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"This latest update has undoubtedly improved what was already a very impressive product and the fact that Sound Forge is cheaper than most of its competitors means it's a seriously good buy." – FutureMusic

"I've tried several competing NLE programs, but Vegas Pro always comes out on top. It has an extremely intuitive design and is focused on user control, which gives me the flexibility that I need in my editing work."
– Chris Brickler for TV Technology

"Tracking to tape, Whitcomb pushed the iron particles hard for natural compression, attack and release sculpting – the end result being that these loops sound freakin' fantastic."
– Keyboard Magazine in praise of
What It Is! '70s Analog Funk


This Month's Special

Mick Fleetwood: Total Drumming
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- Mick Fleetwood has received a Grammy award nomination (full article below), and to celebrate we're offering 20% off his Total Drumming Loops & Samples collection.
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What's New

Continental Drift: World Music Loops & Samples
Continental Drift
World Music Loops & Samples
An exclusive Premium Collection title featuring African, Asian, Arabic, Celtic, East Indian, Gypsy, and Native American sounds.

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Product Updates

ACID Pro 7.0d
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See all available updates


Music and Video Contests

Jersey Advocates
Khemique
Tiffany Nikeita
See past contest winners


Events

NAB 2010
April 12-15, 2010
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas, Nevada


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10 Vegas Pro techniques for power-editing.

Join us Thursday, January 28 for a live web event as Gary Rebholz, Sony Creative Software training guru, explores 10 powerful techniques to help you edit more quickly and proficiently in Vegas Pro software. Ranging from simple to more advanced, each of these methods holds a key to super charging your editing process.

This Vegas Pro webinar is open to everyone interested in learning how to get more out of Vegas Pro software. If you're using the software already, you'll come away with some great techniques for speeding up your work. If you've never used Vegas Pro, you'll get a good look at some of the techniques that make the software a favorite for editors from beginners to pros. Learn more and register here


Sony software at NAMM 2010

Four frantic days of presentations, meeting friends old and new, and soaking in all the latest musical technology – that's NAMM 2010, the semi-annual meeting of the National Association of Music Merchants, one of the largest music product shows in the world.

Our booth saw a steady stream of current and new users, checking out the latest features and learning about our applications. Jason Gleed demonstrated how he used ACID Pro in scoring TV commercials, Hanna Montana videos, and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel." Rudy Sarzo drew crowds of fans and Vegas Pro users as he demonstrated his 3D production techniques in Vegas Pro software. Attendees left with increased knowledge and enthusiasm for our products. Who knows what they'll create next?

We're still catching up from the trip, but hope to have pictures and videos from NAMM 2010 up on our Facebook site soon. See you there!


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Mick Fleetwood nominated for Grammy

Congratulations, Mick! The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band has received a Grammy award nomination for 'Blue Again' in the category of Best Traditional Blues Album. Blues? Yes! While Fleetwood Mac is best known as one of the greatest pop groups of all time, Mick Fleetwood is a masterful blues drummer in his own right who stays connected to his roots via side projects, making records and playing clubs with long-time friends and associates.

Our Mick Fleetwood: Total Drumming loop library is a timeline of the Fleetwood style, dotted with key points that reference the Fleetwood Mac sound as it evolved through the decades: the authentic blues of the legendary Peter Green years, the classic FM radio rock years, Mick's forays into world music forms, and finally, the ultimate rhythmic perfection of what today is commonly considered to be the classic, quintessential Fleetwood Mac sound. The best grooves of every phase were deeply reviewed and savored before we turned our attention to the actual recording process. This well-considered approach went a long way in assuring that we hit all the major milestones, including, of course–classic blues.

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Are You Ready to Rock?

Legendary metal bassist Dave Ellefson relies on Sony Creative Software applications to produce his instructional Rock Shop series of videos. Check them out at David's YouTube Channel.


Live at Moog

Classic and still cutting-edge synth manufacturer Moog uses Sony Creative Software applications exclusively in producing its "Live at Moog" series of in-house performances by artists such as Yo La Tengo and White Rabbits. See them all and download MP3s here.


Working with a variety of video file types in Vegas Pro
Vegas Pro software by Gary Rebholz

Over the years, Vegas Pro software has been a pioneer and true innovator while other NLE manufacturers play catch-up. Take, for example, their "coming soon" support for 64-bit operating systems. While their customers long to work in 64-bit projects "someday," Vegas Pro users have been taking advantage of the power of a true 64-bit environment since we first introduced our support with the release of Vegas Pro 8.1 in 2008!

Similarly, Vegas Pro has always featured robust native file format support. From the beginning around 10 years ago, Vegas Pro users have enjoyed the ability to throw just about anything at their projects with the confidence that the application would simply accept it and enable them to get on with their work. We've always put a premium on the ability for Vegas Pro software to work with native codecs and file formats as they come off of the recording media instead of forcing users to transcode or re-wrap their footage to a single edit-friendly format. With every format that Vegas Pro software supports and has ever supported, you can mix and match all the frame sizes and frame rates on a single timeline, in most cases without transcoding or re-wrapping your files. To the user, that means simplicity. Just throw it on the Vegas Pro timeline and start editing.

In this article I present an overview of many of the major file formats as they relate to Vegas Pro software. This will give you a good idea of the flexibility you have to work in Vegas Pro projects regardless of the cameras you shoot with or the type of files you use in your work. This flexibility gives you many more options when it comes to deciding what video cameras to buy. It also enables those of you who work with files provided by other sources to accept more jobs. I'm going to focus on video file types, but don't forget the huge array of audio file types, like WAV, AIFF, MP3, FLAC, and more that the application handles with ease. Click here to continue

Gary Rebholz is the training manager for Sony Creative Software. Gary produces the popular Seminar Series training packages for Vegas Pro, ACID Pro, and Sound Forge™ Pro software. He is also co-author of the book Digital Video & Audio Production. Gary has conducted countless hands-on classes in the Sony Creative Software training center, as well as at tradeshows such as the National Association of Broadcasters show.



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