v3 for 6 months...

well I'm quite keen to upgrade to 10, having not upgraded from 8 to 9 as I didn't see much upgrade there, if the image stabilization is good and the dslr support works for my 7D then I'm sold.

However I wanted to test this out first, so downloaded the demo, and I'm not off to a good start. I can't even get it installed. It comes up with "error 1603" during an installation failure.

Any ideas?

I'm running windows xp sp3

Lee, here's the official Microsoft word on that error.
You receive an "error 1603: A fatal error occurred during installation" error message when you try to install a Windows Installer package
I hope this helps.

thanks I'll check that out.

Well the Vegas Pro 10 trial worked on my windows 7 64bit machine. And my 7D videos work on it. That just about sells me alone.

If I can my xp machine to work with the trial then I'll be signing up. Which bonus to get with it though is a hard decision. I really wish they were giving away the royalty free music pack they give away with the studio version seeing they unfortunately don't support cinescore anymore and I'm running low on music seeing can't buy theme packs anymore