Also obliquely related to that operating system advance is Sony’s improvement of the 32-bit floating point processing mode it started with version 8, now playing nicely with garden-variety 8-bit graphics with its new color level and contrast compatibility. For instance, I had a veritable cornfield of memory in my machine-12GB of RAM-giving Vegas a lot more headroom for whatever I wanted to do. That’s fortunate, because now you can throw lots more memory at Vegas’s hungry maw. It now runs on the 64-bit version of Vista, basking in all the increased bandwidth available to that double-wide OS.

Vegas also improves its compatibility with modern operating systems with this latest version. 64-bitness, Improved 32-bit Floating Point Drag to the right, and frames from the end are incrementally reduced. Neato! Another new trick: drag a clip as you press Aalt/Shift, and if you drag the clip to the left, it chops off frames at the beginning of the clip. But now, hold that key combo and you can drag the edge back or forward, splitting and trimming frames as you go. Hover your cursor over the clip, and you’ve split a shot just like you did by pressing the 'S' key in previous Vegas versions. (The first is an abbreviated way to split clips, using the mouse, as you hit Control/Shift/alt.

Now Vegas Pro 9 sports a couple of nifty keyboard/mouse combos, and I started using them constantly as soon as I found out about them. Digging beneath the surface, I found some golden nuggets added to the Vegas interface, which I’ve grown to love after first encountering them in Vegas Video 1.0 way back in 1999.

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