MPEG-2 render template. The guy doesn't even know what a video bitrate is. The other BIG draw back, no smart rendering, every time you do any editing with this program you need to render the entire file in order to save it to disk. Remove one frame and you need to render the entire video.
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I am a big fan of this product. I used to use version 4 - just upgraded to 6 Studio Platinum. (let me start by saying I have NOT used Premiere or Premiere elements - and I would expect those to be the obvious competition) This is a VERY powerful production for home users. All complaints I see are from people who want various professional features (ac-3 5.1 etc.) It is stable you can preview right away. It becomes intuitive fairly quickly. I strongle recommend you read at LEAST the Quick Start, and probably print out the full manual this baby cna do a LOT of things. I am very happy with it.
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Compared to ALL other commercial standalone video capture / edit / author / burn packages out there in this price category ($100), SONY Vegas Movie Studio Platinum is by far the most powerful, feature rich, stable and "tight" (from a resource & code perspective) program I have had the pleasure to review. It is, in effect, Vegas LITE. Wow! Adobe, Ulead, and TmpGEnc are probably the ONLY real contenders here as editors, and they quickly fall by the waist-side after doing hands-on comparisions. Everything else out there at this price point, i.e. Arcsoft and Pinnacle, is a joke and not worth your time! No contest here! The SONY Movie Studio + DVD Platinum combo should be a $300 program. (Don't tell that to SONY!) You will NOT be disappointed!
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Still no Dolby AC3 support!!! This software is worthless to NTSC DVD users, as MPEG1 Layer 2 audio is not NTSC DVD compliant. Value in this software has decreased as far as I'm concerned. If TMPGEnc can release a $30 Dolby AC3 plugin, Sony could too. At least there should be a plugin available to purchase for it. In no way am I going to spend a few hundred dollars more, for the full Vegas 6. AC3 should be standard in all editing and authoring programs.
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This software is stable and is easy to use. It has timeline view only, but it works great. It is missing Dolby AC-3 encoder, so you can only output audio in WAV/MP2. Sony should've at least included a 2ch AC-3 encoder. For NTSC, AC-3 is standard. MP2 is for PAL format, although it does work with most NTSC DVD players too. Sony needs to seriously consider adding AC-3 support to both Vegas Movie Studio and the included DVD Architect Lite. I started using this software extensively, but have switched to various other tools that are specialized and give better results. 1) Vegas Movie Studio - I only use it and Sony Audio Studio, to monitor audio, and examine initial audio levels of test captures for clipping. 2) WinDV - Because of the buffer, I use this for perfect captures with no dropped frames. 3) TMPGenc 3.0 - I use this to encode, because of the Dolby AC-3 plugin support. 4) TMPGenc DVD Author & DVD Lab - I use these to author DVD because of Dolby AC-3 and the features.
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Sorry if I repeat other people. This product is stable. Yes easy intuitive fast etc. but really it is refreshing to not be nervous everytime you run it. (I did get it to crash once though) Although a techie I am a sort of newbie to the editng game - and this progrma also does some nice hand holding - it has a "show me how function" which walks you though steps of doing various tasks. It does not have a million effects etc - but for me that is OK. I was also surprised that (besides the rendering process) it is fast and even on my laptop (without the fastest disk of CPU it works well.
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I have used various editors including Vegas Movie Studio (VMS), Pinnacle Studio (7,8 and 9), and Cyberlink Power Director 3. Let me tell you how refreshing it is to use such a powerful and STABLE editor like VMS. I have spent many frustrated nights using Pinnacles Studio and now that Sony has replaced MyDVD with their own DVD Architect, I have finally uninstalled Power Director and removed the Pinnacle infestation from my computer. VMS has features like chromakey, and PiP that the others dont have or charge extra in a "plus" version. All render high quality video but VMS rendering engine is the fastest.
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I was undecided between Ulead 8 and Vegas movie studio + DVD but the new DVD architect lite that comes with this puts it over the top. I can now customize the menus, allowing me to animate and move buttons, thumbnails wherever I wish. Having tried the trial version of Ulead 8, I found that Vegas Movie Studio was not as intuitive as Ulead 8, but just as powerful.
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This tool is extremely STABLE (both v4 and v3) compared to my experience with Pinnacle Studio8. With MovieStudio (and previously Screenblast Studio), I have made more than 4 DVDs within 2 months while it took me more than 6 months to get 1 DVD out of Studio8. The stability of the MovieStudio counts very much for me as I am not plagued with having to keep un-installing my OS, software, etc just to get the tool to work. And with DVD Architect Studio added, this package rocks for a home-user. Definitely recommend this tool as a must consider option.
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Having used Vegas and DVD Architect I found this really easy to use. For my needs it doesn't quite cut it, but for the home user it is fine.
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Having just upgraded from V3 to V4, I can safely say that the upgrade ($30) is definately worth the money for those who have V3 and want better dvd authoring facilities. The video editing tool itself, Movie Studio, doesn't have that many new features over V3 and I would say its more of a point release. Sure, the new 3D transitions look cool and I think the new version of the MainConcept encoder is faster (though I haven't tested it enough to be sure), but in terms of new functionality it doesn't offer much over the old version. That's not to say it isn't good; the reason I went for this product in the first place was because it offered great functionality, especially when compared with other tools in the same price bracket. The real advance here is in DVD authoring. Moving away from the sub-standard Sonic MyDVD and providing what is, in effect, a cut-down version of Sony's DVD Architect is a great move and one guaranteed the eliminate some other comments against this product, from those who felt the dvd authoring let down an otherwise superb tool. OK, so it's not as good as its big brother nor the likes of DVD-Lab, but to be included as part of a $99 video/dvd package its definately good value for money. Both the video editing and dvd authoring tools are now "lite" versions of Sony's professional tools; they both share a consistent interface and offer a good sub-set of the features found on their more expensive siblings, but without selling short. If you can't afford the professional tools then I believe you wouldn't go wrong with this package.
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I'm not a professional video producer, but neither am I a total newbie. I was looking for a decent video editing program under $200 (the wife would kill me if I spent more), and went in to the process recognizing that I would have to make some compromises for that price. I used Pinnacle Studio 7 and 8, and found it to be so buggy and slow as to be utterly unreliable and unusable. Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator 6 was stable enough, but the image quality of rendered DVD movies and menus was poor. ULead Movie Factory was nice, but too basic in its capabilities. Sony Screenblast Movie Studio, by comparison, is extremely stable -- not a single crash so far -- and provides a number of sophisticated capabilities not found or only partly found in other packages. For example, compositing, separate audio tracks and text tracks, and high-quality MPEG rendering. I also like that the Screenblast UI is pretty much "Vegas light," so the skills you develop using this program are somewhat transferable to professional-level UIs. For me, the only downside to Screenblast -- and the reason I only rated it a 7 for Functionality -- is menu authoring. Screenblast does not provide integrated menu authoring (an inheritance, perhaps, of the model used in its professional siblings), but includes Sonic MyDVD 4.5, which is a really weak menu authoring package. It's unfortunate, but MyDVD, while stable, is so limited in its capabilities that it's pretty well near useless for the sorts of things I want to do. Having said that, it's not really much better or worse than the menuing components included with the Roxio, Pinnacle, or Ulead products. MyDVD drags down an otherwise outstanding product. Bottom line: Screenblast is a really great video editing package. You can use it to edit videos for a variety of output formats, not just DVD, and its export capabilities are more numerous than its competitors. The program works extremely well for creating output for DVDs, but you will probably want to add a 3rd-party DVD menu authoring program like DVD-lab.
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I have been using Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0a for over a month now and I really like this program! The interface is very easy to use and the results have been great. I am using this program to edit DV files (transfers from analog tapes via a DV Camcorders analog passthrough). This program includes a lot of effects, transitions, and other goodies that can help make professional looking results. I gave this product an 8 on functionality because there are a few things that I would like to see added or changed: 1. The included DVD author program myDVD 4.5 produces pretty poor results. 2. The scrolling credits effect would be even better if it allowed the same border & shadow effects as other text. The 9 on ease of use is because the nice big printed manual is very basic (targeted to newbies) and doesn't explain all of the features available. I still haven't found any written information on what some of the advanced rendering options do.
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I've used Pinnacle Studio 7 and then 8 over the course of the last 3-4 years. I've only been able to create 1 VCD and could not create a DVD. I was just about to give up my video editing hobby when I decided to look again at other tools. I looked at ULead and found that it was not a bad product. However, I selected Movie Studio because I read it was based on the same code base as Vegas Video which is very popular and stable. I have not been disappointed. It took me a few nights of getting used to the timeline after using the storyboard for so long. It would be great if Sony would add one to ease the transition from other products. But after 1 week I've created my first DVD!!! I highly recommend this product to anyone who is sick and tired of using the Pinnacle webboard to find the million and one workarounds to get the product to work.
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I tried Pinnacle, Ulead7, and last year's Magix. They all work. They all have their + and -. I finally settled on the Sony/SF product because as an audio guy for years I was familiar with the GUI aspect. For those interested this is essentially a "Vegas Lite". I personally don't mind the lack of a Story Board, nor the more utilitrian look of the GUI. The eye candy from the other products mentioned is gone. There are no cutesy TV or remote mock-ups, just what you need to work and produce A/V off-line. I have found it to be rock solid, reasonably fast and the real-time audi envelopes are a real plus. On the others you set project fades, etc. or use a graphic with a SMPTE time set for the effect, I suppose in deference to the eye-candy. Screenblast will let professionals work the way they're used to and give consumers a more flexible production environment. Having said that, the wizard and eye candy set or the quickie home movie compositors will find that there is a learning curve as this program will not "do it for you". My only knock is that this version will not locate or load other DirectX effects in the audio chain. I gave it an 8 for ease to qualify "ease". For anyone familiar with Sonic Foundry products or pro-level audio products (Sound Forge, Wave Lab, Logic, Cubase, Pro Tools, Sonar, Nuendo) it's a snap. In fact it's frightenly easy with a great 3 track stereo audio presentation and 3 track video timeline. The help files and tutorials are well designed and direct. It's also anywhere from 10 to 30 bucks cheaper than the less functional eye candy products.
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I've been using this for several weeks after bad experiences with ArcSoft Showbiz and Ulead VideoStudio. I find the interface to be simple and straightforward. I was up and editing very quickly. There are a few quirks but they are easy to live with. It uses only a timeline interface; I think adding a story-board mode would improve it, but I'm doing fine without it. This editor has a rich feature set. For instance, you can apply video filters to individual clips, groups of clips, or you can just put it on the entire output. (Great for me, I can create one filter that compensates for the low saturation of my camera.) You can also create your own templates for filters, text, etc. It has a very intuitive way of changing the gamma on fades, too. SMS also has better audio capabilities than the other tools I've tried. And you can specify your own external audio editors, film capture tools, etc. On large projects it can be slow to load, but it's pretty fast once it's going. (Ulead VideoStudio is maddeningly slow all the time.) This tool uses MyDVD as the DVD authoring tool. It has some limitations but I've worked out a few tricks that keep me happy. You can only capture as AVI, and when you "create a DVD" it generates AVI. So I use the honestech tool to batch-convert to mpegs (which causes some problems)and I generate mpg files and THEN go to MyDVD. Minor irritations. Overall I recommend this highly. I downgraded it on Ease of Use because they have a moronic online registration that rarely works. You have to register both the product and the mpeg plug-in, so be ready to call Customer Service twice. Documentation and tutorials are excellent. Well-integrated and thorough.
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