| Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8 Platinum Edition (PC) | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Creative Software
Category: Software
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 653
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 1.8
UPC: 855309378684
EAN: 0855309378684
ASIN: B000U71HP0
Release Date: March 26, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Can not Fault This software April 2, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this based on the reviews on amazon and after i bought a hdd sony camcorder. i must admit i am a fan of sony and also have a sony laptop to which i promptly installed. I was i little worried by some of the comments about bugs etc but not being completly computer savy i have to say i have had no problems so far. Delivery from amazon was super quick as usual and i have put together 45 mins of mpeg2 footage with titles at the begining and end with music and effects r5endered the project and used the supplied dvd architect to create advd with absolutly no problems. such a relief after struggling with windows movie maker for the last few months. with so many options and diffrent ways to create the movie the only problem would be to know when to stop messing about and actualy finish the project !
dvd architect is a little more complicated but will keep me busy for a while yet (or i could read the booklet!)
Very happy !
 Disappointingly buggy. February 27, 2008
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
Agree with other review's comments about ease of use, etc, but this software is inconsistent in it's presentation to the user and has some minor and one major bug (so far) that I and others have discovered.
The worst aspect of Vegas 8 Platinum is that it will hang on building audio peaks when loading a captured file to the timeline if there is corruption in the file. Having looked at a couple of message boards for any fixes to this problem, it looks to have been around for a couple of releases. The only way to carry on is to end the program (or if, as is sometimes the case, this will not work you have to trash it in Task Manager) and restart it. But then if you try and recover your project on restarting the program, it tries to pick the corrupt file up again and hangs. Because you can never tell if a captured file is corrupt before you try to open it, the only way around this that I can see is to save a new generation of the project before dragging any new event to the timeline. There is no error handling for this condition. Poor, very poor.
There is inconsistent behaviour when trying to insert a Marker into the timeline. Sometimes the Marker is inserted where playback was begun, and sometimes it inserts it at the point that is being played back when M is pressed. If you don't notice that the marker is at the wrong position you end up editing to the wrong mark.
When saving a project file (.VF), the program does not present the last place a .VF file was saved, but the last place a file of any type was saved. This contrasts with Make Movie, which always presents last place a movie file was saved.
Make Movie does not warn if the output file name already exists and creates another generation of file.
Horizontal scroll bar to change viewed region of the timeline does not appear every time the program is started, but sometimes displays as a black rectangle without any detail such as scroll buttons or the sized slider bar.
If you run out of disk space while capturing video files you don't get notified until all the capture action ends. So you might have 20 minutes of video to capture over 10 takes, run out of disk after take 2 and not be notified until a capture has been attempted on all takes. Even then the error message is woolly, in that all it says is words to the effect that "some files were not saved for some reason".
Original review posted 27 Feb 08.
28 Feb 08: Didn't take long to find another inconsistency - when doing a Make Movie, if the output file name is changed and then the user selects the Advanced Render option, the output file name in the Advanced Render section reverts to what it was before the name was changed.
06 Mar 08: During some actions such as Make Movie, parts of the Vegas window does not redraw correctly, and patches of the Desktop or parts of other windows are displayed "through" the Vegas window. Looks bad.
Also, once the full version of the software is purchased and installed over the downloaded Trial version, the .VF project files are still tagged as having been created with the trial version.
It's been a bad day - this is the third new problems to report today. The software hangs in mid-operation. This is not associated with the hang described previously when corrupted video files are loaded to the timeline, but seems to be associated with high data bandwidth requirements. The only way to end the program is to trash it in Task Manager.
Prior to today I thought the software was poor, now I'm regretting buying it at all, and if it was possible to do so I would reduce my current two stars to one. A big name like Sony shouldn't be putting this sort of rubbish on the streets.
 It would be great - if it worked properly! February 11, 2008
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
I bought this software about 4 months ago and have been in contact with Sony Tech Support ever since. Like the other reviewer says, they are utterly useless at getting their software to work correctly.
I have to say that I do like the user interface and concept of Vegas Studio, but every time I try to render a file which is more than 25mins long, it crashes. Sony are unable to explein why this happens. I've now tried it on 3 different computers and the same fault occurs on each of them.
So, if you want to render files longer than 25mins, then don't waste your money on this program! (like I did)
Worst editing software I have ever used February 4, 2008
17 out of 24 found this review helpful
I have used Pinnacle 7,8,9,10 and agree with earlier reviewer that they are very unstable and liable to crash.(Sent 9 back as it would not even load!) and that it has more patches than a quilt but at least it does usually work. having a Sony laptop and a Sony hard disc drive camcorder you would think that Sony Vegas would slot in seamlessly - and it would all work easily, but it doesn't. The Sony help system is also worse than useless, after asking numerous question which I am sure helps their marketing - they throw you out. I have now returned this rubbish and gone back to Pinnacle!
Watch Out Spielburg! February 3, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Awesome software, used to using Power Director but got fed up with crashing unstable software. Took a coupole of hours to get used to operating this software, but whan I was up and running the process was affortless, with fantasic results. Awesome, Awesome AWESOME!!!
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