I recently bought VMS6 based on reviews in the computer press and after having used the trial version. It's a nice, polished, quite of utilities, and DVD Architect will be incredibly useful (as will Acid).
However, I am surprised by the lack of some incredibly useful features. To put it in perspective, I was using Magix Movie Edit Pro 10 Plus, so the features I think are missing in VMS are ones I used extensively in MEP...
1. No Automatic Scene Detection. In MEP, there is a scene detection tool that works with both digital and analogue recordings. It does a great job. Just like VMS, however, MEP will automatically detect scenes in DV-AVI when it is used to import those DV-AVIs from tape.
2. No way to display the timecode in DV-AVIs. In MEP you can right click the AVI clip and have the timecode display as a title. This is invaluable when making home videos where to know the date is essential (I'm thinking videos of children here!).
3. No single keystroke to split and delete an unwanted clip. In MEP I can split a clip (T), and at the next split automatically have a segment deleted (K or U). I don't see a way to do this in VMS. I have to press S to split, then press delete. No great hardship, but when yuo're used to just one keypress it just seems a bit weird.
Now, to balance things... VMS is so much smoother to use. It's responsive. MEP crashes like hell and is very intolerant of files that do not meets its stict compliance criteria. For instance, it will crash when working with MPEG2 files recorded with Hauppauge PVR cards; it can never correctly sync audio and video in MPEGs; it crashes with DV-AVI files if the audio and video are out of sync. In fact, MEP is crash city.
Anyway, I'll get used to the foibles of VMS, and I know any problems I have will be sorted here... unlike in the MEP forums where Magix is next to useless.
Thank you Sony!
Worley
However, I am surprised by the lack of some incredibly useful features. To put it in perspective, I was using Magix Movie Edit Pro 10 Plus, so the features I think are missing in VMS are ones I used extensively in MEP...
1. No Automatic Scene Detection. In MEP, there is a scene detection tool that works with both digital and analogue recordings. It does a great job. Just like VMS, however, MEP will automatically detect scenes in DV-AVI when it is used to import those DV-AVIs from tape.
2. No way to display the timecode in DV-AVIs. In MEP you can right click the AVI clip and have the timecode display as a title. This is invaluable when making home videos where to know the date is essential (I'm thinking videos of children here!).
3. No single keystroke to split and delete an unwanted clip. In MEP I can split a clip (T), and at the next split automatically have a segment deleted (K or U). I don't see a way to do this in VMS. I have to press S to split, then press delete. No great hardship, but when yuo're used to just one keypress it just seems a bit weird.
Now, to balance things... VMS is so much smoother to use. It's responsive. MEP crashes like hell and is very intolerant of files that do not meets its stict compliance criteria. For instance, it will crash when working with MPEG2 files recorded with Hauppauge PVR cards; it can never correctly sync audio and video in MPEGs; it crashes with DV-AVI files if the audio and video are out of sync. In fact, MEP is crash city.
Anyway, I'll get used to the foibles of VMS, and I know any problems I have will be sorted here... unlike in the MEP forums where Magix is next to useless.
Thank you Sony!
Worley