[Carlos Silva] "a) So, considering I need just to create interesting animation with infographs (not necessarily as sophisticated as this one I mentioned above, but as close as possible) I am thinking to change from Vegas Studio to Vegas Pro bearing in mind the use of masks and plus features to deal better with animation/infographics. And it seems that Vegas Pro 11 + image software (as Inkscape or even Gimp) would be sufficient. What do you think?"
As I said, you can get pretty far using Vegas Pro and GIMP or InkScape. All you need is time and patience. ;-)
~jr
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