Sony Vegas Movie Studio + DVD Platinum Edition [Old Version]

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review




Wow...what a great program, January 10, 2007
By J
Sony Vegas is simply an amazing product, especially for the price. User friendly, powerful...Vegas is satisfying.



Great product, great price, September 15, 2006
By Son Tran (New York)
I am a beginner with video editing and decided on Movie Studio after reading some of the reviews. I am happy to report the the product performed as promised right out of the box. This was my first time editing video, my prior projects were slideshows with a product Roxio puts out and this put the Roxio product to shame.

The initial setting up of the software was painless as was the capturing of the video from my camera. Be warned though that the product does not support some video taken from still digital cameras. With my mini-dv camcorder though everything was smooth.

The timelines and ability to cut/paste and trim audio and video seperately or together is easy to use once you get the hang of it. Yes, like anything worthwhile you need to spend time with the manuals and tutorials but if this is a complaint then you don't need this product.

There are enough effects and transitions to put together some nice projects and the ability to pan across still photos is a awesome.

There is a decent how-to section to show you how to get things going and the package even includes 2 discs with sound effects to add to the project.

As for the DVD software while it works well I am still trying to master it to get beyond the basics. I found the how-to tutorials much less helpful than in the editing suite but I can still make some decent dvd menus.

All in all I can't complain. Everything has worked like it should. I have only had one glitch burning a dvd which a simple reboot of my computer fixed. The editing suite has not once crashed and even though the rendering times are long the final product looks great.

I have not tried other products but I really can't imagine anything out there that will work much better than Movie Studio for the same price.

ST



Great software for the non-professional., August 24, 2006
By B. Jared
I bought this to make DVDs of home video, and it's awesome. I think a lot of people think making a DVD is as simple as clicking an icon and it does everything for you. It's a little more involved than that. Basically, be prepared to use a couple of the programs included in this set. Let me explain how I use this software:

1. Open up Movie Studio, and capture the video from your camera. This creates a bunch of AVI files that you can now work with.
2. Use Movie Studio to add a nice fade-out, or crop the sections of the video you don't want, add some music or sound effect tracks, and play with the volumes of each audio track to your liking, and re-render in the same format as the source, but as a different filename/location. (It should most likely be a resolution of 720x480 pixels)
4. Now that you have all your prepared videos, open up DVD studio and add them to the project, add menus, change menu backgrounds, change fonts...etc. The manual that came with the software is pretty decent, and the online tutorials can even aid you in your active project! (Just the other night, I went through the tutorial for making a picture slideshow, and it integrated right into my current project.)
5. When you're satisfied with your DVD project, simply prepare it (It creates the file structure that will be copied to your DVD) then burn the prepared project.

I made a DVD in less than 5 hours, and I did a lot of bells and whistles, adding music, a cute intro movie with sound effects and music, and the DVD was about 4.1GB when done.

The complexity of the software is directly proportional to how artistic you want to be. It can do a LOT of stuff. You probably won't use the ACID XMC, unless you want to CREATE your own music.

The steps I explained are pretty basic. You can't be afraid to poke around, and remember that these editors are non-destructive, so if you're playing with a video in Movie Studio, and you add fades, or text, or FX, it's not destroying your original work. Knowing this should give you some comfort while being adventurous and exploring the software.

This software has never crashed my machine, and I haven't had any problems other than my own lack of double-checking my work before burning a DVD that had things I forgot to edit/add.



I'm Uninstalling This Program, August 3, 2006
By Timothy P. Chambers (Newcastle, CA)
The program is not simple and easy. It is not bug free. I've found two errors which caused hours of frustration. It cannot even do a simple photo compilation with more than one music track (15 minutes of photos and 4 minutes of music). My friend has a competitor's product. I tried it and I'm buying that one. Too bad I wasted almost $100.



Great Program! Not for the impatient., July 7, 2006
By Villanman (Millington TN)
Bought this program to use with my new Sony HD3 HD Camcorder, as it is one of the few programs that capture HDV video.
It's everything you need and more for movie editing and transferring to DVD or File format. The tutorial is not too bad but it's not great in the fact it doesn't exactly tell you what to do after you finish a certain step. I had to actually use the Help file a few times to accomplish a few tasks, but with a little time and patients I was able to accomplish exactly what I wanted to do with my movie.You can edit and add text,titles, sound effects, music, and transitions to your home movies. I'm not sure if there is anything you can't do with this program. Burn it to DVD or save it as a HD video file or a Smaller file that you can email. Once installed, I recommend updating to the latest version as this will fix a few bugs and add some needed DVD widescreen options. I'm very satisfied with this program.