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AtomicGreymon wrote on 2/6/2008, 3:46 PM
They probably held off on using 5.0 because they do have significant upgrades to the HD authoring capabilities planned; and it would make more sense to call that 5.0 as opposed to this release, which wasn't as big a change. I don't see why it would be free, though. The upgrade fees for Sony software seem to be pretty reasonable, anyway. DVDA 5 probably won't be released until V9, so it would all be one bundle again, anyway.
rmack350 wrote on 2/6/2008, 3:50 PM
Hmmm. Why indeed!

I'm sure there's plenty of conjecture and no facts.

Since DVDA only ships with Vegas I've been assuming that version 5 would ship with VP9 (and studio, I suppose). The 4.5 seemed like a hint that the next full version would have something more to it, presumably HD authoring.

I suppose they could also start selling it as a standalone product.

I know knothing.

Rob Mack
rmack350 wrote on 2/6/2008, 3:52 PM
The 4.5 version did make me wonder if a VP9 wasn't too far off...

Rob Mack
farss wrote on 2/6/2008, 4:17 PM
What does bug me is 4.5 fixed a bug that's been bugging me for years but 4.5 will not run under Win2K. So to get the bug fixed I've got to upgrade to XP. Not that there's anything wrong with XP, just that I've held off shifting my authoring PC to XP until I upgraded the hardware.

Bob.
JJKizak wrote on 2/6/2008, 4:33 PM
farss:
You don't understand---"Bill" doesn't want you to use Win2K anymore, period.
JJK
Chienworks wrote on 2/6/2008, 6:44 PM
Speaking as someone who's main job over the past 23 years has been making sure that people's computers work properly for them ... i've run Win2K and WinXP to the ground and i cannot for the life of me imagine why anyone would want to use 2K. It was a user, maintenance, and administrative nightmare. It added tons of problems for users and didn't demonstrate one single advantage over 98SE or NT. The general response i've gotten back from all of my users who migrated from 2K to XP was, "hey!!! i can actually get work done again now." XP got my users back up to the functionality they had with 98SE without hampering their every move like 2K did. I fact, before XP came out i probably migrated the majority of the 2K users back to 98SE so that could keep on doing their jobs.
Chienworks wrote on 2/6/2008, 6:46 PM
Why CDA 5.2?

Actually, the very first Sonic Foundry product i used was Sound Forge XP 4.5. Kinda brings me back full circle.