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Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9 | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Creative Software
Category: Software
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $67.99
You Save: $31.96 (32%)
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 364
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Platinum
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1.9
MPN: MSPVMS9000
Model: SPVMS9000
UPC: 855309678692
EAN: 0855309678692
ASIN: B001CPFWI2
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Features:
| • | Edit standard and high-definition video | | • | Produce DVDs with custom menus and graphics | | • | Share movies on Blu-ray Disc, iPod, online, and more | | • | Easy to use Show Me How tutorials | | • | Includes Cinescore Studio custom soundtrack creator |
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Product Description
Create the perfect montage from all of your media in one, easy-to-use, and reliable application with Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9. It contains new import and export project wizards to help you get started making your movies even faster and also helps with outputting projects to the proper formats for sharing across a range of delivery options. Sony Creative Software's exclusive Show Me How interactive tutorials are also included to help you learn the software more efficiently while completing the task at hand. The Show Me How tutorials make it easy to complete a project step-by-step.
Show Me How interactive tutorials
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent Vidoe Editing Software October 6, 2008
GAD (Charlotte, NC USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent product for the home video producer. I have successfully used it to produce a 40 minute high definition video. My video camera is the Sony HDR-HC9 high definition camcorder. This camcorder records in 1440 x 1080, 16:9 aspect ratio. The software detected my camera automatically and captures and writes back to the camera without any problems.
I produced two outputs. One was a high definition video output back to the HDR-HC9 tape camcorder. When played through the HDMI cable connected to my Samsung HDTV, the results were outstanding. I could not see any difference in the quality of the video between the original recorded tape, and the rendered completed production.
My second output for the same video was to a Standard Definition DVD. When I played this DVD on an up-scaling OPPO DVD player, the results were very good on the Samsung HDTV. It would take a sharp eye to tell the difference from the tape version.
I did not produce a blue-ray DVD as I do not have a blue ray DVD player.
The software does not require a supercomputer to run. My computer is a six year old Dell Dimension 8200, 2.0 GHz, 1 Gig memory, with a 120 Gig Hard Drive with 80 gig free memory. The software never crashes. When I produced my DVD movie, it automatically launched the included DVD Architect module without any problems.
The rendering time for producing the tape output movie was about 5 to one. It took 200 minutes to render a 40 minute move, and another 40 minutes to write it to tape in the video cam. The rendering time for producing the DVD was quite a bit longer, about 8 hours for the 40 minute movie, plus another 10 minutes to write it out to the DVD. Since this is usually the last step in the movie production process, it is not a problem. I just do the final DVD rendering overnight.
I assume rendering times are reduced if you have a more powerful computer. All editing functions ran without problems and very quickly.
The software can also be opened in two instances which allows you to produce sub-projects and then copy and paste them into the final production.
The learning curve is modest, but if you have used other video editing software, you should be able to get going in a few days. I had previously tried another product offered by Amazon (ULead) but it kept crashing and did not interface correctly with my video camera. Fortunately, Amazon gave me a full refund and I switched to Vegas Movie Studio. I would highly recommend it.
My final advice to high definition movie makers: use a tripod.
Great Novice to Intermediate Video Software September 24, 2008
CFH (Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The "Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9" is another fantastic entry into the outstanding Vegas family of editing software. We make instructional DVDs and have used Sony Vegas since version 4. While most of our videos are made using the higher end version Vegas Pro 8, I use the "Studio" version for home videos and quick edits.
What's included:
* Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Edition (editing software)
* DVD Architect Studio 4.5 (DVD authoring)
* Cinescore (sound track creation)
Here are my observations:
* Very intuitive and easy to use interface
* Huge selection of effects and transitions
* Support for HD video
* Burns Blu-Ray and standard DVDs from DVD Architect
* "Show Me How" interactive tutorials are very helpful
* Direct YouTube upload support
* Excellent Chromakey (green screen) capabilities
* Easy DVD menu creation
Other software that the novice/home user might want to consider is Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12 and Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack (see my reviews).
Over all, I highly recommend "Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9"!
 Don't Believe The Hype September 15, 2008
Bob (Midcoast Maine)
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
First off, let me say I'm editing this review for the third and last time. The reason for this is that I keep trying to work with the program and as such, I'm learning more and more, especially from professional and other forums.
For the record, I started with a trial version of Vegas 8, which I liked and probably would have bought. However, I had to leave town and my desktop for awhile and during this time my trial version expired. I had to go back to Sony and download the software again. Version 8 was no longer available so I downloaded Sony Vegas Platinum Version 9a. This is a review for Vegas 9a.
(Btw, if you have doubts about the veracity of this one star review, check out the forums at [...], specifically [...] regarding poor performance and hanging.)
My thoughts:
1. If you don't have at least 2 Gig of RAM, a Duo or better Core computer and 2 gHz or better processing speeds, don't even bother. People with 3 Gigs of RAM are having memory problems.
2. Sony on-line Tech support is virtually non-existent. I also got blocked from posting my problems to their troubleshooting page. I filled out all the required info, and then . . . zippo. That's frustrating.
3. My version of Vegas 9 wouldn't recognize Architect 4.5 even though it was installed on my machine. With Vegas 9's Make Movie Wizard I kept getting "Architect wasn't installed" messages. It was installed, but Vegas wouldn't recognize it -- even after two restarts. I then tried to install 5.0 and at the very end of the install I was informed that my computer didn't have the minimum requirements. My 5 hours of work are at this very moment locked up as a rendered-to-hard-drive Vegas Archive file.
4. Other than Vegas 9, nothing will open my rendered Vegas file.
5. Vegas 9 won't process my audio files with my video files. In other words, I can't drag and drop my files in their entirety to the Time-line. The video drags and drops, but it comes without the audio, which I know is there. Windows Media Player will play both video and audio of the raw uploaded SD file -- but not Vegas. I have the mute buttons off. My envelopes are not locked. For some reason, Vegas 9a thinks my video files have no audio tracks. This didn't happen with Vegas 8. Even with the same files.
6. Don't expect any tech support from Sony.
Conclusions:
a. I think it's very nice Sony offers a trial version of their editing software, but not so nice that it doesn't work very well.
b. Even if it worked flawlessly I think it's a process-heavy piece of editing software with way too much proprietary code.
c. Sony has you by the you know what because their HD Handycams record HD in AVCHD format. This leaves you only a few editing options of which I am aware. Vegas Movie Studio is one. Pinnacle is one. The third is Nero Ultra. (I think you can also do it with Apple's newest version of iMovie and Final Cut pro.) Moreover, Vegas 9 seems to support the idea that Sony wants to make sure they have a lock on your project and your money.
d. It would be nice if after you rendered a project with Vegas 9 that you would have a video in a format that was viewable and burnable by some other media and/or disc player.
Maybe Vegas 9 is OK. I'm obviously heavily biased against it. In fact, I'm ready to throw my HP out the window. A lot of people seem to think Vegas has a lot of features for medium-level video and audio editing. My experience is it's way more trouble than it's worth. If I were you, I'd seriously consider Pinnacle instead, or one of the older versions of Vegas.
SEABGB
Excellent Software for AVCHD editing September 9, 2008
Andrew J. Stafford (Saint Louis, MO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For those of you who are looking to edit AVCHD video I cannot recommend this software enough. I purchased Vegas 9 to edit video shot on my Canon HG10 AVCHD camcorder after being disappointed with Nero Ultimate (the renderings had interlacing problems in non-still shots). Being new to video editing, I didn't find the interface in Vegas very intuitive at first. However, after watching a few youtube tutorial videos I became quite comfortable in the environment. Also, Vegas 9 has some built-in tutorials for basic editing that I found quite helpful.
Don't just take my word for it, you can TRY it first for 30 days if you download the trial from Sony's website. I have a pretty powerful computer (Quad core, 4G RAM, 9800 GTX) so you might want to test it on your system before purchasing for AVCHD editing.
Great Novice to Intermediate Video Software September 5, 2008
CFH (Blue Ridge Summit, PA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The "Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9" is another fantastic entry into the outstanding Vegas family of editing software. We make instructional DVDs and have used Sony Vegas since version 4. While most of our videos are made using the higher end version Vegas Pro 8, I use the "Studio" version for home videos and quick edits.
What's included:
* Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Edition (editing software)
* DVD Architect Studio 4.5 (DVD authoring)
* Cinescore (sound track creation)
Here are my observations:
* Very intuitive and easy to use interface
* Huge selection of effects and transitions
* Support for HD video
* Burns Blu-Ray and standard DVDs from DVD Architect
* "Show Me How" interactive tutorials are very helpful
* Direct YouTube upload support
* Excellent Chromakey (green screen) capabilities
* Easy DVD menu creation
Other software that the novice/home user might want to consider is Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12 and Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack (see my reviews).
Over all, I highly recommend "Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9"!
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