{"id":575,"date":"2009-10-26T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2009-10-26T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:18:12","slug":"sony-vegas-and-the-50-million-dollar-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/sony-vegas-and-the-50-million-dollar-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Vegas and The $50 Million Dollar Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has taken my training at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webvideouniversity.com\/index_wvu.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Web Video University<\/strong><\/a>, follows this blog or my video podcast, knows that I recommend <strong>Sony Vegas<\/strong> when it comes to video editing for Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>It also seems that whenever a do a blog post about Sony Vegas, it stirs up debate over what the &#8220;best&#8221; video editing software is.\u00a0 Of course &#8220;best&#8221; is always a matter of personal opinion, but Sony Vegas still gets scoffed at by many pro&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Well score one for Sony Vegas.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the video editing software used to create a $50 million dollar Hollywood movie.\u00a0 That movie is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paranormalactivity-movie.com\/trailer.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Paranormal Activity<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which I previously did a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/12\/how-a-15000-movie-made-7-million-in-2-days\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of October 24, 2009, Paranormal Activity has an estimated domestic gross of $50 million dollars.\u00a0 And you can expect that number to grow substantially as the movie gets world-wide distribution and eventually goes to DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Sony Vegas isn&#8217;t the reason for the movies success.\u00a0\u00a0 All video editing software does the same thing&#8230;it takes video off a camera, allows you to chop it up and enhance it, then produce that video in different media formats.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is proof that you can use $500 software to achieve the same thing Hollywood studios do.\u00a0 You just have to know how to use it.\u00a0 And people will never know the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has taken my training at Web Video University, follows this blog or my video podcast, knows that I recommend Sony Vegas when it comes to video editing for Windows users. It also seems that whenever a do a blog post about Sony Vegas, it stirs up debate over what the &#8220;best&#8221; video editing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}