Vegas Movie Studio -> Version History

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Index:

• Version 11 Build 247 (Sep 24, 2011)
• Version 11 (Jun 9, 2011)
• Version 10.0 (Jul 2, 2010)
• Version 9.0b (Oct 15, 2008)
• Version 9.0a (Aug 20, 2008)
• Version 9.0 (Aug 2, 2008)
• Version 8.0c (Feb 6, 2008)
• Version 8.0b (Oct 13, 2007)
• Version 8.0a (Jul 4, 2007)
• Version 7.0a (Sep 25, 2006)
• Version 7.0 (Sep 25, 2006)
• Version 6.0b (May 20, 2006)

• Release Date: Sep 24, 2011
• The Burn Blu-ray Disc feature has been updated for compliance with the Blu-ray Disc specification. You can render 3D projects to a Blu-ray 3D Disc image file (.iso) from the timeline (Tools > Burn Disc > Blu-ray Disc). This feature is intended for commercial BD-ROM preparation testing.

• Release Date: Jun 9, 2011
• Video
  • Stereoscopic 3D editing, upload to YouTube 3D, and 3D Blu-ray Disc burning.
  • New Titles & Text plug-in.
  • New video plug-in SDK with updated controls for keyframe animation.
  • Added support for 50p and 60p projects, capture, and print to tape:
  • Project templates: HD 720-50p (1280x720, 50 fps), HD 720-60p (1280x720, 59.94 fps)
• Audio
  • Audio event effects.
• Workflow
  • A fully updated Render As dialog that streamlines the rendering process and makes it easy to manage your favorite render templates.
  • Improved usability of the Trimmer and Video Preview windows with the addition of transport controls.
  • Press Alt+Down Arrow during playback to move the edit cursor to the playback cursor location for editing or recording.
  • Device Explorer improvements:
  • You can now right-click a clip in the Device Explorer window and choose Open in Trimmer or Import and Add to Project to choose how you want to import clips.
  • You can now drag clips from the Device Explorer to the Project Media or Trimmer window.
  • You can now change the location for creating prerendered files from the Print to Tape Wizard.
  • New Microsoft Image Mastering API (IMAPI) disc drivers for DVD and Blu-ray Disc burning.
  • Improved usability of the Make Movie Wizard.
• Formats
  • Improved performance when reading QuickTime AVC and QuickTime AVC/H.264 video (such as video shot with digital SLR cameras).
  • Added support for reading MVC video.
  • Added support for rendering MVC video with the Sony AVC/MVC plug-in.
  • Added support for reading MPO (multiple picture object) 3D still images and sweep panorama images.
  • Improved support for GPU-accelerated AVC rendering using the Sony AVC/MVC plug-in.
    • NVIDIA GPUs
      GPU-accelerated AVC rendering requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and NVIDIA driver 185.xx or later with a GeForce GT 2xx Series or newer GPU.
      
      For more information about CUDA-enabled GPUs, please see http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html.
      
    • ATI GPUs
      OpenCL GPU-accelerated rendering requires an OpenCL-enabled ATI GPU and AMD Radeon Catalyst driver 11.2 or later with an ATI Radeon HD 57xx or newer GPU (please see Known Issues regarding an incompatibility with driver version 11.3 and 11.4). We recommend using . If using an ATI FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.773 or later is required.
      
      For more information about OpenCL-enabled GPUs, please see http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/Pages/desktop-graphics.aspx.
      
      GPU-accelerated rendering performance will vary depending on your specific hardware configuration. If you have an older CPU and a newer GPU, rendering using the GPU may improve render times.
  • Full 24p support.
  • Support for rendering .mov files with multichannel audio.

• Release Date: Jul 2, 2010
• Video
  • Up to 10 video tracks.
  • Image stabilization for video clips.
  • White Balance video plug-in.
  • Secondary Color Corrector plug-in.
  • Subclips in the Trimmer window.
  • Vegas Movie Studio can now automatically adjust the video preview size and quality to optimize frame rate during preview. Right-click the Video Preview window and select Adjust Size and Quality for Optimal Playback if you want to emphasize frame rate during preview. When the command is not selected, video quality is emphasized, and the frame rate will be reduced if necessary.
  • Select the Adjust source media to better match project or render settings check box on the Video tab of the Project Properties dialog to enable Vegas Movie Studio to make minor changes to your source media properties — including cropping/padding frame size or adjusting interlacing — to allow media files to work better with your project.
• Audio
  • Up to 10 audio tracks.
  • Enhanced audio event timestretch and pitch shifting with élastique Pro.
  • Audio-only edits (such as event moves, trims, and ASR times) are no longer quantized to frame boundaries by default when Quantize to Frames is enabled. If you want to quantize audio-only edits, clear the Do not quantize to frames for audio-only edits check box on the Preferences > Editing tab.
  • Audio-waveform drawing during recording has been improved:
    • Recorded waveforms are now updated at a faster rate.
    • 16-bit peak files are used for increased resolution.
    • The entire waveform is now visible during recording.
    • Peaks no longer need to be built when recording is completed.
• Workflow
  • Streamlined new project creation.
  • The Vegas Movie Studio interface uses a new, darker color palette.
  • Window layouts.
  • Device Explorer window for importing video from AVCHD cameras and CompactFlash-based memory recording units such as the HVR-MRC1.
  • Slideshow Creator.
  • Integrated DVD burning from the timeline (Tools > Burn Disc > DVD).
  • In the Save As dialog, the Copy media with project check box now copies only media files that are saved outside of the project folder; media files in folders below the project folder are no longer copied.
  • In the Video Media Generators dialog, you can now click the Match Event Length button to set the length of the generated media to match the length of the event.
  • Hold Alt+Shift while dragging inside an event to slip-trim the right edge of an event.
  • Hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift while clicking an event to split it. You can then drag from that point to trim the event in the direction you drag (eraser mode).
  • You can now slip all of an event's takes when slipping an event (choose Slip All Takes from the Options menu).
  • You can hold Ctrl (or hold the right mouse button) for fine control while adjusting the sustain portion of event envelopes.
  • Time selection envelope editing (adjusts multiple envelope points within a time selection for quick audio ducking).
  • You can now choose to automatically crop still images to match your project's output aspect ratio.
  • In the Render As dialog, templates that match your project settings (frame size, pixel aspect ratio, and frame rate) are displayed with an = symbol in the Template drop-down list.
  • Holding the Shift key while dragging now enables snapping if Enable Snapping is turned off.
  • When you drag a group of selected events, the first and last event now snap to other snap points on the timeline.
  • Pressing ` (grave accent) no longer restores track height for tracks that were previously minimized.
• Formats
  • Custom rendering templates for all video formats.
  • Updated project and rendering templates for Internet distribution.
  • Added 23.979 fps (IVTC) settings for the Project Properties dialog, Media Properties dialog, and timeline ruler.
  • Improved support for AVC/AAC (.mp4) video.
  • Support for GPU-accelerated AVC rendering using the Sony AVC plug-in.

• Release Date: Oct 15, 2008
• Improved HDV/AVCHD reading.
• Improved support for MPJEG-encoded AVI files.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Vegas Movie Studio from opening the audio streams of MPEG-2 files that use stereo AC-3 encoding.
• Fixed a problem that could prevent the application from opening.
• Fixed a problem with M2TS files that could cause a crash after playback.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the LFE channel from being read from some 5.1-channel AVCHD files.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when rendering to some AVCHD formats.
• Fixed a problem reading some FLAC files.

• Release Date: Aug 20, 2008
• Added support for rendering 1920x1080 AVCHD video (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only).
• Improved AVCHD playback performance.
• Resolved an issue that could cause AVCHD import to overwrite existing imported clips.
• Fixed the ruler format for PAL projects.
• Improved stability when working with projects containing multiple MPEG video clips.
• Added Japanese, French, German, and Spanish language support.

• Release Date: Aug 2, 2008
• Updated New Project and Make Movie Wizards.
• Improved native HDV .m2t playback performance and improved memory handling for HDV longform projects. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only)
• Sony HDV true progressive 24p support. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only)
• Import from Memory Recording Unit. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only)
• Import from AVCHD camcorder. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only)
• Support for editing files recorded with Sony AVCHD camcorders. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only)
• Support for Sony Cinescore™ Studio music-generation plug-in.
• Single-monitor full-screen video preview.
• Burn timeline to Blu-ray Disc™. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only)
• Upload to YouTube.
• Added support for reading 1920x1080 AVCHD video. (Vegas Movie Studio Platinum only)
• Smart rendering support for MPEG-2 video.
• Support for opening MJPEG-encoded AVI files (such as video recorded with a digital still camera).
• Support for opening and rendering FLAC files.
• Support for LPEC files imported from Digital Voice Editor software.
• High-quality H.264 AVC/AAC import and export (including HD support). Includes templates for Sony WALKMAN® and Apple iPod®

• Release Date: Feb 6, 2008
• Added support for Panasonic AVCHD files.
• Fixed a bug that caused the video stream on some .mov files to not play.

• Release Date: Oct 13, 2007
• Added support for MJPEG-encoded AVI files.
• Added Spanish language support.
• Fixed a bug that could cause 1080p HDV clips to default to 1.000 pixel aspect ratio.
• Fixed a bug that could cause image corruption in the Red-Eye Reduction window with Windows Vista™.

• Release Date: Jul 4, 2007
• Enhanced video preview.
• Full-screen preview to a secondary Windows display (including DVI monitors).
• Insert I-frames at marker positions when rendering MPEG-2 (works in conjunction with I-frame viewer in DVD Architect Studio 4.5).
• Support for editing files recorded with Sony AVCHD camcorders (only in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8.0).
• Improved native HDV .m2t playback performance and improved memory handling for HDV longform projects (only in Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition 8.0).
• Multithreaded audio engine maximizes real-time audio playback and rendering performance - more tracks and effects with lower latency.
• Support for opening and rendering ATRAC3™, ATRAC3plus™, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless™ files.
• Gracenote® MusicID™ technology for extracted audio from CDs.
• Improved snapping — color-coded visual snap indicator and the ability to snap to event edges on other tracks.
• Display of media marker names in events.
• Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline.

• Release Date: Sep 25, 2006
• A bug has been fixed that caused 5.1 surround projects to save audio in only the front channels when using the Make Movie Wizard to burn your project to DVD.

• Release Date: Sep 25, 2006
• Export video to PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)
• You can now export Sony AVC/AAC (also called H.264 or MPEG-4 AVC).
• MainConcept AVC/AAC codec. You can use this plug-in to import H.264 video in your projects and to render H.264 video to Apple iPod® video format).
• 5.1 surround support.
• Support has been added for opening and rendering ATRAC3™, ATRAC3plus™, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless™ files.
• Stereo and 5.1-channel AC-3 rendering.
• Cut/copy/delete operations can be applied to grouped events.

• Release Date: May 20, 2006