[Ryan Mcmackin]

I feel I’m able to put my 2 cents in:) I have experience with pretty much all the major editors out in the market. from FCP/Premier pro Which I was trained on both in Collage. I’ve even used a little AVID, even Pinnacle before Avid incorporated the company.I’m currently a 3D/ film and motion graphics instructor. Where I teach both FCP and Premier Pro, I also have an independent film studio Dark Water Productions. Where we have completed a full length super natural thriller and have it distributed, feel free to look up IMDB for “Ominous” for valid credit. Now that’s all said and done.

Here are my 2 cents.
I personally was comfortable using FCP and Premier pro but when I decided to tackle a full length feature project my budget was pretty low. Fortunately I used to own the domain name Transformersmovie.com and Paramount was gladly to pay me enough to fund our project. I had to purchase and new HD camera so I decided to pick up a Sony brand camera. I was about to order a licensed version of either FCP or Premier Pro next but the sales rep decided to throw a License version of SONY VEGAS 6 with the camera. I was like okay that’s cool, I mean I’ve heard of Vegas and thought I doubt I would use it because I to felt it was an inferior editor.

Anyways to get to my point. When the camera arrived I saw the Sony Vegas 6 package with it and decided Hmmmmm maybe i’ll save a few thousand bucks instead of buying a new Mac with Final Cut or a Licenses version of Premier Pro.

I decided to install it and give it a run, at the time I heard Sony Vegas 6 was capable of handling HD footage on such a weak processor, so I decided to test it out. As soon as I installed it and started importing footage in the time line. Right off the bat i was impressed with how fast you could drop in any format of video let alone audio clips, Then after looking around I started dropping in Effects it even came with a license version of Magic Bullet so I was really dieing to try that out. After dropping in multiple effects I decided to run the time line I was amazed that Sony played the time line in real time with stacked effects on HD footage on such a weak processor which was a dual core intel chip not a duo core but a duel core at the time.

So I decided to really give it an honest shot, I ended up editing our whole movie Ominous on Sony Vegas 6 and completed it in version 7 and till this day I’m on Version 9. I honestly love Sony Vegas now. The work flow is amazing.

I can see why forums all over are starting to favor Sony Vegas, Sony had done there homework and made an amazing editor and the cost of the software is pretty cheap. Just because it’s a lower price doesn’t mean it’s inferior. Sony Vegas is really starting to turn heads in the industry. Eventually you will see it priced higher because it will be more in demand.

Look at Paranormal Activity movie he filmed it on a Sony HD camera and edited the whole project on Sony Vegas.

But all this is my opinion. But to everyone trying to knock Sony Vegas you might want to honestly give it a shot. You to might be surprised just like I was.

Ryan McMackin
Dark Water Productions
https://www.facebook/darkwatermovies