Do you use both Pro and Movie Studio?

Kimberly wrote on 10/29/2010, 7:50 AM
Hello Everyone:

Here is a question for those folks who own both Pro and Movie Studio.

Now that you own Pro, do you still use Movie Studio? Maybe Pro is better for some projects and Movie Studio is better for others?

The supposition here is that you started with Movie Studio and upgraded to Pro. But you could have started with Pro and purchased Movie Studio as a way to share a lower cost/simplified version of the product with others who might work on video with you.

Regards,

Kimberly

Comments

Editguy43 wrote on 10/29/2010, 1:40 PM
Great question,
I started with Studio version 6 ( I outgrew and was tired of Pinnacle Studio 7) I was hooked from the start, had to learn a different way of editing trimmer, multiple tracks, things like that but I was able to get up to speed very quickly and have never looked back. I went version 7, 8 skipped 9 and now have 10 production suite love it.
I got Vegas PRO 8 on a special deal from B&H photo at the time I needed more tracks than 4 and wanted the advanced color correction among other things. I have now 10 PRO and like it very much.
I still use studio, my kids have 8 on their computers and are learning it, my daughter used it for her high school graduation video, my son has put together funny animal slideshows. my younger son uses Acid to make music. My wife has 8 PRO on her computer as well as 10 Studio she is starting to use it more as she learns it. (the pinnacle habit is hard to break)
Anyway I find that for small to medium projects that don't lots of layers of very advanced CC, Studio is great, and I have no problem using it, and it is a wonderful learning tool for the kids, as it is so similar in use and now GUI that if and when they need to power of PRO they will not have to relearn what they know.
With Studio 10 it might take allot to make someone go PRO it is a very capable product now.
One thing that makes me like PRO better is the use of scripts in many tasks it makes quick work of those tasks, also the amount of third party plug-ins like Ultimate-S, Productions Assistant and Excalibur make PRO well PRO
Studio will always have a place in my home and shop as a low cost yet powerful NLE you can have 4 seats for the cost of 1 pro seat and still be very productive.

Hope this helps and does not bore..

Paul B
Tim L wrote on 10/29/2010, 2:16 PM
I'm just a casual home hobbyist user. I started on VMS 4, then on to VMS 6 when it came out a few months later.

I switched to Pro when the next version of VMS came out and it still had only 4 tracks for video. I bought the Vegas Pro 6 CD-only deal from B&H for $99, then upgraded it immediately (in a week or two) to Vegas Pro 7 for another $150 right when 7 was coming out. I have 8 now, and will probably upgrade to 10 and pass Pro 8 on to my daughter.

I do use some of the pro features -- I make use of the bezier masks occasionally -- but it was the additional tracks that made me upgrade. If VMS had 10 tracks back then, I might still be using VMS.

I still have VMS 6 installed, but I only use it if I see a post here on the VMS board and I'm trying out a feature to see if I can help out.

VMS projects can be opened in Pro, but there's no way to save a project from Pro so that it can be opened in VMS.

Tim L
richard-amirault wrote on 10/29/2010, 6:12 PM
I started with Movie Studio (before it was even called "Movie Studio"). My last version was MSPlatinum 8.

I was able to get one of the B&H OEM disks of Pro 8, then upgraded to Pro9 and (recently) Pro 10

I still keep Movie Studio on my computers but work with the Pro version when I edit. It's hard to learn everything about these editors and I would rather learn about the Pro version while doing a project.
Richard Jones wrote on 10/30/2010, 3:45 AM
I upgraded to Pro from Vsome years ago. It has so many extra features available and you can never be certain whether you will need one of these until you are actually editing the project --- if you're on VMS it's too late by then.

I very soon uninstalled VMS after making the uograde to Pro and, frankly, can see no point in keeping the two programmes available as everything you need (and more ) in VMS is there for you in Pro.

Good question, though.

Richard
Tim L wrote on 10/30/2010, 6:07 AM
One thing the current VMS has that I haven't seen mentioned as a feature in new Pro 10 is the automatic slideshow creator.

Pro 10 did get the new built-in stabilizer that VMS has, but I haven't heard any mention of it getting the slideshow thing. Of course there are add-on products for Pro that give you that capability, I think, but it would be nice to have that built-in, with no extra cost.

(I haven't purchased Pro 10 yet or downloaded the trial, so I'm not 100% sure of this, but I just haven't seen anyone mention it as a new feature.)
jetdv wrote on 10/30/2010, 7:26 AM
My personal thought... If you own both Movie Studio and Pro, why WOULD you use Movie Studio and limit yourself? If I owned both, I would only use the Pro version because I then have ALL the features available to me.
Editguy43 wrote on 10/30/2010, 9:30 AM
If you have several editors and a limited budget where you can't afford to put PRO on all workstations then having VMS and PRO makes sense, you can put editors on VMS when they don't need the full power of PRO and yet still bring their projects into PRO if you run into things that Studio can't handle.

It also makes a great training ground for new editors or for those who switch over from another NLE without having to spend money for PRO.

my2c
Paul B
richard-amirault wrote on 10/30/2010, 12:00 PM
If you own both Movie Studio and Pro, why WOULD you use Movie Studio and limit yourself? If I owned both, I would only use the Pro version because I then have ALL the features available to me.

No .. Movie Studio occasionally gets features before the PRO version. For instance the importation of DVD disks was first in Movie Studio, and (recently) the anti-shake and slide show options were first in Movie Studio. There may have been others, but those are the ones I know about.
Kimberly wrote on 10/30/2010, 1:50 PM
That was one of my thoughts on why you would keep both Pro and MS around.

I worked in a small business where we gave Microsoft Office to a handful of "power uses" and everyone else got Open Office -- with 99% of the Open Office users not knowing that they didn't have the "real" Office. Although we were small by big business standards, we had about 10 power users and about 30 non-power users, so it saved a fortune on licenses!