German software company Magix Software said it is acquiring Vegas Pro, Movie Studio, Sound Forge Pro and Acid Pro from Sony Creative Software. Magix said it will take over customer support for existing owners, with new versions expected to begin arriving this fall.
Magix offers a variety of multimedia software, including the Video Pro X7 NLE, Fastcut app for Android, Samplitude Pro X2 digital audio workstation, and Youcast live streaming software.
"These products from Sony Creative Software are the perfect addition to our portfolio," said Magix CEO Klaus Schmidt in a prepared statement. "This autumn, we plan to release new versions of the video-editing programs Vegas Pro and Movie Studio, which are heavily oriented toward the customer requirements of today."
The acquisition will leave Sony's Catalyst Browse and Catalyst Production Suite for pro broadcast and production behind. Sony is expected to continue developing both of those products, which are specifically designed for production-to-post workflow for Sony cameras. (It's unclear whether the Sony Creative Software brand will survive.)
For those who've been paying close attention, the move is not a complete surprise. Back in April, Schmidt took to LinkedIn to announce plans to open a "new development studio" in Madison, WI — the longtime home of Sony Creative Software and original product developer Sonic Foundry.
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Now we will not have a path to 4k editing for prosumer use. With subscription only programs, one cannot work where there is no internet, I want to own my software license and be able to use it in very remote situations, and I do not want to be limited to hobbyist tools.Maybe we shall all have to write our own assembly code applications again.
If this means Vegas Pro is about to go the way of the subscription model like so many others in its sector, this is an unwelcome development. As others have stated, ownership of your own tools is an important objective for all artists, a form of creative freedom. In the old days, film editors could purchase their own Moviola. They weren’t forced to rent it month to month…or year to year. To offset the lamentable subscription model trend, let’s hope Blackmagic continues to develop Resolve, not only as an outstanding color correction program, but as a full fledged video editing and sound editing program everyone can actually own, with 4K and greater video resolutions dependent only on the capacity of the hardware. Great leaders are enablers of artistic ownership and freedom, not the modern equivalent of driveway security gate installers, happy to charge you a brand new toll on a regular basis for the use of your driveway.
you say it very well ! This subscription stuff is not for the creative.
Thank you for the kind words, Annie. And I hope your wishes along with the wishes of the rest of the considerable Vegas Pro user base are all carefully considered moving forward. Preferably in perpetuity.
They are not gonna sell vegas pro on a monthly basis. You are wrong.
Magix stated this on scs forum website. It will be for sale for one time lifetime license period.
Notice that I begin my comment with the word “if.” Likewise, “if” Vegas Pro remains a full ownership based product, that clearly will be a welcome continuity of experience for current users. When a change of corporate executive leadership is involved, advertised intent is not always reliable. Bottom line. We shall see. The good news is that even corporations have good reason to listen to the wishes of any product’s user base. Let’s hope that makes a difference in this case and that the subscription model is NEVER adopted for this product.
If is a very big word. There are alot of discussions about vegas pro. Alot of which people make out to be stories that are not true. Fact is , no one know what MAGIX is gonna do with vegas pro. I do know for a fact they are coming out with a vegas pro 14 this fall. MAGIX is gonna appeal to it’s current customers and they will honor current serial numbers and will grandfather current user’s. They would not have bought vegas pro to destroy it and make there fan based customers mad. Does that make sense?
Proving that Sony always viewed their own editing platform as the redheaded stepchild.
I hate Sony now more than I ever used to.
Good news vegas pro users’s. ,MAGIX is currently working on a forth coming VEGAS PRO 14 !. Look for it this fall.
in Vegas, the “ripple” on/off button is the most used one, when doing editings in the timeline. i shortchuted this with “spacebar”, so often i use it.
when i tryed Magix, i never found some equivalent, so that when moving something in the timeline, we have to… manually select all the next sequences and move them to full the gap !
i think i will never use another video sottware than Vegas.
Sonic Foundry, Sony,… now Magix–where it stops , nobody knows. Nice audio editing software tho.