Sony Vegas Pro 8 - who has it?
 

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/...bnr/vegas8.jpg

Professional HD video editing, audio editing, and DVD authoring software
The Vegas Pro collection combines Vegas Pro 8, DVD Architect Pro 4.5, and Dolby® Digital AC-3 encoding software to offer an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. These tools let you edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM? formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs.


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Was wondering who uses this - and what your feelings are on it? If you have a copy - hit me up please

I have Vegas 7, but B&H are selling Vegas 8 at an amazing $129.95 !
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...o_8_Video.html

Wow - usually see vegas pro 8 around 700$ CA

Yup at $129 its a steal! :D

I cant help but wonder - whats wrong with it? thats a huge price difference. Have you bought anything off of these people?

I have Pro 8...best editing software available for HD or SD period. no ifs ands or buts.

used vegas from 5 all the way to 8.... great app

i used pinnacle studio for a few years and last year i bought vegas 7 because i'm a huge fan of sony video products. to be honest, i had a hard time learning the program. part of the problem is i didn't know anyone who used so i couldn't get quick tips and i don't have alot of free time to learn another application. i'm very proficient with studio but i think vegas would have fewer quirks.

Once you get past the differences is the way Vegas does things I think anyone would have no problems with it. It is super easy to do complicated things when compared to other programs. If you are using something else like Avid, or Premiere then you will probably need to take an hour or so looking at the basic tutorials on the Sony site just to get the buttons and such. But once you get that straight it's super smooth sailing! I'm pissed it took me so long to try it out.
Plus there are lots of good tutorials on youtube too for those interested.

We use Pro 8...

Matt edits with it and swears by it

FYI, i think vegas 8 is the only version compatible with vista. i tried installing my vegas 7 version on vista and kept getting a messaging saying i needed to install "windows 2000 service pack 3 or higher".

Thats just it - my wife downloaded it from the sony site - trial version - so she could use it with our home camera as we take videos of our kid growing up. Its the only version that works with vista 64bit - now we're stuck because trial is up and the package is close to 700$ here in canada

I used Ulead on my last mov. That sucked. Gonna try Vegas next time

I tried to find out what the differences were between the expensive package Sony offers and the ~150 one, and it seemed like the more expensive one was geared more towards people with HD video cameras who were shooting stuff themselves and editing.

I don't really need to mess with all that, so I went with the cheaper version.

the difference (i think) is that you dont get the box & packaging - just a cd in a sleeve

this is standard "OEM" type packaging and most software can be legally purchased for MUCH cheaper than the retail package when buying OEM

But we do have a HiDef video cam (sony) but the software that comes with it wont work on a 64 bit vista system. Are you saying this cheaper software may not work with the hidef cam we have?