will it be it’s own standalone video editor that will replace svp, what is it going to have that svp doesn’t, cost, release date, etc
It's going to be released on 5 August, only days away, which has already been advertised by MAGIX for some weeks since the 16/17 promotion began. Your questions will be answered early next week.
It will be another addition to the already confusing "Vegas" lineup of offerings. Vegas "Edit", Vegas "Movie Studio", Vegas "Pro" and now Vegas "Post". Just another offering to confuse you even more and make you predict the future of what you may or may not need within "Vegas". It will come bundled with some 3rd party plugins and some other Magix software which needs to be further promoted, all at a higher price point of the other Vegas.offerings, where those additions you're investing in eventually won't work with future releases of Vegas.
What else do you need to know?
Its basically the pro version of VP, i.e. it could really be called VPP. I guess marketing ran out of superlatives, or originality, see the checked items for Post, its got Pro potential.
Seriously though, not long to wait, personally I'm just looking forward to all of the other mentioned goodies in the main program, VP - P. Lets hope they put in a few fixes as well.
You guys both have it a bit off from what I can tell. Vegas Post is not a different version of Vegas, but a collection of apps that include Vegas Pro, Vegas Effects (think Adobe After Effects), and Vegas Image (Think Photoshop/Lightroom). The 3 apps all natively work with each other, just like Adobe's family of apps does.
The only thing I'm not sure about is if Image and Effects will be able to be purchased separately for people who bought standalone Vegas Pro.
Magix has been playing catch-up and is aware that Vegas needed an integrated compositing function to help compete with BMD Resolve's integrated and also available separately Fusion (I still use and prefer Vegas at home, but unlikely to upgrade from 16 and thinking that if Resolve introduces full screen second monitor preview without one of their cards, the race will be over).
What hitfilm offers is miles ahead of Resolve, so this isn't playing catch up, it's leaving them in the dust. As for the "race", it's going to take a lot more than that, especially with the new features in Vegas 17.
What hitfilm offers is miles ahead of Resolve
Yes, and the latest version - HitFilm Pro 13 released just days ago - has an updated Mocha HitFilm as well as a new camera tracker from The Foundry.
It's going to be interesting finding out how planar tracking has been implemented in VP 17.
I recall reading a comment from BorisFX that didn't give me hope VegasPost would come with a free/cheap version of Mocha (basic version) . They only mentioned support for the full expensive version. It would surely only be a licencing issue if Vegaspost doesn't come with a cheap Mocha. Such as if they believe their built in VegasPro planar tracker is just as good, which surely wouldn't be true, unless VP17 contains basic mocha, but BorisFX have already said it won't
I'm very curious about what it is exactly. Currently, I have both Vegas Pro and Hit Film, and honestly, there's no problem now working with the two, especially since Hit Film renders out nicely in .png sequences, and Vegas is awesome for importing .png sequences. I'm curious because Hit Film is trying to become an all-in-one video editing program, but seems light years away from where Vegas is for that. And of course, Vegas Pro can do basic composites but isn't really a compositing program and lacks 3D space. So I'm just curious what the nexus between them will be. Perhaps some sort of plug-in? IDK.
Tighter integration. When I right click on a video clip, there's an "edit in vegas effects" option. It doesn't do anything yet, but I think one click round trips back and forth are one advantage.