I have Great news from MAGIX!

[John Rofrano]

Thanks for the kind words Rob. It’s nice to be appreciated. That’s what makes is a great community. People do really care. 🙂

~jr

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http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Angelo Mike]

Great news all around. I’m really thrilled to hear this. Vegas is great.

[Steve Rhoden]

Great community indeed John. People do really care….
Gives us the encouragement as Cow Leaders to be here assisting
all whom we can on a daily basis, its not easy, but its the
passion we have for all users here and this remarkable editing tool.

Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
Film Maker & VFX Artist.
Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
Samples of my Work and Company can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia

[Craig Meeks]

Thanks John, this rocks!

Craig Meeks
http://www.bluefortressmedia.com

[Ron Whitaker]

This is WONDERFUL news!!!

I was just coming to this forum to share the email I received earlier today. It reads:

Hey,

As you may already know, Sony Creative Software sells Vegas Pro (and other applications) to MAGIX Software

We believe that this is good news for all Vegas Pro users!

MAGIX promises to support all current users of the Sony Creative Software products being acquired.

In a press release announcing the acquisition, Magix CEO, Klaus Schmidt, said, “These products from Sony Creative Software are the perfect addition to our portfolio,” adding that the goal is to release updated versions of Vegas Pro and Movie Studio later this year.

Kind regards,
Vegasaur.com

Now, John, is there someplace on the MAGIX website we can go to give our input on what we’d like to see in the upcoming release?

Or, do YOU have their ear? If so, can we forward things on to you to pass along to the developers at MAGIX?

Thanks for sharing this awesome news! I was just about ready to fall out of love with SVP and move to FCPX, but I think I’ll stick around!

[Setiawan Kartawidjaja]

Ron, currently we are listing whole wishlists on one thread in SCS Forum:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/showmessage.asp?messageid=945282

Eric Dettman (user MAGIX_Eric D) and Gary Rebholz (user GaryRebholz) have noticed and backlogging all of them.

Magix community forum is https://www.magix.info, and some of us have visited it, but must admit majority of us felt the forum look ‘old’, slow, and ‘narrow’.
Not like SCS Internal forum or this (CreativeCow) forum (or even https://www.hitfilm.com/forum) which are simple look.
(discussed about the forum issue too in separate recent topic: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/showmessage.asp?messageid=945099)

No idea yet for the future place of community forum.

[John Rofrano]

[Ron Whitaker] “Now, John, is there someplace on the MAGIX website we can go to give our input on what we’d like to see in the upcoming release?”

Not that I know of. A new feature thread was started on the internal Sony forums. Gary Rebholz has posted on Sony’s Vegas Pro forum and Eric Deetman has posted here (Greetings, From the Vegas Team) on the COW. Those are the people you want to reach.

[Ron Whitaker] “Or, do YOU have their ear? If so, can we forward things on to you to pass along to the developers at MAGIX?”

Please don’t forward request to me. I don’t want to be in the middle (nor should I be).

YOU have the ear of the Product Owner, Gary Rebholz, right here on the COW. Start a thread with your requests and I’m sure Gary and Eric will be reading it and possibly commenting on it.

This is NOT Sony Creative Software! They were unfortunately muzzled by corporate lawyers from Sony Japan.

This is MAGIX!!! They are here on YOUR forum and you can talk to THEM directly. It’s a WHOLE NEW WORLD!!! 😀

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Amanda Duffield]

Similar to a recent poster I was just about ready to fall out of love with SVP and move to …… (Still undecided).

I’ve long been concerned that Vegas Pro is not actually the best program for my needs – could you advise because if it’s not the correct program I won’t fill up the feedback page – it could just be that I should be using software that has a different purpose.

I have no formal training (other than John and Cow Forum!). I was taught by my predecessor who was taught by her predecessor. Back then, nobody streamed content and everybody used DVD players. YouTube may have been around but blocked from access. vegas was used purely to cut out surplus/unwanted footage and architect to caption and burn to DVD.

Nobody wants dvd’s anymore. Architect exports very few formats as far as exporting subtitles goes, plus I usually lose my colours, positioning etc. so, .ive been trying to change this workflow to one program only -Vegas pro 13.

My job is to:
1. Produce transcript.
2. Synchronise into captions.
3. Provide footage back to requestor, with captions burned in (open) .

I do not play with any with any of the technical aspects of recolouring or touching up people’s footage. I generally render to mpeg2, MP4, pal formatting.

Vegas doesn’t burn captions in.
Vegas doesn’t display the captions in preview window after the first one (ie does not refresh). (Recent upgrades haven’t fixed this.
I bought vegasaur us and converted captions to text boxes (so I could burn in) however the text wasn’t as crisp as captions. It looks blurry. Tried various rendering suggestions from here.

I trialled caption assistant which was very helpful with the making captions side of things however at around $600 aud I could buy a whole new suite of software for that so trying to understand if Vegas really is made for this workflow.

Vegas DOES export captions to various formats meaning handbrake & YouTube can read them. But then I’m just re-burning in handbrake to burn captions in, seems like double-handling, plus I can’t burn in handbrake without a kind of ‘shimmer’ happening on captions (frame rate?)

I like Vegas and architect due to being able to synchronise precisely to the audio by lining up with the audio wave. Free programs like mac caption and subtitle workshop aren’t as flexible for synchronising however they are great for exporting in various different formats for other programs to read.

I realise Vegas is not purpose built for captioning and wonder whether to continue trying to workaround it, whether to purchase caption assistant, or whether I am on the wrong track altogether and should be looking at different, purpose built, software. I use PC and laptop, no Mac.

Thanks.

[John Rofrano]

[Amanda Duffield] “I realise Vegas is not purpose built for captioning and wonder whether to continue trying to workaround it, whether to purchase caption assistant, or whether I am on the wrong track altogether and should be looking at different, purpose built, software. I use PC and laptop, no Mac.”

I tend to agree that you’re using the wrong tool. Vegas Pro doesn’t create open captions. Caption Assistant is for creating closed captions with Vegas Pro so it won’t help.

Your best bet is to look for dedicated captioning software like Telestream CaptionMaker. Your only challenge is that most of those tools are designed for the Mac (but there are some for Windows like Telestream) and cost $1,000 +.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Colin Morris]

A great sense of relief!!! I am excited on the audio recording front as well because Magix is the home of Samplitude. I can’t wait to see what happens in the future.
Thanks John, Steve, and Graham for all the support over the years. Also thanks to any senior forum people I have left out. The future looks bright!

Colin

Colin Mendez Morris
ArsMusica
http://www.arsmusica.ca