After thoroughly using it for a month (my trial ended while I was on vacation), I can state that I'm happy with Sony's offering.

I still wish it had a storyboard!!! Reshuffling the order of clips is so much easier when you're able to simply drag and drop the entire clip as if it were a card in a deck. I guess Sony didn't do enough research into the "Vegas" part of their product to catch the analogy.

By the way - Sony is offering their Home Studio Suite, which includes the basic versions of Vegas Movie Studio, ACID Music Studio, Sound Forge Audio Studio, Photo Go, and a "free" (well, included) 2 GB thumb drive, for $150. I'm thinking that since the basic versions of each of these is around $30 to $50, it's no steal, and that I'd be better off with the Vegas' Platinum Pro Pack, as it includes Sound Forge Audio Studio 9, anyway, along with a bunch of other tools.

Any thoughts? Hold your peace after Jan 15, though, as the offer expires on the 16th.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.