Sony Vegas is currently the most popular as far consumer and prosumer users. You are currently wrong…I have checkout all the popular user base forums. And as always, it has a much smaller learning curve.įar as Vegas never garnered the user base enjoyed in the “professional world” by the likes of Final Cut, Adobe Premiere and Avid.

And for you that means you can get these features for about half of what you’ve have to pay for other software.Īnd no, Sony Vegas Pro doesn’t match Final Cut, Adobe Premiere or Avid tit-for-tat yet…but it has taken a nice step forward (at least on paper). But what it means is they’ve updated the software so it’s more inline with other premium video editing packages. If you’d like to learn more, just go here. Everything from YouTube to HD for the Internet settings. They’ve added new templates for rendering Sony AVC (.MP4) videos. This means you can put really big photos in the timeline and then pan them for very dramatic effects. They’ve added support for gigapixel sized images. They’ve added new window layouts to speed the process of video editing (they’ve also darkened the color scheme to be more consistent with other video editing applications). Over 190 customizable video effects are now included. These allow you to simulate lighting and re-direct the focus of your footage. They’ve added sophisticated lighting effects like glints, rays, fill lights, defocus and more. You can learn more about Red cameras here. They also happen to be some of the most drooled-over cameras around. Red cameras are basically Hollywood-quality cameras without the Hollywood camera price. I should note the software is not available yet (it has a release date of May 11), so I can’t review it, but I can tell you about some of the notable new features.įirst, they’ve added support for Red cameras. Well now Sony appears to be addressing those “buts…” with their latest release, Vegas Pro 9. While there are multiple reasons for this, it really comes down to the fact that Sony Vegas looks, acts and works differently than other traditional, professional video editing applications.Īs a result, it gets picked on in the industry…as in “Yea, it’s really good software but…”. To date, Sony Vegas has never garnered the user base enjoyed in the “professional world” by the likes of Final Cut, Adobe Premiere and Avid. So I know the advantages and disadvantages of both quite well. In fact, I use Sony Vegas Pro nearly every day. I’ve always been a long-time fan and user of Sony Vegas video editing software.

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