Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack
by Sony Creative Software
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Software Reviews of Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack
Customer Review: Installation nightmare
Summary: 1 Stars
My rating is currently low since I can't even get the program to install. I hope my review changes if I can ever get it installed as I've heard many great things. Sony support is terrible. One should not have to pay to speak to a live person just to get the program installed. Support via email is down right useless!! Hopefully I'm not stuck with useless software.Customer Review: Best Choice
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a splendid piece of software. The pro-level program has excellent tutorials built-in, but some experience with Windows Movie Maker covers all the basic edit moves. This is one program you'll not regret owning and using. Practice, practice, practice makes for polished professional productions.Customer Review: the best professional video editing software!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this software for my son who freelances as a videographer in his spare time and he loves it! He normally uses Final Cut Pro and he says Movie Studio offers more editing and formatting options.Customer Review: Let Me Save You Some Grief!
Summary: 1 Stars
I've been doing some research on Camcorders and Video Editing Software. If you do a search for the top ten video editing software programs and choose one for HD Video Editing, you will inevitably be disappointed. If you buy an HD Camcorder for under $2000 expecting the in the box Video Editing Software to match the capabilities of the camcorder you will inevitably be disappointed. Many people realize the quality of Photoshop Elements 8 for editing photographs. This remains undisputed. Photoshop has unfortunately come up with a program that combines Photoshop Elements 8 and Premier Elements. Premier elements is an utter failure and disappointment (see reviews). In order to avoid this catastrophe and because many people already own and use Photoshop Elements, they are opting to go with Movie Studio 9 and their Photoshop Elements. This will also lead to problems for many because of issues with Microsoft compatibilty. Most of the top ten products run into conflicts with both Windows XP and Vista Operating systems and are a complete question mark when it comes to Windows 7. Hopefully ITRON will eliminate the Microsoft monopoly soon and once and for all. The first bit data that all consumers should know regarding HD camcorders is that the consumer level software is nowhere up to par with HD. In fact its probably going to be considered to be crap by most. Some of the things to look for in a real HD video editor are: XDCAM file import, Exchange with other post production programs, Multicam editing, Native AVCHD editing, 3-way color correction, Flexible user interface, Precise keyframe functions with B?zier curves, Batch conversion, Image stabilization, 3D title effects, Timestretching, GPU hardware acceleration, Real-time audio mixer, Dolby? Digital 5.1 Surround sound, DVD authoring module with up to 8 audio tracks, Output on Blu-ray Disc (with 6-channel Surround sound). Its got to have that. Also, there is a problem trying to get your video editing software to work together. In order to edit HD video you will need a computer with the following (this is not mentioned by the people at Best Buy, the Geek Squad or anywhere I can find online (being an electronics technician trained in building computers and industrial type computers, I know these things). I can see a lot of people headed for some frustrating and expensive let downs. First, in order to do any type of HD editing you will need a computer that has a Pentium 4, 3GHz with hyperthreading or a dual-core with at least 1.3GHz. You need at least 2GB of RAM, actually more than that. You need direct X compatibility. You need a GeForce 6600 Video Card or better (or equivalent). Second, in order to do any kind of editing with the new and improved (soon to be standard) video format called AVCHD you will need at least 3GB of RAM and at least a 2.66GHz 2-Quad Microprocessor. You also need at the least, an ATI Radeon HD 3000 series with 512MB of VRAM. You need to look outside the usual choices at a video editor around the $300 range. With that you will get everything in one software package, no compatibility issues and you know it will work on Windows 7. Try Magix Pro trial, I did. I haven't had any problems, and I'm buying it today.Customer Review: Powerful editor, good price
Summary: 5 Stars
After you invest about 2 hours going through the tutorials, you can effectively be editing video and including basic effects like: titles, slow motion, inserted text, and transitions. Some functions aren't obvious so it took a little time to figure them out, but now I can quickly edit "prosumer" level videos. I would definitely recommend this for people that want a solid editing platform for good home, training, or even basic movie making projects. I am going to buy a second copy to teach my 10 & 12 year old how to edit videos.