Reviews for Sony Vegas v.8.0 ProMusic Editing/Composing - Complete Product - 1 User - Retail - PC - MPN: SVDVD8000 
By member:
carolpetitt
- Dec 21, 2008
Vegas Pro 8.0Strengths: Easy to use. Weakness: High Definition Video on Vegas is currently not compatible with Vista Windows. The Vegas editing software is very easy to use. It has nice and non-complicated media generators and transitions for the user. It works very well with DVD Architect and Cinescore. You can also upgrade to Vegas 8.1 to make the High Definition Video even easier to use. With 8.1 you can see all the High Definition video without it skipping around (depending on your computer's processing speed and RAM). 100% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
By member:
astead5978
- Mar 17, 2008
Sony Vegas Pro 8Strengths: Tutorials; Capabilities; Lots of flexibility with options Weakness: Steep learning curve compared to other packages I have used. This is a great package, and I have already produced some professional looking results with it. The embedded tutorials are helpful, but I think one probably needs an instructor-led course to take full advantage of all its capabilities. 70% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
testseek.com - Oct 30, 2008
Sony Vegas Pro 8
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videomaker.com - Nov 30, -0001
Sony Vegas 8 Winner 2007 Best Video Editing Software
Sony's newest version of its pro-line editing suite offers professional quality, in-depth controls and an intuitive design. Plus, it comes packed with a high-quality DVD authoring program, as well as an AC-3 surround-sound encoder. Sound too good to be true? Let's open it up and find out. Vegas 8 recognizes the most common audio formats, such as MP3, WMA, AIFF and WAV. It can also render your... Top 
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DRM cripples software, buggy even when it gets...
Strengths: Has as many or more features than its competitors' products. Used by professional TV producers - "Survivorman," for example.
Weakness: Digital rights management protection makes network rendering configuration impossible, and customer service is horrendous. Bugs prevail.
I do not recommend purchasing Sony Vegas. The actual software itself is designed well and has an easy-to-use and intuitive interface, but bugs and poor support outweigh the positives.
I don't think I've been able to render a Vegas project once without some sort of showstopping problem. One time, I simply could not get the project to output in Windows Media format, no matter how many times I tried. Other times, I've tried to use the Sony ProType Titler plugin and it crashes randomly. And in order to get a Blu-ray disc to render with DVD Architect, you have to recompress the file even though the stream output by Vegas is supposedly Blu-ray compatible. Of course, quality is sacrificed in the recompression.
In addition, if you ever have a problem with Vegas, you will have to deal with people who have no compassion and adhere to draconian and nonsensical digital rights management policies.
When I reinstalled Windows, I lost my Vegas 8.0 registration key. I called technical support and gave them my address and customer information, and they said there would be no problem and that I was indeed listed in their database. However, the code they provided me came up with an "invalid activation code" error. They told me that the code was valid for Vegas 8.1, so I installed 8.1 and the error persisted.
Then, I got stuck with a CSR who repeatedly cut and pasted a script that was completely out of context with my questions. The script told me to provide the 8.0 registration code, which was the whole reason for the chat. Eventually, despite having all my information on file, including my registration code that now returned an error, they requested a receipt of my purchase. I provided them with the receipt, but then they told me that they would not honor it because the vendor was not on their list of sellers. It was not explained to me which sellers were on this list at the time of purchase, nor by Sony in its reply.
Therefore, I spent hundreds upon hundreds of dollars and have a useless pile of manuals and shortcut key cards with nice pictures on the CD covers. A simple search reveals hundreds of pirated copies of Vegas that can be obtained in an hour. Who in their right mind would spend five hours going back and forth with Sony trying to get a registration code if (s)he was a pirate? Digital rights management hurts only the legitimate user.
By the way, forget about using the network rendering service. Even when I was able to use Vegas, I tried configuring it on the three computers allowed by the license and still could not get it to work because the license files needed to be configured differently. I haven't had these issues with competitors' products, and one software company was even nice enough to refuse my money when I had a similar registration code loss in the past (!).
As a result of this mess, I was not able to honor my grandfather at his funeral because I could not finish his memorial slideshow. I will never forgive Sony for that, and will avoid their products in every way possible in the future. You should too.
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Aug 9, 2009
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