Okay I've been muddling around in the free trial of Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 for two weeks and am in love. I am a quick learner and I am already seeing the limits of the program, basically the fact that you can't mask (only that stupid chroma key feature which SUCKS), or add more than 4 video trax. That blows.
So, I looked to see if Movie Studio Platinum Pro 9.0 (which isn't Sony Vegas 9, it's still an average consumer program, not a really "pro") would be much better, but the things on the website really didn't give me the information I needed. I am looking for a version of vegas, that has features and tools such as unlimited video tracks (audio track amount is fine where it is in the program I have, one is usually all I need...) full masking capabilities (so If I want Sanzo to be running around at the bottom of the screen, while there is stuff going on in the layers underneath his, I can do that.) and generally more transitions and video effects. I'd also like to be able to add an image, cut it out and then make that image "follow" a part of the video behind it, so like in that aquasky "flying car" video, where Muraki brings his hand up and there's a real life hacksaw plastered over top of the video, and it moves with his hand, I want to be able to do that. Or in the "Bumble-bee tuna" video, when the tuna cans are superimposed over Chiyo-chans pig tails and she waggles them, and the tuna cans waggle as well, to cover the actual hair behind them...
*sigh* I just don't know the technical term for what this is, and where I sit now, I can use Chroma key and an image editing program to put a green background behind my insert image,cut it out and have it there, but I can't make said image move around the screen, it just sort of sits there, where it was cut out. Do you know what i'm talking about?
I am told that older Pro versions of SV are cheaper and still more powerful and less restricting creatively than the newer consumer grade versions like SVMSP 9.0 that I have now. So if maybe you could recommend the best version of Vegas for me?


