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Chienworks wrote on 2/27/2006, 4:12 AM
Really, no one can answer that but you because we don't know what the price difference is worth to you. Personally, i think it's an absolute steal. If you can't think of anything you want to use the new features for and you're getting what you need to get done in version 4, then it would be a waste of money.
s k r o o t a y p wrote on 2/27/2006, 5:24 PM
someone else talked about some of the upgrade features somewhere on here. might want to search. i know that a couple of tracks are added for starters.
Tim L wrote on 2/27/2006, 7:15 PM
Here are comments I made a couple of months ago, in this thread:

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=12&MessageID=427674

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Subject: RE: Should I upgrade
Reply by: Tim L
Date: 12/15/2005 12:48:35 PM

Here's a link to a thread from when VMS 6 first came out.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=406287&Replies=44

(one of these days I'm going to have to learn how to post that as an actual hyperlink...)

I started with version 4 for just a few months, then moved to 6 when it came out. Some of the new feature's in 6 that I find useful are:

- Keyframes for pan/crop and for all effects. With ver 4, you could only specify a "start" value and a "end" value for effects and pan/crop. With ver 6, you can change values multiple times in an event. On pan/crop, for example, you can pan and zoom all over the place, change directions, etc., without having to break the clip into multiple events.

- "Reduce Interlace Flicker" setting (a "switch") can be enabled individually for each event. This helps when working with still photos, to get rid of the "shimmer" in fine detail, and to get rid of flicker and moire interference when zooming in or out.

- Reverse Video (or audio) events. At first, I thought this would be useful only for comedy -- show a person falling down, popping back up, etc. However, I find myself using the Reverse function quite a bit. If I have a video clip that pans from left to right, while I'm editing I might decide that a pan from right to left would look better. As long as nobody's shown walking in the clip, and no cars are driving by, you can reverse it and get the right-to-left pan, and nobody will even notice that you're actually playing the clip backwards.

- You now get 4 video and 4 audio tracks.

- You can do Parent-Child compositing, and track-motion, though I confess I haven't really used either of these features yet.

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Tim L

jimmyz wrote on 2/27/2006, 7:56 PM
My favorite difference is the ability to undock windows and spread them out between
2 monitors. Really helps me.
ctrl-alt-del wrote on 2/27/2006, 9:45 PM
I know my question is relative, but what I was looking for were comments, opinions and more information. That's exactly what I received. Thank you!

For $40 extra, what the heck...I might as well upgrade! Or is 7.0 right around the corner?? ;)