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BillyBoy wrote on 12/19/2002, 12:23 AM
Much too early to have a funeral...

SoFo has not said it is selling the consumer portion of their business. They may be, but even if they are, still much to early to get your shorts all in a bunch.
Cheno wrote on 12/19/2002, 12:56 AM
Wondering...

If I were your parents, I'd be worried about putting you in my will...
Wondering wrote on 12/19/2002, 1:06 AM
Cheno, ...

Thanks for the concern.

Anyway, How sad that VV has to end this way.....
bcbarnes wrote on 12/19/2002, 8:14 AM
Well, even if the worst happens, all it means is that there won't be any more updates for Vegas - but we would still have 3.0c, which is a pretty darned terrific piece of software.
surfnturk wrote on 12/19/2002, 10:43 AM
My Gawd Wondering,

I can only hope this is a year end Memorial, not an end of life as it appears. Why would you start FUD at this point? What is your motive? VV is a great product, let's allow the future to unfold and see where we end up. Not guess the outcome.
HPV wrote on 12/19/2002, 11:03 AM
Oh well, I tried. Since we have so many brains going 1000MPH here, I'll give you all something to put in your pipes to smoke. We call it a "safety meeting" up on the slopes.
Go to the top of this page, place your cursor on the "solutions" icon. See all the stuff you weren't even thinking about. Example:
The MediaCollective™
The MediaCenter™
MediaQC™
The MediaTaxi™
and tons more

Ahhh, now maybe we can STOP SPECULATING. Can we? If you really like Vegas, don't you think a little RESPECT to the owners is appropriate. I'm not saying SF is perfect and that this might not get ugly, but we won't be changing a damn thing from this forum.

Craig H.
rextilleon wrote on 12/19/2002, 11:48 AM
Why is a "certain respect to the owners is appropriate" THis is a public company and thus, the owners are the shareholders. Management has obviously made a mess of things. They have great products but are nevertheless facing bankruptcy. I guess the next thing you will say is that we should not be critical of such corporate luminaries as Bernie Ebbers et al.

Someone in management messed up. If I ran my business the way they have run Sonic Foundry, then I would have no clients and be living on the street. The run Sonic into the ground and we are suppose to forgive them and have patience?
williamconifer wrote on 12/19/2002, 1:29 PM
I have noticed something on this board. A bit of an inferiority complex if you will. The attitude goes like this: "Vegas is little known in the video editing world and such is the underdog. As a result Sonic Foundry is little known and an underdog. Who would pickup a little known NLE from a little know software company."

I come from the audio production side of things and in those boards Sonic Foundry is well known and respected. Acid and Sound Forge in many ways are the standard bearers of their product category. Vegas is in an uphill struggel in a very competetive product category. If they sell the audio/video production software it will be to someone like Twelve Tone (makers of Sonar/cakewalk) because they don't have an audio editor or video editor. OR to Steinberg in Germany who also doesn't have a NLE. Vegas, Acid and Sound FOrge has too many good things going on for it to go away. Remember the Logic was sold to Apple and they ended their PC support. This will leave a little market share available for Twelve Tone, Steinberg and SF. I wouldn't fret too much. I personally saw this shift away form audio/video prod. software to corperate media distribution about 8 months ago when I heard they didn't attend Europe's biggest music production convention (music messe). Give the credit to Computer Music Magazine for picking up on this.

jack
DAFenton wrote on 12/19/2002, 2:14 PM
speculating is fun :)

given the amount of care and quality given to the software aspect of Vegas to date, I have zero concerns about where it will end up. Vegas4 will arrive right on time and it will smoke.

-david abraham
wcoxe1 wrote on 12/19/2002, 2:18 PM
Thank you, Abraham. Now, lets get back to USEful things.
JLK wrote on 12/19/2002, 4:25 PM
I agree. Speculating is fun. I speculate that Vegas, Video Factory, Acid, and Sound Forge will be, or already have been sold to Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment Inc.

Here is a USEfull link:
http://www.screenblast.com/screenblast2/index.idml?identifier=sw_main_root&idmltype=ui
rextilleon wrote on 12/19/2002, 5:13 PM
Not right on time---that was suppose to be first quarter 2003---now we are looking at second quarter---I doubt that the beta has even been sent out to testers yet. I