You are correct that there were three products but Voice Over was one of the tools in the first release of Excalibur. What’s amazing, I took the original Excalibur 1.0, changed “SonicFoundry” to “Sony”, and it RAN in Vegas Pro 10! Don’t guarantee all the tools would work correctly in 10 but it did start and displayed the GUI.
I’m not going to get into a date war but the fact is that Excalibur 3 was released with a tabbed interface in August of 2004 – two months before Ultimate S was first released. So it seems we were both working on a tabbed interface at the same time. I guess great minds think alike! Excalibur 4 combined the other two products into the single interface, and added more tabs, in March of 2005.
I agree that both are valuable scripts and Vegas would not be as easy to use without them. Which is also why I strongly recommend that everyone buy BOTH and use each to their best advantage!
Edward Troxel
