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Vegas Movie Studio 8 | 
 enlarge | From: Sony Creative Software
Category: Software
List Price: $89.95
Buy New: $49.99
You Save: $39.96 (44%)
New (10) Used (3) from $45.00
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 365
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.3
nv:Software Type: Audio/Video Authoring
OS Compatibility: PC
MPN: MSVMS8000
Model: MSVMS8000
UPC: 855309686789
EAN: 0855309867386
ASIN: B000RLQNQ2
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new never opened or registered with key intact
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| Features:
| • | Take your digital video and photos to a new level | | • | Create and share movies and slideshows | | • | Produce videos for popular online sharing sites | | • | Follow along with Show Me How tutorials, or learn as you go | | • | Make personalized DVDs with custom navigation |
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Product Description
Be it by camcorder or by digital camera, Sony's Vegas Movie Studio leads the way with this new version of Video imaging, editing and enhancement software. It's more intuitive and easy than ever. Coupled with DVD8, sharing your final productions couldn't be easier. Whether played on a DVD player or a computer, it's ready to entertain and excite all you hold dear.
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software makes video editing easy and fun. Best of all, Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software is a real-time nondestructive video editor. No matter what changes you make to your video and photos in the software, your original files are never affected! Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software gives you the freedom to experiment and have fun with video editing, without worrying about making a mistake. Native VST effect and DirectX audio plug-in support increases your options for effects you can apply to your audio tracks. ACID loop support - Video scoring and audio mixing is easier than ever with ACID loop support. ACID loops contain special meta data that enables Vegas Movie Studio + DVD software to easily match tempo and key in real time. Use Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software to - Add special effects, transitions, titles, and music to your home movies for Hollywood-style results, Zoom, rotate, and pan across photos to animate still images in your movies Make your own DVDs with multiple motion menus and custom navigation Commemorate special events such as weddings and anniversaries Create exciting, professional-looking business presentations
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Take your digital video and photos to a new level with Vegas Movie Studio Video Editing and DVD Creation Software. Easily create captivating videos with professional tools, sharing your creations online or by authoring your own DVDs. 
Quickly transfer video and digital photos to your computer | 
Drag and drop to create polished movies and slideshows | 
Make your own DVDs or format videos for online sharing | Video Editing and DVD Creation Software
Say farewell to boring home movies and vacation slideshows. With Vegas Movie Studio software you can create captivating videos that beg to be watched again and again. Add professional pizzazz with transitions, titles, and special effects including the green screen technique. Quickly format movies for online sharing sites or author your own DVDs. Our exclusive Show Me How tutorials help you get started fast. Just follow along with the step by step instructions and learn as you go. Video Editing Made Easy
- Create and share movies and slideshows
- Uses basic commands such as cut, copy, and paste
- Interactive Show Me How tutorials actually show you what to do
Perfect for Online Video Sharing
- Make videos for Grouper, YouTube, MySpace.com and other sites
- Export to popular formats including QuickTime and Windows Media
- Built-in tools for video restoration and soundtrack creation
Add Movie Magic
- Drag and drop to add effects, titles, and filters
- Nearly 300 customizable effects including green screen effects
- Play video in slow, fast or even reverse motion
The Perfect Soundtrack
- Import music from CDs and MP3s or record your own voiceover track
- Includes 1,001 sound effects
- Audio restoration tools to remove clicks, pops, and other unwanted noise
Simple DVD Creation
- Author and burn professional-looking DVDs
- Create custom menus, buttons, backgrounds, and navigation
- Includes 44 easy-to-use DVD themes to get you started
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 My Favorite Editing Software, Hands Down! August 3, 2008
Digital Gold Pictures (Sacramento, CA USA)
I have used the Sonic Foundry 4.0 Version of this software and decided to upgrade to this one. I have not used this version EXTENSIVELY yet, but from what I have seen, it looks to be almost the very same program with only a few changes. At least I won't have to re-learn the software! I have made VERY professional videos using the 4.0 version, so this version will only make them better! The Price of this Program is amazingly low compared to how much stuff it can do for you! I like the new Sound Effects that come with this version, although it says there is 1001 sound effects when it looks to actually be 969 effects. The simple REVERSE tool is cool and easy to do and it works on both the Video Tracks as well as the Audio Tracks! The built-in Tutorials Feature is SUCH a plus for a beginner or for someone learning the new features. If you wish to see what this program is capable of, watch my movie trailer on YouTube called "Splinter Cell Fan Film Trailer" or the full movie called "Splinter Cell Fan Film Movie". I have had a chance to try other editing programs, but for me, once I tried THIS one...I was hooked! THIS is the program I will always use...and I think you will feel the same if you try it!
Perfect for the Amateur who wants to look Pro August 1, 2008
Wayne Beckham (Fontana, CA USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you're an amateur (or wanna-be) home movie maker who's tired of the extremely limited Windows Movie Maker, but not yet ready for Final Cut Pro, then Sony's Vegas Movie Studio may be exactly what you're looking for.
Vegas is obviously aimed at the hobbyist videographer but still manages pack a boat-load of effects, fine controls and enough power to allow you to create professional looking videos.
However, Sony doesn't make it easy. The user's manual is so poor that any time you would've spent reading it would better used browsing the internet searching for 'Sony Vegas Tutorial.'
(Hint - YouTube and Expert Village have a ton of great on-line videos that'll walk you through just about anything you want to do with Vegas.)
Don't let that discourage you. Once you've figured out where all the various do-dads and settings are at, you can get really creative. In fact, the software is so good that the crappiness of the manual is a little hard to understand. There are pages describing common Windows functions, such as cut and paste, and exactly zero text describing desirable features, like, how to do a credit roll.
Aside from the useless manual (have I mentioned I really don't like the manual?) the other major limitation to your getting the most out of this software is completely out of Sony's control. To really get the full benefit of this software, you have to have two cameras.
Why two cameras? What separates the amateurs from the pros is editing. Editing is the process of splicing together a whole bunch of different pieces of film (or video) into a more interesting and visually engaging story.
For example, let's say you're sitting in a high school auditorium watching a play. On stage a man walks up to a woman they exchange a few words and she slaps his face. Pretty dramatic, right? Now let's take the same scene and edit it. We start with the same long shot of a man walking up to a woman. Then, the point of view (POV) changes. We see a close up of the man's leering face as he suggests a number of creative, but unlikely, ways to spend the evening. While this jerk is still talking, the POV changes again, this time to the woman who visibly becomes upset and then angry. Now the POV changes again - this time to a medium shot over the shoulder of the man, where you can see the back of his head and her angry face. Having had enough, she hauls off and gives this lecher a well deserved round-house punch knocking him completely out of the scene. See how much more impact is gained by focusing the viewer's attention exactly where you wanted it? And it was all done through editing a whole series of separate shots into a single flowing narrative.
If you get a chance to watch any of the first movies of the last century, especially the silents, you'll recognize that most of them shot without editing. A camera was planted square in the middle of the stage and never moved. The action moved into and out of view entirely out of the control of the viewer - in a theater at least you can focus your attention where you want it.
Eventually, someone realized that you could shoot a scene of someone walking up the steps to the US Capital, cut to a shot of him opening the door at the Supreme Court, then move the camera inside, where you saw the same dude walking into an office. Edited together, the audience just accepted that it was one running narrative and never knew that he was actually in three different places at three different times.
"So what?" you say. "I could do the same thing with one camera and the (aforementioned) Windows Movie Maker." And you could, if you had all day and was willing to invest a lot of time getting the same guy to wander around Washington while you took pictures of him. In fact, obviously stripping the facts down to the bare bones, Hollywood does exactly that. But you're not Spielberg and don't have his money or time. So that's where two cameras come in.
Let's say that you're going to video your daughter's dance recital or a friend's wedding (I do both on a regular basis.) You could plant your camera smack in the middle of the action and tape the whole thing.
Boring.
Now, let's suppose that you had two cameras: your personal Sony DCR-TRV530 and a friend's equivalent home camcorder. If you set up one camcorder on a tripod taking a wide shot looking over the minister's shoulder at the bride and groom then you have pretty much what everyone gets in a wedding home video. Knowing that, you craftily take the other camcorder and use it to get another POV, say a close-up of the groom's nervous, sweating face. Or, of the bride as she looks enraptured at the manly countenance of her betrothed. Or of the weeping mother of the bride. Or the scowling father who's mentally counting up the cost of this shindig. These are moments in time that you can never recreate and will never have another chance to shoot.
When you use Vegas to put all this together you've got more than your average home movie. Having the advantage of multiple points of view, you can now edit together a more visually engaging narrative than just having a stationary camera that never moves. And Vegas makes this easy.
Well, easy once you toss out the horrible manual and spend some time watching a bunch of YouTube-style videos.
Now that I've talked you into investing in a second camera (or finding a tolerant friend) let me take all this a step further and suggest that you may want to arm yourself with more information in the form of equipment and books.
I have nothing against the average 1 CCD home camcorder - I recorded a lot of my daughter's dance recitals on them. But, if you're really interested in quality, invest in a 3 CCD "prosumer" camera, like the Canon GL2 MiniDV Digital Camcorder w/20x Optical Zoom, or (if you've got the money) the Canon XL1 Digital Camcorder Kit.
For really getting a feel for what you can do to increase the "professional" look of your home movies (on a shoe-string budget), I recommend the The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide: A Down & Dirty DV Production. It's an easy read that will surprise you with the many simple things you can do to make your home movies more professional. Other books I recommend are the The Documentary Film Makers Handbook: A Guerilla Guide and the The Power Filmmaking Kit: Make Your Professional Movie on a Next-to-Nothing Budget.
However you go - the era of digital film-making is here. Since you're reading this review, you're a part of it.
 Problems Running With Vista July 28, 2008
Jesse E. Ketcham (Lake Riverside, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very capable product that provides loads of options for creating unique videos with a bit of familiarization time. It is not for the beginner and requires some time to begin to get a handle on the range of options available for different media events. There are parts of this product that are intuitive and other parts that are not; it will take time to become familiar with most of them if you are not an experienced video production person.
Unfortunately, even with a top-of-the line Dell running Vista, the product became somewhat unstable as the slide show and video production became larger, sometimes simply stopping and disappearing without any warning or error messages. I ended up saving my projects often, but the most frustrating aspect of this product is that it would not completely render the final project and could therefore not create a DVD, and this was for a show that was only five minutes long.
I began to peruse the knowledge base and suggestions, but found out that the most prominent suggestions were to disable system and startup commands and/or to reduce the quality of the still photos so that RAM wouldn't be a problem. What?? That's why I bought the product; to be able to produce high-quality output on my Quad-Core machine, not to whittle my project down to get it to run.
I then built the same project in Windows Movie-Maker in 1/2 the time, but without some of the neat features you can perform in Movie Studio, and was able to create a DVD. Bottom line for me? Great product but does not appear to be stable with Vista.
Keep-Up the Good Work June 11, 2008
Mr. Laurent A. Trahan (FLORIDA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good dealer , Great product at a great price and good service , on time delivery , keep-up the good Job !!!!!!!!!!
Very NICE! June 3, 2008
Kristi A. Johnson (Minneapolis, MN)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a 14 year old girl, and I absolutely love Sony Vegas. It may not be the easiest program to use, but once you figure it out (like I did) then you'll feel like a pro! You can have a lot of fun editing your movies and you can render them in many different formats such as .wmv, avi, mp3, etc. I'd say this is much better than windows movie maker because it is a lot more professional. I love using this and I hope you will too!
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