Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review




it works., October 31, 2009
By Richmond McDonald (Tampa, FL, USA)
I've been using earlier pro versons for years, thought I would see if this would work out after a meltdown of my old computer, since the new computer would not run my old programs. I wanted to save the money and figured this would work- so far it seems to be able to handle it. To be honest, I'll probably go ahead and pay an upgrade fee to the pro verson- you don't have to, its just my preference. This seems a solid program and enough for most.



Pretty good software, October 28, 2009
By J. A. Thomas (Villa Rica, GA USA)
I bought this because Ulead Mediastudio Pro is no longer being developed. It looks like good software.



No Hardware encoding support and none coming...., October 27, 2009
By Frederick J. Dunn (South Texas, USA)
I bought Sony Vegas Platinum Pro but when I went to render a 2 hour movie 720x480 with some saturation and noise adjustments is when I found out that it doesn't support Hardware Assist (GPU) encoding, transcoding, or rendering. I just watched the counter click up to 29+ hours to render my movie.

Since I already have Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 installed (and it does use my GPU Hardware) I decided to render it in VSP X2 and it took less than 5 hours, burn and all.

If you go onto the Sony Vegas Forums you will see many people bummed that Sony is not supporting Hardware assist. The canned Sony answer is that they would have to rewrite the core of the program and don't want to do so.

Sony Vegas does have its bells and whistles, especially soundforge which is almost worth the purchase price in itself.

And I know what some of you are thinking....that I didn't have enough hardware to run it properly...WRONG! I have a 3.0GHz Quad with 4GB RAM, a Diamond HD4870 512MB video card, and the SATA disks are Enterprise nearline drives running RAID 1+0 on a 3Ware 9650SE PCIe true Hardware controller.

I place this is the same mistake category (other than SoundForge) as Pinnacle, which is a dog.



Sony Movie Studio 9, October 8, 2009
By Richard L. Perry (Florissant, MO USA)
Sony Movie Studio 9 that I purchased from Amazon is a great package. As an added bonus, you get Sony's Architect Studio also. I did not see this fact in any of the advertising or on the box!



Not for amatures, October 7, 2009
By POLITICO (stillwater, ny United States)
This is a fabulous product for, well...ah..as the box says : PROS! Amatures beware. This is not user friendly and the "help" function starts out right on target then frequently leaves you hanging with unresolved issues. If you are into casual editing as most of us are and don't have a lot of idle time for HOURS of problem solving don't get this program, it isn't - despite the marketing - designed for you.