
Over the years design changes were made to make it easier to handle but I don’t think Sony ever actually grasped the concept of easing a new user into a totally foreign piece of software. Unfortunately the result of that was a very well equipped piece of software that was an absolute nightmare to learn or understand unless you were a pro editor.

The product grew out of some of the very first digital video editing software made by Sonic Foundry, later purchased by Sony which ultimately became Vegas Pro.Īll of those early editors were designed around the existing terminology, techniques and workflows of professional film editors to make them more attractive to that specific market.Īt some point the geniuses at Sony (the owners at the time) worked out that video editing was finding its way into the consumer market so they decided to create a “home user” version of the software. Movie Studio was always a bit of an oddball within the consumer level video editing software market over the years mainly due to its origins. Now before I embark on this full Vegas Movie Studio 17 review I think it is important to address why Movie Studio in many ways sits outside the box when it comes to consumer level video editing software. So just as I do whenever I am embarking on any new review, here is a video from Vegas Creative showing a reasonably complete run through of the software and what it looks like. This Vegas Movie Studio 17 review marks the fourth release of the software since Magix bought out the entire Sony Creative range of video and audio editing products a few years back now.ĭespite the doomsday rumblings at that time as to what what Magix was going to do with the software, the company has steadily continued development with very good results. If you were interested in video editing software at the level of Vegas Movie Studio then you can go to this page for my alternate suggestions. I will leave this old review here for the moment for the sake of completeness. simply did not have the resources to maintain Movie Studio so it was dropped in favor of concentrating on the Vegas Pro line.Ī simple explanation and totally understandable and showed that there was absolutely no need for Magix to engage in such deceptive behavior.Īs of the beginning of 2022 Vegas Movie Studio has been completely removed from the Vegas site and is no longer available. However what that release turned out to be was a rebranded version of Magix’ existing consumer level program, Movie Edit Pro and NOT Vegas Movie Studio.Įventually the truth came out that the reason for the change was that the Vegas team in the U.S.

They released an upgrade to Vegas Movie Studio which probably should have been version 18 and embarked upon a sales and marketing campaign to back up that new release.

Towards the end of 2021 Magix quietly retired Vegas Movie Studio in what some may say was rather a deceptive way.
