Farewell Movie Studio

D7K wrote on 5/25/2016, 10:12 AM

Will be interesting, but I did love MS suite - great product. But like all of the other acquisitions I've seen the chance of MS or even Vegas Pro living long doesn't look good to me.

Moved on to something else in the last month (actually a combination of two programs) and am upgrading to a much more powerful computer system (think Resolve) but for me until the QT issue MS and Mercalli 4.0 were the perfect system. I wish all of the MS users the best of luck in the future this has been a great forum.

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vkmast wrote on 5/25/2016, 10:33 AM

Thanks D7K and all the best with your new tools.

Altzone wrote on 6/10/2016, 5:41 AM

Why did they bother buying them if they are going to discontinue MS/Vegas which is one of the major products?

musicvid10 wrote on 6/10/2016, 6:20 AM

It's pretty simple; Magix wouldn't have paid to acquire Sony's soft assets and core developers if they intended to kill the product line. No sense in doing so -- the product will continue to evolve.

Altzone wrote on 6/12/2016, 4:26 AM

Is MAGIX's video editor on par with Sony MS/Vegas?
Perhaps MAGIX intend to scrap their own video editor and run with Vegas? and it was a better solution to buy Sony and get a better tool and the people than to improve their own existing program?

paulw2 wrote on 7/5/2016, 8:07 PM

maybe. But I suspect that it will be the same as when Corel bought Ulead and killed off all their products so you were left with a bunch of "lite" editing solutions. I still Miss Media studio pro but I moved to Sony Vegas a couple of years ago as it was relatively easy to understand..

vkmast wrote on 7/6/2016, 3:41 AM

From MAGIX Magazine 1 July, 2016
FAQ concerning Sony product takeover,
Quote:
"No overlaps with MAGIX video products are planned. All existing products (including Movie Edit Pro and Video Pro X) will be continued to be released in parallel and optimized with new developments and updates."
See also We have a timeline for V14.