Sony Movie Studio HD [Old Version]

by Sony

Product Features

• Video Editing Made Easy
• Perfect for Online Video Sharing
• Add Movie Magic
• Advanced Video and Audio Editing Tools

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.3 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002QWOKA6
• Item model number: MSMSHD9000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,374 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #38 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Video Editing

Product Description

Vegas Movie Studio HD, developed from our award winning Vegas Pro technology used in broadcast and movie studios around the world, is the easiest way to make your own professional-looking movies, and who better to provide you with that solution than Sony. Simply import your video footage or digital photos and arrange them on the timeline to start telling your story. Quickly edit out the parts you don't want and enhance the rest with transitions, titles and more. Sharing your creation is simple. Export to popular portable devices or publish online.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy, March 14, 2010

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Mr Sparky (TX, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Movie Studio HD [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

Looked like just what I needed to edit and convert AVCHD movie from a Sony camera. The features are there but this product is pretty much unusable. It crashes A LOT, some of the codecs included don't work and others outup video files that are corrupted. Waist of money.

Runing it on a Quad Core, 4 GB and SSD. Editing video from a Sony HDR-CX500V

1 month update - After many forum discussions I found some tweaks one may be able to apply to make this product work. It gets a bit technical but apparently some of the files included in this product are not set to address memeory space over 2 GB. If you have more then 2 GB as soon as your memory ussage exceeds 2 GB, the encoder crashes. There is a 3'rd party freeware you have to download to change the settings of about 6 files in this software and after that the product works much much better. It's unacceptable that Sony can't put out a patch to fix this when others managed to find a solution.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Buggy, but acceptable., May 19, 2010

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Christina "sassynebrasky" (Norfolk, NE) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sony Movie Studio HD [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

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Update 5/17/2011: Vegas movie studio hd platinum 10 is much better and I have had none of the issues as mentioned below. Check out Sony Imagination Studio 2.0 Suite which has Vegas hd 10, as well as full versions of sound forge, acid music, DVD architect, photo go, and royalty free music, all bundled together for only slightly more than this software. End of update.

Considering the price tag, I can't complain too much. However, it's buggy, shuts down sometimes when trying to import files, and overall I found it user unfriendly (despite Sony's attempt to make it easier with the tutorials). The tutorials are a nice addition, though they were not complete on many occasions and I had to just learn by trial and error.

My main complaint: Uploading Quicktime files was a nightmare until I found the answer after HOURS of searching on Sony's forums for this product. It turns out there is a known issue with Aiptek video files in that when you drag and drop the file into the timeline, the sound does not come over with it. The solution is quite simple to fix: Simply import your video from your camera or card, then rename it as an mp4 file. For example: file0001.mov renamed to file0001.mp4. Yep, that simple. Now drag and drop, and VOILA! there's the sound. It took me hours to find the answer for that, so I hope this helps someone.

The nice thing about this program is that there are tons of plug ins and features to add to your video (after your figure out how to do it), and I'm still in the process of perfecting this. It's definitely not a program with beginner in mind. However, once I look past the fact that it shuts down sometimes when importing, I like the program.

Rendering files as HD is time consuming unless you have a super fast or quad core computer. I have a dual core and it takes approximately 3-15 minutes of rendering per 1 minute of video (you do the math). Once it's rendered though, the video is spectacular. You have several options in which to render a file which is nice: non HD, 720 25fps, 720 30fps, 1080p 30 fps, etc.

Again, for the price tag, I can live with the bugginess. Would I recommend it? Not to a beginner or novice just looking to make simple movies.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most stable home video editor., January 9, 2010

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Retired Ron "RK" (MN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sony Movie Studio HD [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

Tried various video editors, and by far Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD 9 is the stablest of all. For the home user, enough features to do what you want without too much complexity. Fairly quick rendering too, on my 1.7Ghz Pentium laptop running Windows XP SP2.

Is the same product as Movie Studio Platinum but without the DVD Architect. I have another DVD authoring program so no problem there. Again, has never, ever crashed no matter what I put through it.