Vegas version confusion

[Pioneer4Life]

fwiw, I'm a complete noobie when it comes to video editing, dvd burning, etc. I bought the HV20 after reading lots of reviews. So far, I'm very happy. I've taken videos and watched them on my plasma screen via the HDMI cable...WOW!!

I'm going to want to now take tapes, edit them a little (clip beginnings off, endings off, tie multiple tapes together, add some menuing, some texts, and maybe some still images with the menu's, etc..). So I've been doing some online research and it looks like the Sony Vegas packages are a good deal and should do everything I need.

What I don't understand is what is the real difference between the Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition ($119) and the Vegas + DVD Production Suite ($524).

[Worley]

There is a comparison on the Sony Creative Media (http://tinyurl.com/2h8vo8) website.

Basically, the full version has more tracks, has video and audio 'buses', better colour correction, unlimited tracks, video scopes, and other things that pro users need like a media manager and scripting

VMS is ideal for less power hungry users (and it's Vista compatible). I started with VMS but moved onto the full version due to a generous upgrade offer.

[indyscott]

On my system the Vegas 7 full version runs better previewing that the VMS version.

Scott

[BarnOwl]

I just downloaded the new Platinum 8 (Vista) version and I am very pleased with it. Very stable and runs fine on Vista. I switched from Pinnacle 11 because I had constant crashes rendering in Vista (Not in XP)

[Rocha]

I switched from Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus to Vegas 8 Platinum a few weeks ago. Ulead offers very little support, crashes consistently, and offers less tools.

There are simpler programs out there, but this one does it best for my taste.