There was one thing that it did that no other product did and I still use it for that reason though its has started to give me trouble on win10. Early on before it was sold to Magix Sony gave me a free copy of Vegas. I never used it for video or audio editing but the encoders were terrific and it was the only NLE in town that you could specify the limit. For example we had a hour long documentary that had to be under 5GB and still be of excellent quality for an Italian Film Festival. Only in Vegas you could specify the mp4 target and it would adapt the encoding algorithm to exactly hit those targets. Obviously as an AV editor it was dated compared to FCP and MC though it was once very popular among music enthusiasts.
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