Sony Vegas Pro 10.0b

Mick Leong

Reviewing 10.0b (Jan 2, 2011)

The software is generally good - easy to use. There are a few issues that seems to be overlooked:

1. The s/w is NOT wide screen friendly - many menus (especially the creating DVD menu to allow selection of video,audio, params) overshoots the screen and makes it very difficult to click the OK button.

2. The marker and region appears too close. Many time when creating or moving a marker you can end up creating a region and this is real messy, There is no feature to delete/reset region and you have to drag the start and stop region point back to the extreme left otherwise the s/w will only render that small section. So far this is the most frustrating issue.

3. There appears to be duplicate settings for rendering DVDs. There is a File/Properties and then there is the custom menu during DVD creation.

4. DVDarchitect will always re-render the audio regardless of what you select in Vegas. This is strange and frustrating. I do not understand why there is no option to render audio without requiring re-rendering dvdarchitect.

5. There is no backward compatibility - it cannot create VCDs! You have to reconsider if you want a more general package that will write VCD, DVD & BlueRay - otherwise you have to buy more than 1 s/w.

6. Somehow it does not want to import videos created by divX.

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