Pros never need stabilization or they wouldn't be a pro. (;

It's the rest of us who do! and the shakey stuff we have to edit from friends, family and the occasional client.

in general, people who make $$ doing this kind of thing have their own way of doing it. IE they may have AE or Boris, which would do a much better job. So it would be like offering free computer speaks in a box when you're selling Acid.

But I'm 75% sure it will have it.

Well, I half agree. We get paid to use better gear but what about a shot on ATV's?

While mounts will keep your expensive camera from falling off, there is
plenty of vibration that can spoil the shot. Post stabilization is still needed.

I certainly agree, all of us at some time or another are faced with challenges that require the use of image stabilization.
Then again there's already a plethora of solutions from free to moderately priced so it's hardly a pressing issue. Much better I feel for the money we'll pay for this to be spent on features that are needed by the pros for which there's no or none easy workaround.

Bob.

For consumers who are almost always hand held and shakey, stabilization availability is important to have in the NLE. I use it much less so I have bigger fish to fry in development of an NLE.

I haven't heard anyone mention vReveal from MotionDSP as a stabilizer. It is about $39, it is CUDA excellerated, and it does a nice job of uprezing by looking at multiple frames for finding details that are missing for the higher res output.

KK

I think people are misunderstanding what I'm saying: I'm not saying people who use Vegas Pro couldn't use some kind of motion stabilization, I'm saying the person willing to put down ~$600 on a program would most likely be willing to put down another $600 (heck, even $60) on another program to greatly expand what they do. If I wanted motion stabilization I already have that taken care of because I was willing to spend the extra $$ on the higher-end Vegas & a plugin. Yeah, it could be useful, but I'm not very confident a motion stabilization plugin in a $120 program will be better then Boris, AE, syntheyes, etc. which have a lot more functionality too. And most of us here already have something we use as a plugin with Vegas to do motion stabilization.