Announcement from Magix about Vegas14
 

Received via email. Note NATIVE prores support! That's kind of a big deal...

At the end of September.
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VEGAS Pro is entering into a brand new era!

Since the acquisition of VEGAS Pro and other tools from Sony Creative Software, our entire development team in Madison, Wisconsin is working tirelessly to take video editing with VEGAS Pro to the next level.

This means that at the end of September 2016, you can look forward to the most advanced version of VEGAS Pro yet!

Here's a sneak peek of some of the highlights and new features in the upcoming version:

» HEVC/H.265 support
» 4K Smart Upscaling
» Native ProRes support
» and much more!

Stay tuned for more updates and get ready for the all new VEGAS Pro 14.

Sincerely,

Klaus Schmidt
CEO MAGIX Software GmbH

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IT'S ALIVE!!!

Thank GOD! I'm excited to see how MAGIX invests in Vegas Pro in the years to come.

Count me in!

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lazarus rises ;-)

am looking forward to seeing what develops....

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Ooh. Native ProRes hooks are much needed. So are native DNxHD hooks.

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+1 dnxhd would be most useful indeed

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That's wonderful news - and just as I was getting used to DaVinci Resolve 12.5!

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We knew Sony was working on supporting mov and ProRes playback, as Apple is not willing to fix the security issues in their PC quicktime plugin.

The big question for me would be: Will ProRes now be an encoding option (currently very very rare in the PC world, due to restrictions by Apple) or does this simply mean we will have ProRes file playback "support", but without needing quicktime?

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Fantastic news. And not a gimmick in sight 😊

Are these press releases being emailed out to the customer base? I haven't received anything from Magix since the acquisition.

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nor have i?

have written over on scs and magix boards to find out what's required to get them. anyone here know?

innocent by-stander

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A few days after the purchase announcement I downloaded two Magix applications (trials). When I installed them it required registering. I think it was during the registration process that I elected to receive Magix announcements about software deals. I think this is why I received the recent Vegas Pro 14 announcement from the Magix CEO.

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I've not registered with Magix, but did receive the email announcement.

Go figure!

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I'm gettting update emails on my old "Sony database" accounts.... Magix sent an announcement email that they purchased the customer database and unless you opted out, you should get any new announcements.

If you're not getting them, you either hadn't opted in with Sony, or they are going to a spam/junk folder, or.... maybe they lost your contact info!

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I have not registered with Magix and have not had any emails but can still log into my Sony account and see all my software registered etc. Looking forward to see what comes in September.

Ron Evans

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+1 as ron above

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Didn't opt out, not going to junk folder. Looks like they lost me! I can log on to my Sony account.

Anyone outside the US getting these messages?

Perhaps it's Germany's way of punishing us in the UK for last night's embarrassment!

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I did get te messages. I think you could contact SCS to find out, what went wrong.

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Thanks Jo, I will.

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Looks like maybe the "international" customer list didn't get transferred, or had to be treated differently than the "US" lists? Perhaps different regulations on email? I know the one notice I got seemed to be worded to make the transfer "all legal", along with an opt out for anyone not wanting to be "on the list".

I can't imagine that Magix would have purchased the Sony assets and left behind the international customer list/user base... but...

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Dave,
Have a look at my origin. It is outside the US. So if the cought me on the list, they should also have cought people from GB, even after last nights Brexit.

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Just got my first email from Magix yesterday. I couldn't even think why. Then I remembered that years ago I registered a copy of Acid Pro 3.0. It must be a really deep database!

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I use G-Mail and my inbox is segregated into primary, social, and promotions tabs. At first I thought I wasn't getting the announcements about Vegas, but then I realized I seldom checked the promotions tab and sure enough that is where they were.

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I got the message here in the UK.

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"Perhaps it's Germany's way of punishing us in the UK for last night's embarrassment!"

Now that was funny :))

I don't know where they got my info from but yes I have received an email from them.

Now were you a Brexiteer or a Remaninian?? That may answer any questions.

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

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Really close to me in Ottawa and I have ACID, Sound Forge, Vegas, CD Architect, DVD Architect, Spectral Layers etc all registered and still no email .

Ron Evans

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I didn't get this message, nor any other...

I hope they continue the great upgrade purchase pricing for registered users...

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It will not be before september, that versie 14 will be available, so, you have some time to find out, why you have been overlooked.

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https://www.moviestudiozen.com/forum...-14-offer#4352

Quote from the thread post above:
"This is the message I got back from Magix:
"At the moment there has been a few small batches of emails that have gone out and many more are going out in stages explaining the new direction things are heading. Unfortunately I have no way to check if you where in that batch of emails." "

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If you know the Bible, you'd know what it says about magic.

I think I'll be looking for a new editing program.

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Thanks to a kind poster on the Sony forum, here's the link to the official offer.

Exclusive welcome offer

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Of course it is 'Magix' not 'magic'...but even so, the word can be legitimately used without the slightest reference to the occult...

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I'm in Australia & have registered several versions of Vegas, Sound Forge & Acid but have not received any notifications.

Ron C.

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+1 ron.

i find magix's approach to registered users a bit haphazard. one would have thought it was simply a matter of getting scs's database (which they've got) and doing a mail out?

not happy with progress so far....

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I've always loved MAGIX software, glad they are taking over Sony Vegas.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't change the familiarity of the program ! I don't want to learn everything again ... keep it the way it is now, just ADD more features to it.

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I've just received a mail out from Magix for my Vegas 9. so it may just be a case of them processing the data and matching the mail shot.

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I just got a mail too detailing the offer for Vegas 13 and then Vegas 14 in September.

Ron Evans

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ok, just received my offer.....

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I guess that as I am already on 13 I won't receive any offer email just yet.

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Don't fret. Many others have had this email whilst still having VP13. Most likely working through the Continents and the alphabet. North America and Canada got them earlier in the month. Got mine two days ago.

However, why am I and "others" getting the offer anyway? Makes no business sense. Or simply that the database isn't filtering correctly.

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Well, I got the offer on the 20th. of June and I haven't used Vegas in years, I got as far as Pro 9.

Make of that what you will.

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Unless there are many hundreds of thousands of Vegas users we are unaware of, I find it hard to believe that in this day and age it isn't possible to email everyone simultaneously, with tailored content according to, for example, products owned or products on earlier versions eligible for upgrades. I suspect they've just either inherited a crap database or they've messed it up.