MainConcept MPEG "Professional" Plug-in

Vegas Mike wrote on 9/4/2008, 7:59 PM
I have Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0a, which comes with the "standard" version of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in, i.e., when I choose to render a project as MPEG2, all I have is a bunch of templates to choose from and the "Custom" button is greyed-out.

I noticed that you can purchase an upgrade to the "professional" version of the MainConcept plug-in on the Sony site (by following the Purchase/Software/Internal Store links).

Here's my question: does anybody know if this upgrade can be purchased for use with VMS Platinum?

Here's the puzzling part... I found a disclaimer elsewhere on the Sony site stating that the "professional" version does not work with "Studio" products... if we assume that VMS Pro already comes with the "professional" version of the plug-in (which I've heard it does), then who would the upgrade be for, if not for users of the "Studio" products? I'm confused!

Can anybody shed some light on this topic?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Comments

Wolfgang S. wrote on 9/5/2008, 9:48 AM
I think you can upgrade to Vegas Pro 8 - that is all what you can do.

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FourWinds wrote on 9/21/2008, 12:53 PM
This is my biggest gripe about VMS and really soured me on the purchase of this product. Pro is out of the question financially. I don't understand why Sony would cripple the prosumer product by disabling full HD export.

They would make me (and probably a lot of other people) very happy if they offered this capability as a plugin. I can afford a plugin, but not the full-boat professional version.