SONY Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11

Pros: It came with a CD key

Cons: It was shiped in some over sided bag, that was crused as if someone jumped on it a few times.
I did make sure the DVD disk was okay and it was.
I tried installing this program and it would not open on my Win -7 64 bit system, but there is no data on the disk at all.. tried this on a few other PC XP, vista, win 32, and even in a MAC still noting...

Pros: POSSIBLY GOOD FOR HOME MOVIES -- I ALREADY WORK IN AVI FILES & DO NOT NEED TO SAVE FILES AS WHAT I HAVE -- WORTH THE $20.00 I PAID

Cons: DOES NOT MAKE A DVD FOR FRIENDS WHO DO NOT HAVE A COMPUTER OR NEWER BLU-RAY ETC PLAYER.. I LEARNED HOW TO COPY AVI'S TO DISKS YEARS AGO. NOT AS GOOD AS FREE STUFF AVAILABLE IN LINUX -- BUT PROBABLY CRACKERJACK FOR WINDOWS.. WHO AM I TO SAY. IF YOU CAN COPY AN AVI OR CAN NOT GET SOME FREE CROSS PLATFORM -- BUY THIS

Pros: This program is a good program to accompany a Sony HD camcorder, from those M2TS files it records into. I like how it supports nonnative codecs (I've heard some programs don't). There are plenty of effects you can apply to both video and audio.

Cons: AVI playback is horrible! I can easily play back 1280x960 AVI video at 30 fps in other programs perfectly fine, but this program can't even handle playing 640x448 video at 29.97 fps in real time as the video stops because it oddly can't decompress fast enough or something. At least it compresses to AVI without any problems of which another video editing program I actively use reads perfectly fine. Oddly, the "Lame MP3" audio codec won't work forcing me to use uncompressed audio and compressing it in another video editing program. Audio effects are hard to apply - it took 3 hours to figure out how to silence a specific part of a video's audio track as there are no native effects for that. The effects interface takes a long time to get used to. Except for the AVI case, the other issues are fairly minor.

Other Thoughts: I got this program because my primary video editing program is unable to keep up with playback (60% speed with my 4 GHz i7-2600K processor) for X264-encoded 1080i video. Thus, I got this program and it works well for the editing I do with my Sony-brand HD camcorder that I'm using more often now.

Pros: The ease of editing is my primary reason for going with Vegas. I've tried several other packages and others either don't have the nice out of the box features, or editing simple tasks requires too many steps. Once you commit to and learn the basics, you're quickly flying in Vegas.

Cons: Takes some dedicated learning time, but other video editing packages are similar unless you're using Windows Movie Maker.

Other Thoughts: If I just wanted to do ultra basic videos to upload to YouTube, I would not use Vegas. Choose Vegas if you're seriously into video editing and want to use a tool that many pros use.

Pros: When it worked it was great. Did what a low costing video editing software should do.

Cons: After a month or so it just stopped working. It won't even let me open the program anymore. All I receive is a "stopped responding" message, then it closes out. I have done everything possible to make this work. uninstall it, reinstall it: didn't work still. Went to SONY, they didn't even respond to my email. messed around with the files but all to no avail. please be smart and pass by this product.

Pros: The software is reasonable and one of the better video editing software products in this price range. But there is a huge problem that ruins the experience of this problem that must be mentioned - atrocious rebate handling.

Cons: I have never downgraded a product because of a problem with rebate processing but in this case I think it is necessary. I and very many others bought this software through New Egg (as opposed to another online store) BECAUSE of the $40 rebate. As pointed out here and many other places on the internet the company chosen to process the rebates has an abysmal record and large amounts of people have not received the rebates. New Egg's response has been that is not really their responsibility. But other New Egg software promotions appear to use the same rebate company and it is not clear to me that New Egg is not one of the party's involved in the selection. I personally have used New Egg for 8 or more years and ordered thousands of dollars of products. With three recent rebates all not being processed within the required time and getting the run around I will never buy from New Egg again if they do not take the appropriate actions to protect their own innocent customers.

Other Thoughts: I have made a complaint to Sony Creative on their facebook page. Sony says the are looking into this. Please go there and let Sony know if you have run into this same rebate problem.

Pros: When it worked it was great!

Cons: After a month of having it when I go and try to even open the software it says it stopped responding and I can't even get into the software to change anything internally to try and fix this. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it many times in many different ways but nothing seems to work. Very disappointed...

Pros: Good software steep learning curve. Newegg quick delivery.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I purchased this software around early September of 2011 I submitted 2 rebate for this software never received either of the rebates so, i am out $50.00. Do not buy this software with rebates, company that is processing these rebates has a very bad reputation.

Pros: Fast shipping, a lot of video effects, much better than anything I've used.

Cons: Constant need to register with Sony

Other Thoughts: It's a great video editor at an affordable price. It shipped to me in no time.

Pros: Feature rich. Intuitive layout.

Cons: This is about the video editor. No experience with the DVD authoring tool. I've used it extensively for 3 months. The editor includes plugins that haven't been compatible since version 4. (odd, they seem like they'd be interesting) Animating aspects of titles and text such as color, size, shadow and glow with keyframes does not work. Once you close the dialog or reload the file, it's no longer how you made it, but it's all randomized. To make it work, you need to create your animations, and render that portion of your video into a file, which is time consuming and shouldn't be necessary. It sometimes over-writes your prerendered videos that are inserted into the project with a background image while rendering your final output (a separate file). I'm using a Toshiba Satellite L555D if that matters. This program is buggy and Sony's Tech support is non-responsive.