I’ve used Avid, Adobe Premier, Pinnacle and even open source/free video editors. What I have not used before is video editing software that is as intuitive as Sony Vegas 9 Movie Studio Platinum. Ok, so it’s probably only intuitive to people who have experience in video editing, but having had projects using many different systems, I am very impressed with Sony’s offering.
Without consulting a manual or reading anything about it at all, I’ve just assumed that it works like a video editing software and viola, it does. No strange quirks or annoyances, just productivity. All the menus, structure and symbols in the user interface are easy to interpret and follow industry standards (possibly the first time Sony has bothered with things like that). It still lacks some of the features and third party plugin capability that you would find in Adobe Premier, but it’s just so instantly productive that I think I’ll be using it for a long while.
I did some test video editing on the Windows 7 Beta system and the performance was mind blowing! All video and rendering operations were noticeably faster. I’m not sure what to attribute this to, but that’s what we observed.
My project was to edit a YouTube video for another website essentially made from cut together YouTube videos, some pod safe music and some titles. It took me about 20 minutes to succeed with the project using this software. My project was super simple, but that fact remains that I’d still be at it with Adobe Premier.
When the project was rendered, I clicked ‘Upload To YouTUBE’ and it’s done! Fantastic! I love it! Have you ever tried to get Premier to output for YouTUBE? zeeaakks! Does Adobe not understand that the needs of MILLIONS OF YOUTUBE UPLOADERS can be very very profitable to meet? Sony get it. I’ve never been a fan of the Sony software, but I really have to give them credit on this one.
If you need a very high productivity, high performance video editing suite, you should at least give this a try. They have a free 30 day trial and you can download Sony Vegas 9 Pro or Movie Studio Platinum directly from Sony.
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