Bit of a strange one to review, right? I just thought that there are so many softwares similar to this on the market that it is the smaller details that make or break a product like this. I was given this programme last Christmas, with a new laptop because I became very interested in media and video editing and had been struggling on an old windows programme to edit holiday videos for ages.
To begin with, you need to know exactly what you are doing to use this programme. I would not recommend it to any beginners because the features have specific names and settings that can be hard to find and control. Luckily I had been doing some video editing at school with a teacher so knew vaguely what I was doing when I started. This, however, did not stop me from searching numerous tutorial videos on youtube to look for basic functions such as how to 'cut' a piece of video clip and how to add transparency to an overlay.
Once you learnt the basic layout and functions, this programme is fantastic! To an extent you can move the windows and buttons around so that you can have everything where you want it and all features are easy to find. Simple controls make video editing a quick and thought-free process but to make a slightly more technical video the buttons are there.
I still haven't discovered everything you can do on Sony Vegas as it's capabilities are so vast and endless however the features that I have discovered are clever and extremely adaptable to whatever one may want.
A critiscism is that some of the functions tend to be hard to find, and take a lot of clicks into different folders in order to see. Additionally some of the icons are confusing and misleading, to this day it still takes numerous wrong clicks in order to do the simple task of importing new media.
All in all, I think this is an extremely clever and useful program which creates beautiful and creative films of many different styles, my repertoire ventures from our home video to my mini-series of 'Louisa in Reverse' clips! (see here). However, this is not a program for beginners, I would recommend a program such as 'Windows Movie Maker' for these people to start with!
