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should I purchase Sony Vegas Pro 10?
I’ve had Vegas Pro 9e for the last few months…all working fine.
Just wondering If I should take advantage of the upgrade offer….$133 …or so…?
I have XDCAM EX 1 camera… and do fairly standard news and feature news editing…
Will I gain much purchasing Vegas Pro 10? Esp in department of dealing with EX1 files..?
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I’ve found the main differences is more AVCHD support, Stereoscopic editing (3D) and my favorite new function “Image stabilizer”. That alone is worth the 130$ Danny Hays
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I’ve found that AVCHD editing and preview is ‘fixed’. Not a lot of other features for the money, given your requirements. But like all upgrades, I usually spring for it, as you know there are numerous bug fixes in there. For my limited needs in documentary work, it has been worth the price. BUT, backup ALL of your projects, as you might have add ins that don’t work, since we don’t know your whole system, and then IMMEDIATELY rename the files after opening. That way you don’t overwrite your V9 files with 10. A word to the wise.
Alf
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I guess everyone’s got their favorite new features. This wasn’t a “knock your socks off” release, but it’s a good one for many purposes.
One big one for me was the inclusion of support for the Open Effects Association plug-in architecture. Vegas had previously only supported DirectShow filters as plug-ins, which greatly limited what a plug-in could accomplish. This fixes the problem, and lets you spend lots more money on new plug-in collections (I bought BCC7 after playing with the trial for a few weeks). For example, the DirectX model didn’t allow a plug-in to process multiple frames without introducing a delay.
Another big one for me: track groups. This was something I had asked for (and received) years back in Acid… when you get past a certainly number of tracks, the “flat” view is insufficient. I had a few music video projects last year with 40+ video tracks… I did not precisely remain sane during those projects.
Some other stuff: multicam support is improved. I don’t shoot anything non-trivial without at least one second camera, so I do multiple camera shoots all the time. Vegas 9’s multicam had potential, but half the time, I found myself doing it “the old way”. Vegas 10 seems to fix this. Audio is once again treated as “first class”… you can have clip-level effects, just as with video… something that always bothered me in the past.
The stabilization is a nice plus. I generally shoot from a tripod or Glidecam, but can’t always. Not so much that I had planned to invest in a top-level stabilization plug-in, but having it built-in, I’ll take it. I’m using it in one current project, and expect to have lots more use for it in the next one.
I don’t always get the upgrade… thanks to Sony’s policies, you don’t pay more by skipping a generation. But it’s what, $140… not free, but if I can count ten things that make my life easier, that’s $14 per feature… not too hard to justify.
-Dave
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Many thanks to all for the very useful answers. Quick point of clarification… so if I skip Vegas Pro 10a …the one out now—-and try to upgrade when say Vegas Pro 10c comes out—will I or won’t I be able to pay the roughly $140 dollars to upgrade?
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The $140 upgrade is a special. Sony pretty much always offers discounted upgrades when a product first ships. Vegas 10 is Vegas 10… you buy it, you get 10a…10(n), but you will pay more if you wait. If you wait all the way ’till Vegas 11, you should be able to get the early adopter discount once again (at least, that has been the policy in the past… I’ve skipped generations before and not been penalized).
-Dave
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I tried to get the $130 upgrade (from 9e to 10) but the download price shown in my account on sony’s website is $239. Anybody know what gives and how I get the $130 price?
Jim
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