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Thank you, R. Proffitt, for the help finding some good...

Dec 27, 2005 5:11AM PST

movie making programs. Sony Vegas and Ulead Movie Factory 4. I finally purchased both programs and I must say Sony Vegas looks like it might do what I need. I've just barely gotten into it, playing with it and what not, but it seems to be able to do what I want.

UMF 4 seems to have a much cleaner and better interface. I bought it for the disc to disc copy feature. I have the demo of Ulead VideoStudio 9 and have made some rather spectacular photo movies with it. I intend also to buy it for the creation of photo movies and such.

Again, thank you very much

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You're welcome.
Dec 27, 2005 6:27AM PST

Those are the top banana picks from my world. AVID is on a list elsewhere but we came away shaking our collective heads that they must be thinking about their aging users and not creating something for the rest of us.

DEMOS are great to see if a package has what you like. Ulead will be doing fine as long as they keep the demo's coming.

Bob

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I'm finding Vegas to be excellent...
Dec 28, 2005 9:35PM PST

for the editing function. Incredibly complex, for me anyway, and will take a long amount of time to understand it fully if ever. DVD Architect which came with it is fine but a person would need to know how to use it effectively in order to get from it what Ulead MovieFac. will do automatically.

SV + DVD makes me feel about it like the original Grand Turismo video game made me feel: A very high quality, feature packed, value packed, deep and immersing product. Yet it isn't so complex that it is impossible to understand. It is difficult to understand but not impossible.

I'll be using SV for editing. UMF 4 for importing video making video DVDs and UVS 9 for making and picture movies.

I never would have discovered SV on my own so, thank you, again.

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Vegas is also excellent for making videos with still
Jan 2, 2006 4:46AM PST

photos if that's what you want to do. I've used it for powerpoint type presentations which have far more complex audio content (think several audio tracks) than Powerpoint is capable of supporting. In fact, most video editors cannot come close to Vegas in the number of tracks that can be used.