I have my doubts that there will be a 10 at N.A.B.
they went a long time on 9 (year and a half or something like that) from the release of 8. If they keep that up it'll probably be IBC this year, or something like that, but who knows, time will tell.
afaic, they'd better sort out 9 before hoisting 10 on me!
i love vegas, but there's absolutely no way i'd pay for even an upgrade while there's so many apparent problems with 9c. (render / red-green frames / memory / preview / etc)
When you can look at the timeline and not see any red, when Vegas doesn't suddenly disappear for no reason, when none of the extended functions have completely bizarre behavior, when most of the codecs work, when you are simply editing instead of being stopped in your tracks and having to troubleshoot . . . that's when you know that a new version is about due. Lately editing in Vegas has been pretty smooth and trouble free. I would guess that means we are due for a new version. ;-)
Vegas 9 was released April 2009 (NAB)
Vegas 8 was released September 2007. (IBC)
Vegas 7 was released September 2006. (IBC)
Vegas 6 was released April 2005. (NAB)
Vegas 5 was released April 2004. (NAB)
(Sony purchased it in mid 2003)
Vegas 4 was released April 2003 but had a public beta starting around January.
Vegas 3 was somewhere around December 2001/January 2002
I heard they were going to miss 10 and go straight to 11
If they had rebuilt the application, and if you could tell they'd done it, then skipping 10 to go to 11 would probably make good marketing sense. However, new versions of Vegas are never that earth shaking.
I'd place my bets on IBC, with a release of Studio earlier. I usually assume Vegas will take a year and a half for a new Rev but Ed's timeline says that it could easily be a year. Honestly, I don't think they've finished with 9.0 yet and it'd be kind if they let people with 9.0 use it for 6 months in a more stable form.
Is it time to start some of those epic "What I want in Vegas 10" threads?
I'd like to see them add7.1 mixing, and the ability to play nice with Pro Tools. (Export/Import).
An option to lock it into an 'AVID mode' to creat/export EDLs that can be used in said product.
Think about how cool that would be for Directors/Editors in the field. No need to purchase 2400.00 worth of software just to make cuts And Vegas can read QT based DNXHD files..