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I've been using Sony Vegas for years, since version 9. I published more than a 100 movies generated with that software. Sony Vegas has no doubt the best user interface in the market. So since my last version was 11 I bought 13 without even checking the trial version. What a mistake. Sony Movie 13 improves few things indeed. But what it does with user interface is simply shameful. For some reason it was designed for... touch screens. How could anyone think this is a good idea is beyond me. Who on earth would want to edit movies with his fingers? Editing movies, even simple ones, requires precision. And nothing does the job better and faster than a simple mouse. So, to fulfill the task, in Sony Movie Studio 13 all elements of UI are unnecessarily huge. Really, they are gigantic. As if it was designed for visually challenged old-timers, although excessive use of colors makes you rather think of a kinder garden. Therefore moving around a short clip in the project is way more difficult than it was, because little icons sitting on the clips are no longer little. They get in your way, so you have to zoom all the time to make everything quite big. I mean, who designed that? What were they thinking? It's a mystery. What used to be simple click-and-drag (for example quick fade-in / fade-out) requires several mouse clicks now. There used to be one universal tool you could do anything with - now you have four of them. You have to switch between them during editing, which takes time and is annoying. There are several little annoying things like that, so altogether if the editing a movie in Sony Vegas 11 took 20 minutes, in Sony Vegas 13 it takes 30. Well, maybe I could live with that. But why why should I if I can do everything faster with older version? And to top it all there is a real deal-breaker: a gameplay project I recently edited kept crashing in the middle of rendering, no matter how I rendered it. After several wasted hours I switched back to Vegas 11 - and it worked fine! So to me version 13 is not an upgrade. It is downgrade. Sony Vegas software used to be the best video editor on the market for both home and professional usage. Until version 12. In 13 it all has been suddenly changed from a tool into a toy. Unless you want to edit your films with your fingers on your touch screen (I don't know anybody who would) stay away from version 13. Instead buy excellent Vegas 11 or 12 or look around for the competition.