Manual for VMS8

moorsel wrote on 7/29/2007, 1:45 AM

Hi,

I just upgraded from VMS Platinum 6 -> 8 and I am not able to find the manual. For version 6 I used the manual of Vegas 6 (sections that didn't apply for the VMS product were marked with something like "this option is only available in the full product). Is there a manual for VMS8 as well?

Gr,
Frank

Comments

ritsmer wrote on 7/29/2007, 9:32 AM

There is a Quick Start Guide for VMSP 8 here:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=760
and for the Full Vegas 7.0 here:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/step2.asp?DID=696

As far as I remember the 7.0 manual does not anymore show which features are not available in VMSP (was a good thing in the 6.0 manual) - but it is a very good manual for "The Finer Art" of editing anyway.

The Help in VMSP also gives many a good advice - specially the lower "What do you want to do" section.

As I see it the "problem" is that VMSP is SUPPOSED to be a "Light" version for not so experiences users - and giving them the Full manual might maybe overwhelm them....
Just my own opinion and no offence intended...
However the VMSP is close to a Full Blown editor and ceartainly suitable for medium to more experienced users as well.

What I mean is: I have had the latest versions of VMSP and Full Vegas for years and I tend to do more than 90 percent of my work in VMSP...

Conclusion: I think, that the Full Vegas manual still should show what is VMSP and what is Full Vegas.

Chienworks wrote on 7/29/2007, 1:47 PM

Call me cynical, but i have my suspicions that one of the reasons SONY has shipped a single manual in the past is to tempt the Studio version users with the features and power of the full version.

Is that true? I dunno. But i can imagine it has that effect.

Either that or it just frustrates them. *shrug*