Here's a link to a thread from when VMS 6 first came out.

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=406287&Replies=44

(one of these days I'm going to have to learn how to post that as an actual hyperlink...)

I started with version 4 for just a few months, then moved to 6 when it came out. Some of the new feature's in 6 that I find useful are:

- Keyframes for pan/crop and for all effects. With ver 4, you could only specify a "start" value and a "end" value for effects and pan/crop. With ver 6, you can change values multiple times in an event. On pan/crop, for example, you can pan and zoom all over the place, change directions, etc., without having to break the clip into multiple events.

- "Reduce Interlace Flicker" setting (a "switch") can be enabled individually for each event. This helps when working with still photos, to get rid of the "shimmer" in fine detail, and to get rid of flicker and moire interference when zooming in or out.

- Reverse Video (or audio) events. At first, I thought this would be useful only for comedy -- show a person falling down, popping back up, etc. However, I find myself using the Reverse function quite a bit. If I have a video clip that pans from left to right, while I'm editing I might decide that a pan from right to left would look better. As long as nobody's shown walking in the clip, and no cars are driving by, you can reverse it and get the right-to-left pan, and nobody will even notice that you're actually playing the clip backwards.

- You now get 4 video and 4 audio tracks.

- You can do Parent-Child compositing, and track-motion, though I confess I haven't really used either of these features yet.

Tim L

i used movie studio 4 for a while and upgraded to vegas 6. I enjoy all the cool extras it can do. However, I can't capture with 6 -only with vegas movie studio 4 - and only when I don't set preferences to capture to my big hard drive. If I try to send capture to a dedicated drive it drops frames like mad. I have a matrox Rt.x capture card. Thought you might have some insight.

I found (and bought) Vegas Studio 6+DVD for $89 at Best Buy today with a $30 rebate.

Not sure what the upgrade price would be for you, but $60 isn't bad.

Edit: AND, an addition $30 rebate if you have proof of another product such as Pinnacle, uLEAD, etc..