Sony Creative Software, a leading global provider of professional editing and authoring solutions, today announced the latest upgrade to its Vegas™ editing technology.

Vegas Pro 13 brings new collaboration tools and streamlined workflows to professional content producers faced with a wide variety of multimedia production tasks.

“Vegas Pro 13 takes giant steps toward making the total multimedia creation experience faster and easier than ever. One example is the Vegas Pro Connect iPad app, which provides a remote collaborative review process for clients and team members,” said John Freeborg, vice president of Sony Creative Software. “We are excited to announce Vegas Pro 13 at NAB and provide live presentations and in-booth demos of the new key features. In addition to technological advancements that span the production process, from ingesting to editing to archiving, we’ve created a set of phenomenal values by bundling Vegas Pro 13 with other workflow-integrated professional applications, both from Sony Creative Software and key partners.”

Vegas Pro 13 Edit software (MSRP $399.95), Vegas Pro 13 software (MSRP $599.95), and Vegas Pro 13 Suite software (MSRP $799.95) will be available for digital download on April 17, 2014 with physical products available May 5, 2014. For more information, or to purchase, please visit:

http://blog.sony.com/press/sony-announces-latest-version-of-vegas-pro-software/

http://apps.avid.com/mediacomposer7/#?intcmp=AV-HP-S1

Our solution was to avoid rewriting the Windows-specific code at all (it was, after all, tried, tested and optimized). Instead, we decided to move it to a new operating-system dependent layer which we engineered to have an OS independent interface.

Once this was complete, we were then able to begin work on a Linux implementation of that same layer. In essence, the Lightworks code is now split in two - the OS-independent code (eg. editing, play-engine, etc) which uses the OS-dependent code (eg. file access, threading, etc).

The OS independent code accounts for about 97% of the total codebase. The bulk of the work in porting to Linux was actually in re-engineering the existing code, not in writing the Linux-specific layer.

Linux of course doesn't have [Windows'] Direct3D, so we had to reimplement all the Linux GPU specific code using OpenGL.

This development has been long-awaited. Once again, risk-averse developers are showing us how OSes, once the mainstay of IT revenue, are losing relevance.

What's next - Lightworks for Android? -only a few lines of code away.

Let us know ones you know and like. How much is actual ownership cost, how stable are they?

Variants suggested:

Sony vegas Pro 12

Prices from $340 for Edit version, $260 for student version

• http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro

Avid Media Composer 7

Prices at about $795, $295 for student version

• http://www.avid.com/US/products/media-composer
• http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/6676/avid-media-composer-7-#Item_2

Magix Video Pro X5

Prices from $43 for older version up to $399 for latest, $149 in all top products pack for students/teachers

• http://www.magix.com/us/video-pro-x/
• X2 full fledged version is available for $43 at http://www.amazon.com/MAGIX-639191700675-Video-Pro-X2/dp/B003EYU5BI/
• X3 with native AVCHD editing, multicam and 3D for $99 at http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004R8ZM6I/ref=sr_1_2_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1368059833&sr=8-2&condition=new
• X5+Samplitude+Designer Pro, $149 for students and teachers - http://education.magix.com/us/products/magix-academic-suite-pro-x/

Grassvalley Edius Pro 6.5

Prices from $500, $160 for student version

http://www.grassvalley.com/products/edius_pro_6.5

• Adobe Encore CS6
• Adobe Media Encoder CS6
• Adobe Story Plus
• After Effects CS6
• Audition CS6
• Photoshop CS6
• Prelude CS6
• Premiere Pro CS6

• Speedgrade CS6

• An optimized Mercury Playback Engine that is faster than before in software-only mode, and also sports a broader range of choices in graphics cards.

• Adobe Mercury Transmit gives Adobe I/O hardware partners, such as AJA, Black Magic Design, Bluefish444, Matrox, and MOTU direct access to the Mercury Playback Engine. Using external monitors, you’ll get full-screen playback while maintaining all the real-time performance benefits of the Mercury Playback Engine.
• Warp Stabilizer and Rolling Shutter Repair, which were previously only in Adobe After Effects.
• Unlimited cameras in Multicam.
• New and enhanced editing tools such as adjustment layers very reminiscent of After Effects, trimming directly in the Program Monitor, and a redesigned Audio Mixer. You can now double click to apply effects to selected clips.
• Three-Way Color Corrector effect, that uses GPU acceleration
• Adobe Media Encoder is now fully 64 bit software with a much expanded preset list and more efficient batch encoding that makes multiscreen delivery a breeze.

After Effects part

• Native support for Adobe SpeedGrade .Look files, cineSpace .csp files, and overrange IRIDAS .cube files.
• Not only is Mocha still there, but you can launch it directly from within After Effects.
• Global RAM cache. This is a vastly improved frame caching system that allows you to try different options and Undo without a penalty in productivity, as well as render and cache a comp’s work area in the background.
• Persistent Disk Cache. Previews done in a previous session are saved and immediately available the next time you open a project.
• New graphics pipeline. With more efficient use of OpenGL, the work environment in After Effects is more highly responsive and smoother. You’ll get faster manipulation of layers with graphical overlays such as masks, motion tracker points, and motion paths. Depending on the hardware, functions may be speeded by anywhere from 1.5 to 16 times!
• Intelligent 3D Camera Tracker effect.
• Ray-traced 3D rending engine giving you the capability to quickly design fully ray-traced geometric text and shape layers in 3D space. Pair this engine with, say an nVidia Quadro 2000, and you’ll see over 10 times the performance over CPU-only rendering by a stock Intel i7 3960X processor!
• Variable mask feather lets you set any number of points along a closed maks and define the width of the feather on a per-point basis
• Pro Import, previously available as a separate product from Automatic Duck, is now included with After Effects CS6.
• Effects that were previously 8bpc now support 16bpc or 32 bit float including all of the HD plug-ins of the included CycoreFX HD Suite.

Links:

http://success.adobe.com/en/na/programs/events/1203_16108_nab.html
http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/guides/PL_CS6_WN_Reveal.pdf
http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/guides/SG_CS6_Intro_Reveal.pdf
http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/
http://blogs.adobe.com/insidesound/

Trials:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=production_premium&loc=en_us&sdid=JUJDJ&virid=adbe2012-JUJDJ
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Buy:

http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/software._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_creativesuitecollection.html

As of today, Shotcut is in a very early development stage not doing much beyond playing files.

I must say that I really wonder why Dan decided to start yet another editor based on MLT, given that at least three other NLE's are already based on his MLT framework (kdenlive, OpenShot and Flowblade). But he did not say what he was missing from those existing editors... ;-)

I downloaded the source code, compiled and tried the software briefly. It is not yet at a point where it would make sense to test it for actual usability, as of today, it is at a very early stage of development, and seeking for attention from potential code contributors.

http://pro.magix.com/uploads/MAGIX_PRO/video_pro_x/pdfs/magix_video_pro_x5_new_features_en.pdf

It has ProRes, DNxHD support, has color correction, multicam, and CUDA is not required (you can work on AMD cards using OpenCL) etc

Also has PluralEye like algorithm build in making synch of different cameras or separate audio.

Information:

http://pro.magix.com/en/video-pro-x/overview.275.html

Available:

Price: $399

http://www.amazon.com/MAGIX-MID012608-Video-Pro-Download/dp/B007VGI7LU/

Tutorial videos available on vimeo: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3.

Flowblade is based on the MLT framework (as also are kdenlive, OpenShot and Shotcut).

I only briefly tried it - may appeal to people that like the "Avid" user interface. I'll stay with kdenlive for now.

http://www.avid.com/us/products/Scriptsync