¡°99% of Sony people only know of Vegas as a city.

Another incredible moment of Sony's ignorance:
Sony staged a "This is HDV" event as part of a local trade show. Sony man shows off their new FX1 and then announces that currently no NLE can edit the footage, we''ll have to wait for Apple to upgrade FCP. This was months after the launch V5!

Bob. ¡±

Same as in China.

Sony China branch's advert of HDV always point out the suited HDV NLE is Edius\Final cut\Adobe\Avid but not mentioned Sony Vegas any all !!!!!!!!

Are these lite versions of the Oxford Plugins? Are they tied to dinky audio app?

Okay. I'd been waiting for a beta of Vista because I'm supposed to do some flash tutorials for an OEM. They were to be available to me this month but now, happily, I can put that off. If it's been in beta then it still wasn't in a state that I could start doing screenshots. Or so my client led me to believe.

Dependence on Vista is total conjecture on my part with absolutely nothing to back it up except for the suspicion that Vegas may be affected by or want to leverage new directX features or something like that. Given the Vista schedule, it would make more sense to release this spring and then publish patches when Vista actually comes out, which was to be fall but now will be spring 07 at the earliest.

For all I know there'll be a Vegas 7 announced at NAB this spring but if not there's a major euopean show that comes along later in the year.

Rob Mack

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¡°99% of Sony people only know of Vegas as a city.

Another incredible moment of Sony's ignorance:
Sony staged a "This is HDV" event as part of a local trade show. Sony man shows off their new FX1 and then announces that currently no NLE can edit the footage, we''ll have to wait for Apple to upgrade FCP. This was months after the launch V5!
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When Sonic Foundry announced that it was selling to Sony, there was lot of fear that Sony might screw up the whole line and kill it. Hopefully that won't be the case, but little hints like that are kind of scary.

And for a more on topic comment, I'll bet the Vegas engineers are sitting back having a good laugh at length of this thread and all of us trying to eke out bits of release information where there might not even be any. Like the size of a box picture for instance. Still, it's fun to speculate on what cool new things we might be able to do in the near future and whether the best video software ever is going to have some ground breaking new features like it did when it debuted so many years ago.

When Sonic Foundry announced that it was selling to Sony, there was lot of fear that Sony might screw up the whole line and kill it. Hopefully that won't be the case, but little hints like that are kind of scary.

Which Sony are you talking about? The Sony Media Software group located in Madison, Wisconsin? The ones that have developed Vegas from version 4 to the new version that is very shortly to be released? The Sony that added all those features to Vegas so that version 6 is way ahead of version 4 and 7 is right around the corner? The Sony that just released a massive upgrade of Acid 6? The Sony that has Vegas Movie Studio kicking butt in the consumer space?

Or are you talking about the Sony that is located in Toyko, Japan, the MEGAGLOBOCORPORATEBEHEMOTH SONY, the one that employs 150,000 people? (I have secret-inside info that less than half of those people work on Vegas.) I don't think that SONY is trying to kill Vegas either, any more than an elephant that sits down is worried about the ants.

There will definitely be a Vegas 7, the Madison PR folks have mentioned this publicly at Vegas events.

Perhaps the best PR move Madison could ever do is get the email list for all Sony employees worldwide and setup a secure server give them a copy of Vegas for a minimal fee.

Maybe if they renamed the software to "Hong Kong" that would attract more media attention? :)

AP May 16, 2010

"Sony Media Software has announced the release of Vegas 11 featuring the first updated Credit Roll generator and titler since Vegas 2 was released in 2001. The announcement started a stampede at NAB"

John

Sony is a company in disrepair---Then again, some units are still doing very well. The point is that Sony, for many years has been like a rudderless ship. If there is no captain running the show, then what do you expect. Having said that, the Sony Digital Media unit has always done good by me. You can'[t blame them for the lack of integration in the mega corporation's business plan. The new Ceo has quite a mess to clean up---.

Remember the design team and the development team tend to be different groups. So while one is working version A, the other is working on version B.

I am an Engineer and I've been in software development for many years. Maybe really big software houses (like Microsoft) do it this way, but I've never seen it done like this. The biggest team I've ever worked on probably had 20-25 engineers. I wonder how big the Vegas development team is?

What usually is done separately is generation of customer requirements. A product manager(s) looks at the market and decides what new features are needed and creates a product road map. And sometimes the planning for future versions is vague; they need feedback and learning from the most recent release before they can decide what should be fixed/changed/added for the next version.