[Bob Griffin]

As a user of Vegas since day 1 with the old Sonic Foundry folks, I can say only a few things:

1. Please don’t do what Sony did when they took it over and muck it up so it took several years to get stable. I’ve taken a close look at the Magix site and the German techs are super from what I can tell. They’ve always been years ahead of everybody else in tech stuff and equipment and it appears they will take Vegas to the next level.

2. Suggest they look at integrating Handbrake into the Vegas render section. Handbrake is a monster and should improve everyone’s renders and file sizes from what I’ve experienced so far. ProRes is OK, too but with Handbrake, it might be even better.

3. Keep NewBlueFX. Good stuff.

4. Keep the price reasonable. A lot of people are using Vegas and every few months, it seems like more stuff comes out. I’ve seen lots of programs with mp4 render engines that are killers.

Go Magix!