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| Vegas Pro 8 | 
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| From: Sony Creative Software
Category: Software
List Price: $699.95
Buy New: $273.00
You Save: $426.95 (61%)
New (38) Used (2) from $273.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 411
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 2.7
nv:Software Type: Audio/Video Authoring
MPN: SVDVD8000
Model: SVDVD8000
UPC: 855309838386
EAN: 0855309838386
ASIN: B000VVC01A
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Quick and easy November 2, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been playing around in After Effects 7.0.1 for a bit and for big time mivie effects there is little competition... But if you want to make quick and easy home movies..ie for video casts, YouTube etc... then Vegas Pro 8 is a great choice. It's simple and has many intuitive features.
A Very Good Product At A Fair Price November 2, 2007
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Although I've been a customer for years, this is my first review on Amazon. I'm an experienced computer user (web designer/tech consultant) running a mildly overclocked Dell winxp pro quadcore with 4Gb RAM and 768Mb video RAM (so take that into account when evaluating this review).
I completely disagree with the earlier reviewer who trashed the product. Although I'm somewhat of a newbie to video (I previously owned Premiere Elements 3 & 4), my experience with Vegas Pro 8 has been that it is very stable for a relatively complex program (certainly more stable than Premiere Elements 4). The only bug I've encountered was some erratic behavior with the pro titler, which was completely cured by downloading/installing the Microsoft .Net 3.5 (Beta 2) update. Vegas requires Microsoft .Net 3.0 be installed to run properly (perhaps the source of the earlier reviewer's problems). Also, it goes without saying that it's usually good policy to be running the manufacturer's latest stable release of any product (currently ver. 8.0a of Vegas, which can be downloaded at the sonycreativesoftware site).
Unlike the Adobe video products (Premiere, After Effects, etc.), the interface "look" is quite basic, but very functional. Everything just seems to work pretty much the way you would expect it to. It comes with a fair amount of useful transitions, effects, transparency support, and supports the VST plugin architecture (check out the NewBlue motion blends/effects).
In fairness, although it can do a LOT of what the Adobe Production suite can do (and even some things it can't do, e.g., Sony AVCHD support), it lacks some of the advantages that the Adobe suite has (at roughly 3 times the street price) in terms of integration with other technologies/products (e.g., Illustrator, Flash, etc.). However, it does recognize/import Photoshop psd files and Flash swf files, the latter being particularly useful for their (vector-based) high quality rendering and native background transparency.
I've discovered that there are a lot of dedicated Sony Vegas Pro users out there (some in professional editing environments). If you're looking for a very solid, very reasonably priced "prosumer+" level video editor, you should take a long, hard look at this product (download the 30 day demo). I really don't think you'll be disappointed.
Why get anything else? Bug free and SOLID performance! October 19, 2007
50 out of 53 found this review helpful
I have been a long-time (and very frustrated) Roxio user who, after crash # 953, finally got fed up and decided to try the trial version of Sony Vegas Pro 8.
Vegas Pro 8, of course, is a much higher-end product than Roxio Easy Media Creator (version 8 referred to herein for comparative purposes), but here are some reasons why you may wish to reconsider:
1. First and foremost, if you're serious about video editing and wish to explore new and creative ways to create DVD's, this one is a must. Roxio will continue to place annoying limitations like 60 second menus.
2. The controls are far more intuitive. Creating a slow-motion shot in Vegas Pro 8 is as simple as ctrl+clicking and dragging a video clip to the desired length. Roxio is a frustrating experience of playing with film speeds until the shoe fits.
3. Playback while editing is no longer a processing problem with Vegas 8. Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 (on a Pentium 4 2.6 GHZ Hyper-thread, 1 GB of RAM, and a 256 MB Nvidia GeForce 7800 card) has an annoying tendency to choke and run home to mommy when another process happens to run at the same time. Vegas Pro 8 takes it all in stride.
4. RENDERING. OH, YES, RENDERING. Roxio seems to think that everything needs to be re-rendered even if the edited video was already an MPEG-2 to start with. VEGAS PRO 8 DOES NOT DO THIS - if it's already in the right format, it won't ruin the quality by recompressing.
5. RENDER QUALITY. Roxio offers constant bit rate encoding. Period. Vegas Pro 8 offers 2-pass variable bitrate encoding which allows longer videos to be placed on a DVD, while compressing it at a variable rate so that segments requiring higher quality get what they deserve and segments that are relatively static (i.e., pictures) can be compressed at a much lower rate. Also, a 9 MBPS video encode from Vegas Pro 8 looks better than a 9 MBPS from Roxio.
6. Capturing. Vegas will tell me if my mini DV tape had dropped frames (and so far it has not happened at all); Roxio will not (and it HAS). I'll make a DVD with Roxio and...surprise!! I need to recapture that portion of the video because it's shot!!
7. Bugs. Roxio is buggy...VERY buggy. Every time I try to make additional copies of a disc image that I put on my hard drive (because I don't want to live through another Roxio video encode), approximately 25-30 error messages (no, I'm not joking) will pop up that I have to repeatedly close out of before I can use the burn utility. Not to mention that the initial install of Roxio caused my computer to forget that I had a CD-ROM or a DVD drive. I had to edit my registry keys so that I could "find them" again. Vegas Pro 8 has had ZERO issues with me.
There's more, but why go further? If you're serious about video editing and production, don't settle for less. This program will do it all from video editing, importing, capturing, image effects, DVD creation (including menus), and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding (INCLUDING 5.1!!). I have only scratched the surface of its full potential--there are plenty of tools to explore in there that can allow you to create very professional looking DVD's.
Buy and enjoy!!!! And NO, this software does NOT have bugs as mentioned by Dash's review.
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