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| ![Vegas Movie Studio 8 Platinum Edition [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418TkrAFw2L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Sony Creative Software
Category: Software
List Price: $129.95
Buy New: $37.95
You Save: $92.00 (71%)
New (21) Used (5) from $37.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 491
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.2
MPN: MSPVMS8000
Model: MSPVMS8000
UPC: 855309678685
EAN: 0855309678821
ASIN: B000RLQNR6
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: brand new factory sealed
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| Customer Reviews:
 At last! November 21, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
At last I found a product that works well editing movies taken with my HDD camcorder. The learning curve is somehow steep but once you get it the results are very good.
 more complicated than I need November 15, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this a few weeks ago. I am new to video editing but work with lots of other types of software packages. I got this package after having seen previous posts mentioning that he HD format from my Sony camcorder was difficult to work with using other products. Clearly you can do some amazing things with this package but the learning curve is way to steep for someone new to video editing like me. The DVD editing program should be combined instead of seperate.
love it love it love it November 12, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
been using various software movie makers over the last few years....nothing compares to this product. user friendly and wonderful end results. The features are incredible...can produce something very simple or extremely complicated with great ease...love it, love it, love it. samm of sammproductions
Great for the price vs. what it does November 1, 2007
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
OK, this can't compete with my Adobe Premiere Pro 2 when it comes to editing power. But I bought it because it does at least two things that PP2 can't. It can produce better HD output from my Sony HDR-HC7 for viewing on a PC (or Mac). I like to view the output on my computer (not on a TV). This package does a clearly better job of de-interlacing.
The second nice thing is that it doesn't leave all kinds of setup files and folders for each project. I suppose that is to be expected of a better editor like PP2, but sometimes, I just want to whip out something quick and dirty without leaving a big trail of crumbs behind.
I suppose PP CS3 can equal or better this package when it comes to output for playback on a PC (especially de-interlacing), but it's WAY too expensive for me to upgrade just for that reason.
For the price, this one does what I need it do when I want to whip something out.
 Not So Good For Editing AVCHD November 1, 2007
47 out of 55 found this review helpful
I recently bought an AVCHD Sony HDR-CX7 camcorder; and I really enjoy it.
Since I liked the video from the Sony camera so much I figured I'd buy Sony Vegas Platinum since it claims that it supports AVCHD and edits in that format; and so I thought "This should be the best AVCHD editor available, since Pinnacle Studio 11 is the only other thing that claims to do so from start-to-finish." Mind you, nowhere does Vegas ever explicitly state that it does Not create AVCHD projects.
Let me make this clear:
I bought Sony Vegas Platinum 8; it does NOT output AVCHD.
BUYERS BEWARE
I genuinely feel betrayed by Sony for deceiving me ... for saying it edits and supports AVCHD, when it WILL NOT output AVCHD. When making those claims in their advertising, I, as a verbose consumer (not great, but verbose) accepted in good faith that that's what they meant, and I believe the deception was deliberate by the product manager responsible for releasing Vegas; that person should be ashamed.
I was suckered.
That's exactly what happened to me. Most experienced editors, both professional and consumer, will tell you smart-coding is the way to assemble a video project. By ONLY importing AVCHD (not assembling and not outputting in AVCHD) Vegas degrades the source-video quality when it Transcodes it to HDV, MPEG-2 or whatever other HD handling format it Actually edits in.
I want my 100 bucks back!
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