Reports for such support for Premiere Elements have been conflicting, while the rest of the consumer video editing applications like Ulead, Magix, iMovie and Movie Maker don’t support 24p at all (which is important if you are an owner of a recent Canon HD consumer camera). Vegas Movie Studio is perhaps the only NLE in the consumer market that supports 24p properly. Vegas supports a variety of audio formats too, including AAC, mp3, WAVE, OGG and the Pro version supports FLAC too. It couldn’t read our XViD/DivX files, but apparently it can export as such as long as an encoder is installed.

Vegas supports a variety of mpeg, h.264 and intermediate formats and it can also read codecs installed system-wide on Windows (I tried the popular open source intermediate codecs Huffyuv and Lagarith). The first thing that a user must get right on Vegas is the project properties, which must reflect the source footage’s properties. As of this writing, the latest versions are 8.0c for the two consumer versions and 8.0a for the Pro version.Ī Vegas window consists of the timeline, the extra tools organized in a tab window format, the audio mixer, and the preview window.

Prices range from $80 to $600 for the three products. NET/VB scripting, and the various exporting options. Other differences include the amount of A/V tracks allowed in the timeline, available plugins, editing picture quality (8bit vs 32bit). In simple terms, Movie Studio can only use DV-sized video, Platinum can deal with AVCHD/HDV-sized one (not full HD), and Pro can go full HD.

Sony Vegas comes in three flavors: Movie Studio (usually abbreviated as VMS among its users), Movie Studio Platinum (VMSP), and Pro. This is an introduction of the application and the features that sets it apart from all the rest. Vegas is one of the quickly rising video applications on the market today.

After days of intense searching and testing last June, I decided on the Windows platform and Sony Vegas. Having this recent infatuation with video, I embarked on a trip in the video editor world for Mac, Windows and Linux a few months ago.

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