Customer Reviews
Pending further usage...
We just got this software a week ago, and so far we're impressed. We had 3 separate cd-rom of our son's demonstration team performances, and decided to compile all of them on one DVD for Grandma. It went pretty well, and probably took longer than it had to because we had to look at every little bell and whistle along the way. ^M
not all its reviewed to be
i did my homework, read the reviews and happily went purchase the sony vegas movie maker + dvd. They are very nice features as advertised, and its priced great, thats the only reason i gave it any stars, but it is NOT user friendly. The manual is haphazzard and disorganized and the show me how feature is great if you already know what you want to do and what its called in this software, otherwise you're basically randomly pushing buttons. Which I dont mind personally, i like experimenting with software, but I never could get the program to capture audio. It will record audio, but my doing a voice over of "this is my baby saying her first word" is not quite the same as actually hearing her on the video. NO help from sony, I emailed 3 days ago with only a form reply saying we got your email and will reply as soon as we can, and the phone service, you have to pay for...up to and beyond the amount of service, no thanks. This time I think I'll listen to cnet rather than user reviews and return this and pick up the pinnacle. Even if it crashes or freezes, Im not getting anywhere anyway.
Not for the weekender or neophyte
I give Sony Vegas 5 stars because I do fairly serious video production, and it's the only "consumer priced" video edit program that gives results similar to Final Cut Pro or even (dare I say it) Avid. For those who want "instant video," this is a one-star item, and you shouldn't buy it. ^M
