I have it on good authority that the Associated Press has chosen to work with SONY’s Vegas NLE over all other video editing offerings for their field teams.

Up until recently, I was a vocal advocate for Adobe’s Premiere Pro. But I just found the work flow methodology cumbersome. I have had SONY’s Vegas for some time, but never really worked with it per se’ until recently. Now I’ve said good bye to Adobe’s archaic way of post production as it applies to working as a Solo VJ (the same could be said for Apple FCS and Avid as well).

I find it interesting that the Triple A suites (Apple’s FCS2, Adobe’s CS3 and Avid’s offerings) are generating all the advertising hype for users to switch to them. So why is it then that the Associated Press has CHOSEN to use SONY’s Vegas for their field teams??? They could have gone with any application available and yet went with the underdog.

I obtained this information from someone who is well connected and has been one of SONY’s biggest advocates for their software applications. In addition, they are developing training materials specifically targeted at field editing for video journalists. From what I can surmise, Avid Newscutter seems to be the target SONY has set its eyes on.

I recently made the complete switch to SONY’s suite of apps, including Vegas and Sound Forge for my bread and butter editing after having used Adobe’s Premiere Pro and Audition and have found that these applications are far above anything else available for editing video (and audio). Resources are efficiently utilized, editing is intuitive, - About the only thing missing is the ability to export out directly to Flash Video, but I can deal with that via the various third party apps available.

The more I use Vegas for video editing, the more I want to tell others about it. Believe all you want from the spin doctoring ad wizards out there - Vegas works better than anything else for the Solo Video Journalist Paradigm.