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[Mike Kujbida]

[Bruce Brent] “Yep, confirmed at NAB, no new versions.”

Confirmed by who?

[Bruce Brent]

Mike, I attended NAB today. Talked to the rep for Catalyst. HE confirmed it. There was no representation of any Sony Vegas Pro software at the Sony booth. Michael Bryant and his team are in Madison, WI.

[Aaron Star]

Of course Sony’s front end sale will be telling you to move to their new product. Sales/profit, market share and other factors will dictate how they proceed.

I have thought that Vegas may be renamed, but will likely fit into another octagon of the catalyst product line. The catalyst product line graphic is more broken out applications than an all-in-one app.

Personally, this strategy may back fire as there is nothing really compelling about Catalyst edit, its lack of format support, and abilities.

[Mike Kujbida]

Thanks Bruce. While the news is sad for a lot of users it was expected.
My hope is that someone from Sony will have the courage to make an official announcement on the Sony Vegas Pro forum.

[Steve Rhoden]

Mike, no one from Sony gonna make any official announcement of this,
i can bet you on that. Anyway, i am utterly disappointed on this nasty path
Sony Creative Software has ultimately choose to go down!

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

[Graham Bernard]

Peter Haller “Left the Building”.

G

* Grazie

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[David Shirey]

This is pretty ridiculous. If you want to gouge customers like Adobe you really need your software to become an industry benchmark FIRST, then move to a subscription. They have Vegas Pro which was never hugely popular to begin with, but threw it out the window to start with something new and are making it subscription based already? Good luck with that, Sony. I’ll stick with Vegas 11 since I have issues with 12 and 13.

[Rob Cioffi]

Is anyone using Resolve 12 as an editor? It’s free and some getting raves in the blogosphere.

I recently saw a demo of Autodesk Smoke and I have to say that if I could afford it I’d jump over to that.

[Angelo Mike]

Well, if I become independently wealthy, I’ll try to start my own video editing software that is as powerful and easy to use as Vegas but with even more features and better supported. I’m sure if someone did that they could easily get out ahead of Adobe, Apple, Avid, and Sony.

[Nigel O’neill]

I had a play. It couldn’t recognise footage from one of my two cameras. Identical models. Go figure. It then recognised some footage, and then later, couldn’t see it. I can’t see myself using Resolve. Stuff that is so easy to do is clunky in Resolve.

Vegas 13 with Ultimate S Pro for my multicam editing is working fine for me. I have no compelling reason to use Resolve, even if it is free.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, GTX570, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6