I got Vegas 1.0 from a friend! I still remember the icons they used. :) I think this was in 1998 or 1999, can't recall exactly!

I bought a version of the Vegas Movie Studio after tearing my hair out trying to successfully render and burn a 1 hour home movie of a family Disney trip with the epic piece of garbage known as Pinnacle Studio. After much online research on which commercial level NLE was most stable, I was sold on Vegas. I quickly upgraded to Vegas 6 Pro so I could do a little more ... been a loyal user ever since.

I'm certainly no pro like many on here, but it's been a great platform to learn about video editing, and there really hasn't been a single effect I can think of that I haven't been able to do with a little research and trial and error.

What was your First Vegas? Where did you buy it from?
Vegas Movie Studio 4, purchased from Best Buy or CompUSA based on numerous recommendations on CamcorderInfo.com about "easy to use" and "rock solid stability".

Upgraded to VMS 6 when it came out just a few months later.

When Vegas+DVD 7 was released, I bought the $99 Vegas 6 (pro) deal (CD only) from B&H and immediately upgraded it to Vegas+DVD 7 for about $150 more through Sony Media Software website.

Currently have Vegas Pro 8, and I'm planning to grab version 10 pretty soon, before the early bird deal ends.

What were your using previously?
I bought a miniDV camcorder in 2005 and a $20 firewire card soon after, which came with a demo version of ULead. I was absolutely awestruck that you could upload video to a (modest) home computer and edit, and put WORDS right on top of the video, etc. But I only toyed with that software and at that point bought VMS as recommended by the CCI forums.

I started with V3, then V4, then V5, then jumped to V8, and now 10....you'd think I'd be able to post a few answers on here once in a while instead of just questions

From what I can tell it was Vegas 3 which my friend Tim Duncan recommended.

Looks like I got it direct from SONY.

I was using the Matrox Digisuite LE with in:sync's Speed Razor software, which I hated very much. I did love the Digisuite's 2 stream, real-time editing though.

I was dreading having to render everything ...but interestingly enough I got much more creative with my projects since everything was going to have to render anyway. All the VideoFX filters became my friend ;-)

And before the Matrox I was using the VideoFlyer from NewTek on my Amiga 4000...seems like a lifetime ago...mp

V2 Audio from Sonic Foundry.

I was talking with a guy here in the Chicago area recording a choral group with V1 and he mentioned there was a new version coming out from a very really sharp group in Madison. I was using N-Track Studio which was horribly unstable so V2A was a dream.

The installer for V2A was 24MB.

Been upgrading ever since.

Larry

@ Kevin R
If I recall correctly...

The company I was working for at the time paid for my copy.

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.

That's correct. 320 x 240 as I recall.
I was using it to do audio sweetening in a 3/4" suite (for you youngsters here, that's a videotape format - grin!!) as it only had two audio tracks and I often found myself needing four or more.
I'd record a copy of the finished show into Vegas and then use that as my reference for timing purposes.
I was using a sound card that had a SMPTE-Midi converter so everything was frame accurate.
It also had a serial port so that, when I was done, I hooked the record deck to the computer and let it do the layback to tape as an audio insert.

Mike

I just checked my registrations and they go all the way back to Vegas Video 2.0 and Vegas Audio LE 2.0 (which for some reason I seem to have two registrations for).

I remember that I had bought an original Macbook and Final Cut Pro version 2 and was trying to do my first editing job on that setup. I was getting nowhere. I bought Vegas 2, put it on my Toshiba Windows notebook, and immediately could edit like I'd been doing it for years. I've been on Vegas in it's various forms ever since.

I remember being a little worried about what Sony might do with the program once they took over, but they have been spectacular overall.

Ran away, screaming, from Pinnacle Studio 8 before all my hair fell out, and bought a copy of Screenblast. Used it contemporaneously with Studio 9, which I actually had very good luck with, despite the ill fortunes that befell most of its victims. Got a look at a hacked copy of Vegas 4, and then bought Vegas 5 from the Academic Superstore. Did the paid upgrades for 6 through 8, skipped 9 because I'm retired and couldn't afford it. Jumped on the $139 offer for 10, so I'm back up-to-date.

Video Factory 1.0
$20

It was an impulse purchase in an unremembered store and long enough ago that I don't remember the year.

Mike/rs170a --

MAN I'D LOVE TO GET A COPY OF VEGAS 1.0!! It's the only version missing from my "collection"!

So, you recall it was not free? I remember downloading a free demo, but maybe it was the same as the limited-time demos that Sony still does. BTW--when I installed Vegas Audio 2.0 yesterday the demo period was only 7 days.

So, anyone have a copy of Vegas 1.0?

-Kevin

Video Factory 2.0 and then upgraded to
Vegas Video LE 3.0 from Sonic Foundry and never looked back.
Then on to Vegas Video 3.0 and all versions since, including Vegas Pro 10.

Before VF 2.0, EditDV from Digital Origin which became Cinestream from Discreet. Then Cinestream R.I.P....
Tom

Vegas 4
Can't remember where I bought it
Was using Premiere 4, had switched to it from Corel Lumiere.

Every now and then I have to switch to Premiere because a client does the majority of his work in Premiere and asks me in to cut portions when he's away at another shoot (just go in and edit on his system). PP CS5 is like a waking nightmare. Every time I come back to Vegas, I get the oogly mooglies (warm fuzzies for the uninitiated)

Vegas 3
Sonic Foundry
Speed Razor

Vegas 4 was the first version for us. Before that was a linear system with 2 Sony Hi-8 decks, the Fast Video Machine and a Sanyo SVHS or Betacam SP Master.. When I read the submissions from the whiners on this forum, I often think of the poor guy who sold us the Video Machine and supported it. We made his life hell for the first few months.
Ralph

Vegas Video 3.0
Sonic Foundry web site
Video Factory 2.0 (prior to that Pinnacle Studio DC10 Plus 1.5 w/Hollywood FX)

...those were the days. :)

~jr

Vegas 6
On-line
some cyberlink/nero products - never looking back again !

Rudi

What was your First Vegas?
Vegas 6.

Where did you buy it from?
Sony online.

What were your using previously?

Now when so many of you have revealed it, I dare to do it as well: Pinnacle Studio 7, and a little later Premiere 6. Believe me - going from the worlds buggiest video editing software (Pinnacle 7) to Vegas 6 was a out-of-this-world experience. Vegas 6 was rock solid, it NEVER crashed on me. Vegas 7 was almost as good. It was really unbelievable since I thought that it was normal that "complex" software died on you. Vegas 6 taught that it was not true. Been a Vegas user since, even if I have been sometimes looking on the other side of the fence, for the grass (valley) colour - you know. Ha ha, nice pun... eh...

Christian

vegas 2.0 , ebay,,, 150.00 I think,, it was pirated, ebay didn't care.got stuck
avid ,,mac based

Tom, I'm similar to you...

Started with Vegas Video 2 purchased from Best Buy (when the nearest Best Buy to me was about 3 hours away) and upgraded to every Pro version since then.

Before Vegas, EditDV from Digital Origin which became Cinestream from Discreet. Then Cinestream R.I.P.... I could see Cinestream was dying so I started seriously looking for something else - looked a Premiere and it did not make sense. Bought Vegas and haven't looked back.

Ed,
We must be related. LOL...

I chose EditDV because I couldn't come to grips with Adobe Premiere's gazillion twisty options do things simple.

Like JR, I even tried a Pinnacle (D200) card (it came with free Premiere) and it still didn't gel. Tossed Premiere (haven't touched it since) and kept the card as a generic OHCI compliant FW card.

Once I "got" the Vegas interface and the ease with which you could achieve great results, I haven't looked back. Best decision, ever.

Tom

Vegas Movie Studio
Tiger Direct
Nothing-after using Soundforge, Acid, which have similar GUIs, I figured Vegas would cut down on the learning curve since the same functions are in similar Sony products.