MAGIX Software is a leader in user-friendly multimedia solutions. They will now focus their attention on the Catalyst Production Suite that includes Catalyst Prepare and Catalyst Edit. Sony Creative Software (SCS) will remain an important part of Sony Electronics. I just hope that it pulls them closer to the Vegas way of doing things rather than the Premiere way.Earlier this year, Sony Creative Software sold many of their software products to MAGIX Software GmbH. MAGIX has a similar product in Video Pro X and so it would make sense to combine the two.
Other video editors that follow the Adobe Premiere style I find terribly impenetrable. It works very much like a DAW and so is instantly familiar if you’ve ever used something like Cubase, StudioOne or Pro Tools. It’s so fast, so easy to throw together multiple video sources and audio and cut it all together. Vegas Pro is something I use almost every day as a maker of YouTube videos. It could just do with some updating and support for some real-time technologies. The alternatives tend to be either Steinberg’s Wavelab or the freeware Audacity so there’s definitely room for what Sound Forge is awesome at. Sound Forge is a bit more unique in terms of being a dedicated audio editor. These days an app on your phone can do that. It pushed the whole idea of “Acidised” loops with built-in tempo and slicing information for instant automatic time-stretching. When it first arrived there was nothing like it for building tracks with loops. What I hope is that MAGIX see it as an opportunity to invest some badly needed development into these once great bits of software. So on the one hand MAGIX are completely capable of running a professional product line, on the other Samplitude has never penetrated very far into the DAW market. However, also hidden away in their portfolio is Samplitude Pro and Sequoia which are serious, professional DAW and post production tools that MAGIX acquired from German company SEK’D in 1999. Well, my initial reaction is to think “MAGIX Music Maker” or “MAGIX Video Easy” which are consumer level bits of cool, cheap software for fiddling about. So maybe the level of shouting has something to do with this transfer of ownership. ACID sadly has not seen an update in 5 years.
Vegas is at times notoriously unstable but good enough to let you work around the issues because the workflow is so superior to any other non-linear video editor I’ve ever used. Sound Forge, although now at version 11, is largely unchanged from when I first started using it on Windows 95.
If you are a dedicated user of Sony Creative Software like me, then you’ll probably be aware of the frustration pouring out of the support forums over the lack of development in recent years.
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