Indeed. With Pinnacle Studio 7, I swear I was saving the project after every single thing I did. It was so unstable, it was like a ticking time bomb just waiting for it to crash.
Remember Vegas AUDIO??? That's how long ago. Was there anything before??? LOL!! I bought online, and here's my receipt to prove it:
From esales@sonicfoundry.com Wed Feb 28 14:30:22 2001
Reply-To: customerservice@sonicfoundry.com
Subject: Sonic Foundry Order Confirmation 160096
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:35:27 -0600
Thank you for visiting Sonic Foundry's Online Store. A copy of your order appears below. If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service at 1-800-577-6642 (weekdays 9am-5pm CST) or customerservice@sonicfoundry.com.
well if the truth be known - an ex employee gave me a cracked version of 3 and said 'try it, you'll buy it!'. and you know what, after three days i bought a copy, and haven't looked back since.....
What was your First Vegas?
Vegas Movie Studio 6 up thru Platinum 9
Where did you buy it from?
CompUSA
What were your using previously?
Ulead Video Studio (Piece of junk kept crashing and hanging)
Upgraded to Pro 9 when it came out thinking that would be a good step up, was one of the most painful upgrades of my life. Had to revert back to Platinum 9 until Vegas Pro 9c.
Upgraded Vegas 10a, which is much better and stable out of the box than Vegas Pro 9 was.
Vegas 1.0 was a demo program given away free because the product was too minimal to be considered saleable. Vegas was an audio program, and there was a hip Elvis sound bite based upon the song "All Shook Up" on the Sonic Foundry web site.
Vegas was a move by Sonic Foundry toward multi-track editing which was not available in their highly regarded Sound Forge application. Other audio programs at the time included Cool Edit (which was free) and CakeWalk. Sound Forge was limited to opening windows containing only a single stereo track and Vegas brought forth what some other programs started doing at that time which was multi-track mixing!
I believe Vegas 1.0 did contain a video window, but it was only for convenience to view any video accompanying the sound to be edited--similar to Sound Forge.
Vegas 1.0 became Vegas Audio 2.0 and Vegas Video 2.0 -- two separate programs! Both were nearly identical, but Vegas Video included the brand new TRANSITIONS tab! Transitions included: Additive Disolve, Barndoor, Clock Wipe, Cross Effect, Iris, Linear Wipe, Page Peel (yes!), Page Roll, Push, Slide, Spiral, Split, Squeeze, Swap, and Zoom. No text and no media generators. Vegas 2.0 shipped with Real Media 8 plug-in.
Vegas Audio was dropped (I believe) with Vegas Video 3.0. The next version was simply plain Vegas 4.0 (just like 1.0, but now a full-blown video program instead of the audio program originally envisioned).
I could be completely wrong, but I have Vegas Audio 2.0 installed on my machine right now, and that's the way I remember it.
After doing an audio tape transfer to CD for a friend, he gave me a demo of Vegas 1.0 to try. I vaguely remember it, but I did install it and discovered that I had little use for it at the time.
My first Vegas was version 4.0 which I bought bundled with a Canopus capture card. (I think that corporate relationship dissolved soon after that product shipped).
Name Code Qty
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Canopus 770-10116-100 DU007522 1 310.95
ACEDVio (with Vegas Video 4.0)
(Shipped)
Subtotal 310.95
Shipping 7.95
Tax 0.00
Total 318.90
Prior to buying Vegas, I was using Pinnacle 7 which was less than $100 with a capture card. My wife encouraged me to spend three times as much to buy a real editor to reduce the shouting and foul language around the house.
V4
MGI Videowave (no laughing I did a lot of work with that)
Premiere 6.5 (no complaints about it, just lacking in the audio dept)
Online from Sonic Foundry.
Video Factory 1.
Sonic Foundry's website.
You know, whatever it was was so awful i had only used it for about an hour before i switched to Video Factory and then deleted it. I can't remember what it was.