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The Sony Vegas Movie Studio + DVD 7 (Platinum Edition) is an easy-to-use editing program from one of Hollywood's leading motion picture studios. It lets you seamlessly capture your video and still images from digital devices, and add professional-quality effects, transitions, titles and music.
Easy Movie Making Features
With Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, you can easily capture video and images by quickly importing digital photos, video from DVD camcorders, DV, and even HDV. Simple actions such as drag-and-drop lets you create and edit movies and slideshows with effects, transitions, and music. And finally, you can share your project by burning your movies to DVD, VCD, or CD. You can also easily export to formats including QuickTime or Windows Media, or export as HDV back to your HD camera.
This Platinum Edition offers everything you get with the Standard Edition, such as easy drag-and-drop video editing, integrated DVD layout and burning, and Show Me How interactive tutorials. But the Platinum Edition offers several advanced features, such as advanced editing tools and other bonus materials, that will help speed you through even the most complex of movie projects -- from full-screen DV to widescreen HDV. If you want a package that allows you to "capture" images and video easily, while also offering powerful editing functionality as well as the ability to generate either a DVD, VCD or CD of your movie, then this might be the suite you've been looking for.
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 Show Me How tutorials, which are built right into the software interface, help you spend less time learning and more time creating. |
With Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, you can easily capture video and images by quickly importing digital photos, video from DVD camcorders, DV, and even HDV. Simple actions such as drag-and-drop lets you create and edit movies and slideshows with effects, transitions, and music. And finally, you can share your project by burning your movies to DVD, VCD, or CD. You can also easily export to formats including QuickTime or Windows Media, or export as HDV back to your HD camera.
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum includes the ability to easily import from finalized DVD disc recorded with Sony DVD Handycam camcorders. The Platinum Edition also includes four tracks for video and four tracks for audio, so you have a powerful editing and compositing environment at the tips of your fingers. With real-time audio and video event reverse functionality, you can reverse audio and video events on the timeline in real time, with no rendering required. Tape-style audio scrubbing lets you quickly scrub through your video to find specific sections, while native VST effect and DirectX audio plug-in support increases your options for effects you can apply to your audio tracks. And with ACID loop support, your video scoring and audio mixing is easier than ever. ACID loops contain special meta data that enables Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software to easily match tempo and key in real time.
The Platinum Difference
Compatible with the latest DV and HDV (high-definition video) cameras, Vegas Movie Studio Platinum software lets you import and edit high-definition as easily as standard-definition, so you can create stunning video projects including 16:9 widescreen. It also includes support for 601/709 color spaces and the CineForm intermediate codec for high performance HDV editing. You can export your high-definition projects back to your HDV camera, or to several delivery formats including Windows Media 9 HD, Real Media, and QuickTime.
The software lets you enhance your video with hundreds of professional 2D and 3D video effects, titles, and filters -- including over 400 effects and 400 transitions provided by the included SpiceMaster 2.5 TFX from Pixèlan Software. Also included are advanced video restoration tools, including three-wheel primary color correction so you can easily adjust differences in video due to camera setup or lighting; enhance washed-out footage; or make specific colors stand out.
With custom soundtrack creation features and bonus materials, including ACID XMC software, you can write your own original music in minutes. You have the option of importing your own music from CDs and MP3 audio files, or recording your own voiceover track. You can also customize your soundtrack with the included DirectX audio effects such as delay, reverb, chorus, EQ, and more. The Platinum Edition comes with Sony Pictures Sound Effects Series CD, a rich, exclusive assortment of 174 previously unreleased sound effects.
Over $200 of Free Extras
As a bonus, the Platinum Edition includes several extra pieces of software that are worth more than $200 US. In addition to the ACID XMC music creation software and the Sound Effects Series CD, you also get the 126-page DV/HDV handbook "HDV: What You NEED to Know," SpiceMaster 2.5 TFX from Pixèlan Software, advanced three-wheel primary color correction tools, and over 20 DirectX audio effects.
Product Description
With Vegas Movie Studio+DVD Platinum Edition you can import and edit video in nearly any format including HDV. Drag and drop to create movies and slide shows with effects, transitions, and music. Powerful video and audio editing tools for professional-level compositing, color correction, and 5.1 surround mixing. Enhance your video with over 500 customizable video effects and transitions including the exclusive NewBlue VideoFX MSP collection. Burn your movies to DVD, VCD, or CD, export directly to your PSP, or save projects to formats for iPod and other media players. Get up and running quickly with built-in tutorials and the included Vegas Movie Studio training DVD.
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
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My knowledge level going in was that of being able to make my own mp3s from CDs and copying the DVDs I record from TV on my Sony GX300 recorder. Beyond that I know nothing about how to create a DVD of any kind. Even iDVD on the mac is too cryptic for me to mess with.
This package is different. There are really two pieces of software in it and so far I've only used one. The two packages are Sony Movie Studio and the accompanying DVD Architect software, which is all I've needed so far.
DVD Architect is designed to work with media that is already in the condition you want it to appear. I used the instructions in the manual last night to create a DVD with the audio from 8 different CDs. After locating album art images on the internet, I was able to use these both for buttons on the main menu and for backgrounds during song playback. The software automatically added the song title to be displayed with each song on the DVD, in any font size or style I had available on my PC. I could have controlled each title individually for location, font and size, but I chose to make them all the same to save time.
Once I decided how I wanted to approach the project the rest was a breeze. I did have problems using the software to rip the audio tracks from the CDs, but I was able to use better software I already had on hand for that task.
The software is very capable and has a lot of controls, so it is easy to get overwhelmed. However, a "Show Me" function can be activated at any time and the manual is quite clear on how to do the basics, so after a little experimentation I had learned enough to know how I wanted to approach the project, which was the single biggest obstacle. It would actually have been easier if I was working with videos and didn't need to worry about the backgrounds or titles of the songs.
The end result is a professional looking DVD with a background image of the band on the menu and small album cover images for buttons to play any of the albums on disc. I was able to easily add a playlist button (band logo) at the bottom of the menu that would play all albums in order. The software allowed me to easily customize the button navigation (where a left cursor movement goes, for example) and test the result before burning to DVD.
The primary part of the package, Sony Movie Studio, is a multi-track audio/video mixer and is designed to create the videos that can then be assembled into a professional package in DVD Architect. A video DVD comes with the package, which shows you the various parts of the interface and how to perform basic editing techniques. While I haven't delved into it yet, I am confident that I will be able to create anything from moving background images and text for audio playback to my own music video using video I can capture on camera or download from Public Domain sources.
A couple of days ago I knew nothing about DVD creation, now I'm working on a design plan for my own music video, while listening to my first audio compilation on the stereo. This software rocks!
Some technical stuff I wondered about and now know:
* It will accept every audio, video and image format that I can think of
* It has full audio and video editing capabilities. You can build a movie from 30 frames per second of jpg images and can create a soundtrack of soundbites from a variety of sources.
* The editor is non-destructive in that it never modifies a source file in any way, relying on its own index files to store your mods.
* You can do full 5.1 surround audio, controlling every sound on each channel as you wish.
* Audio can be encoded in PCM 2 channel, AC3 2 channel or AC3 5.1 channel.
* It works fine on Windows 2000 Pro. Many new software packages will not function on anything other than XP.
* Although I have no point of comparison, it is pretty fast. On my 2.6 gig P4 with 1 gig ram (and a lot of other things open), it was able to "render" my audio DVD, including compressing one album in AC3 format to make it fit (the rest were PCM), in about 25 minutes.
Highly recommended for beginners and it looks like a pro could do just fine with all this can do. What was once a dark unknown is now my creative playground, thanks to Sony Movie Studio!
This package is different. There are really two pieces of software in it and so far I've only used one. The two packages are Sony Movie Studio and the accompanying DVD Architect software, which is all I've needed so far.
DVD Architect is designed to work with media that is already in the condition you want it to appear. I used the instructions in the manual last night to create a DVD with the audio from 8 different CDs. After locating album art images on the internet, I was able to use these both for buttons on the main menu and for backgrounds during song playback. The software automatically added the song title to be displayed with each song on the DVD, in any font size or style I had available on my PC. I could have controlled each title individually for location, font and size, but I chose to make them all the same to save time.
Once I decided how I wanted to approach the project the rest was a breeze. I did have problems using the software to rip the audio tracks from the CDs, but I was able to use better software I already had on hand for that task.
The software is very capable and has a lot of controls, so it is easy to get overwhelmed. However, a "Show Me" function can be activated at any time and the manual is quite clear on how to do the basics, so after a little experimentation I had learned enough to know how I wanted to approach the project, which was the single biggest obstacle. It would actually have been easier if I was working with videos and didn't need to worry about the backgrounds or titles of the songs.
The end result is a professional looking DVD with a background image of the band on the menu and small album cover images for buttons to play any of the albums on disc. I was able to easily add a playlist button (band logo) at the bottom of the menu that would play all albums in order. The software allowed me to easily customize the button navigation (where a left cursor movement goes, for example) and test the result before burning to DVD.
The primary part of the package, Sony Movie Studio, is a multi-track audio/video mixer and is designed to create the videos that can then be assembled into a professional package in DVD Architect. A video DVD comes with the package, which shows you the various parts of the interface and how to perform basic editing techniques. While I haven't delved into it yet, I am confident that I will be able to create anything from moving background images and text for audio playback to my own music video using video I can capture on camera or download from Public Domain sources.
A couple of days ago I knew nothing about DVD creation, now I'm working on a design plan for my own music video, while listening to my first audio compilation on the stereo. This software rocks!
Some technical stuff I wondered about and now know:
* It will accept every audio, video and image format that I can think of
* It has full audio and video editing capabilities. You can build a movie from 30 frames per second of jpg images and can create a soundtrack of soundbites from a variety of sources.
* The editor is non-destructive in that it never modifies a source file in any way, relying on its own index files to store your mods.
* You can do full 5.1 surround audio, controlling every sound on each channel as you wish.
* Audio can be encoded in PCM 2 channel, AC3 2 channel or AC3 5.1 channel.
* It works fine on Windows 2000 Pro. Many new software packages will not function on anything other than XP.
* Although I have no point of comparison, it is pretty fast. On my 2.6 gig P4 with 1 gig ram (and a lot of other things open), it was able to "render" my audio DVD, including compressing one album in AC3 format to make it fit (the rest were PCM), in about 25 minutes.
Highly recommended for beginners and it looks like a pro could do just fine with all this can do. What was once a dark unknown is now my creative playground, thanks to Sony Movie Studio!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Whew...what a relief. A product that actually works out of the box. I have spent the last week (literally) trying to create a simple DVD of our church's Christmas Play using Roxio's Easy Media Creator 9 and could not get it to do anything but screw up my Windows Media Center Edition 2005 settings. (See my review on Roxio Easy Media Creator 9)
Sony's Vegas Movie Studio + DVD 7 Platinum Edition was totally different. I got the product yesterday and two hours later after installing the program and doing all of my fancy edits...Ta Dah...A finished DVD just in time for my Christmas Party.
This product was very easy to use and I simply love the Dual product manuals for DVD Architect Studio and Vegas Movie Studio + DVD programs. I wanted a program to edit my home videos from my Sony Digital Camcorder, capture onto my computer, edit out any unwanted material, add special effects, correct any audio problems such as hum and noise, and have the ability to burn it all onto DVD without having to take a college course to do so. Well this program did not disappoint me.
The only reason I do not rate this at 5 stars is because at the time of this review it does not import drv-ms format, the format that Windows Media Center Edition captures from a TV Tuner. This is not that big a deal since there are FREE utilities to convert drv-ms format into mpeg2, a format that this software does import.
Thanks Sony...I am so glad your product does everything that you said it would!! Whew, what a relief!
Sony's Vegas Movie Studio + DVD 7 Platinum Edition was totally different. I got the product yesterday and two hours later after installing the program and doing all of my fancy edits...Ta Dah...A finished DVD just in time for my Christmas Party.
This product was very easy to use and I simply love the Dual product manuals for DVD Architect Studio and Vegas Movie Studio + DVD programs. I wanted a program to edit my home videos from my Sony Digital Camcorder, capture onto my computer, edit out any unwanted material, add special effects, correct any audio problems such as hum and noise, and have the ability to burn it all onto DVD without having to take a college course to do so. Well this program did not disappoint me.
The only reason I do not rate this at 5 stars is because at the time of this review it does not import drv-ms format, the format that Windows Media Center Edition captures from a TV Tuner. This is not that big a deal since there are FREE utilities to convert drv-ms format into mpeg2, a format that this software does import.
Thanks Sony...I am so glad your product does everything that you said it would!! Whew, what a relief!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I was looking for a product that supported Dolby 5.1 surround since my video camera records in this format. This package does this and more. It takes some time to get used to the interface and learn how to add effects, but so far it has not disappointed me and it produces great DVD's.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Great product - great price
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Published on August 11, 2007 by Bart Simpson
Well worth it!
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Published on July 17, 2007 by Heather A. Butchy
Powerful editor for amateur videographers
I did quite a bit of research before purchasing VMS Platinum and I was not disappointed! I have an old Athlon 2200+ system that I built myself about six years ago. Read more
Published on June 28, 2007 by Brett Weaver
Excellent but...
Excellent software but is not compatible with windows VISTA!!! I couldn't install the DVD architectural software on that platform and the Vega studio does not properly run either!
Published on June 27, 2007 by Francisco J. Diaz
Professional product at consumer pricing
I know that there are lots of free or shareware programs out there that do many of the same things, but getting it all in one bundle is a really good deal. Read more
Published on June 26, 2007 by Eldon Snippet
Rock solid on XP
What a great piece of software. Installed easily (on XP), loads fast and handles everything I throw at it. Read more
Published on June 11, 2007 by Lance W. Hanson
great product!
This software is great. It delivers everything it promises. I had never done video editing before. I had tried Adobe Premier elements before and it was very confusing. Read more
Published on June 8, 2007 by A. Priego
Vista and AVCHD Codec only supported in Vegas 8
Vegas 7 installed and worked fine with MS Vista, with some minor problems. However, Sony warns that Vegas 7 will never be supported on Vista, not even in a future minor version 7... Read more
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