I've been making the switch from Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 to Sony Vegas Pro 10. Up until buying an AVCHD camcorder two years ago I had been using Premiere exclusively. However, the lack of AVCHD in CS3 and the initial buggy AVCHD support in CS4 prompted me to look for alternatives.
I tried out the trial version of Vegas Pro and found that it was rock solid editing AVCHD, had great export options, and seemed more modern than CS3 or CS4 because of its 64bit architecture support. More recently Vegas has improved their GPU acceleration and the UI has become more polished.
Anyway, since I don't have all night to write this. I wanted to focus on the cool image stabilization feature that isn't included in CS4.
I had some old very shaky handheld footage I shot at a friends wedding using a Hi-8 camcorder.
I searched the internet to see if there was anything I could do to fix it.
Turns out that Vegas Pro has an amazing video stabilization feature. Basically, you just select a clip and tell the software what kind of shakiness you want to remove (horizontal, vertical, etc.).
I've included the shot I stabilized. It literally took just a few seconds to correct.
Even if you don't have old shaky video footage I still highly recommend you try out Sony Vegas Pro Trial.
