This is awful news. Awful. ‘Figures I’d hear it on a Monday. Here I invest years learning and working with the program and then they just peter out. Vegas was always the ugly step-child of NLE’s. No businesses used it. It was (is) only Final Cut and Premiere if you wanted to get a job editing. Vegas was unique in their single track editing. No other NLE snapped the way Vegas’s timeline did. The Sony Vegas developers just gave up. So now they have a new Catalyst. They’re trying to get out from under the stigma. Yes, I’ll be able to use this last version for a few years but they will be abandoning us. This is the problem with the Digital Age. You find a tool that works great but the new generation wants a new toy to build. Companies are forced to keep changing, like Windows. Windows XP was the best, they they had to keep rolling new version out and now we have Windows 10; the ugliest interface I’ve ever seen. It’s all about change for the sake of change. We are addicted to change; or we are forced to be pulled along to then next best thing by our nose rings. How effing disappointing. It’s Black Monday in my editing world.
As always thanks so much to you guys…Johnny In Orlando