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Version 8.0b
- Release Date: Feb 6, 2008
- Please refer to the release notes for a full list of changes
Version 8.0a
- Release Date: Dec 1, 2007
- Added the ability to burn Blu-ray video to DVD recordable discs (added 8 Mbps MPEG-2 and AVC rendering templates).
- Added support for the Matrox uncompressed codecs with optional alpha channel (for SD, use 720x480 or 720x576; for HD, use 1280x720 or 1920x1080).
- Added support for reading QuickTime files using the BitJazz SheerVideo codec.
- Added a General tab to the Event Properties and Media Properties dialogs. You can use this tab to view information about a media file.
- Added default volume names to burned Blu-ray Discs.
- Improvements and bug fixes for reading HDV and AVCHD formats, including support for additional consumer AVCHD camcorder files.
- Fixed a problem that could cause video and audio glitches when using MXF files that do not contain Length metadata (such as clips captured from E-VTR decks).
- Fixed a bug in the AAF import to support certain Automatic Duck AAF files.
- Bug fixes for no-recompress long-GOP rendering (smart rendering).
- Fixed an issue with rendered output that could occur when multicamera editing mode is enabled.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when closing Vegas Pro if certain third-party MJPEG codecs are installed.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting an ACID project file in the Vegas Pro Explorer window.
- Fixed a crash related to reverse playback in projects with multiple busses.
- Fixed a bug that prevented media rotation from invalidating prerendered video.
- Fixed an issue with renaming files from the Vegas Pro Explorer when the Hide extension for known file types check box was selected in the Windows Vista Folder Options dialog.
- Fixed a problem that could cause problems when previewing FLAC files from the Media Manager.
- Fixed an issue reading certain H.264 HD QuickTime files.
- Fixed a bug that prevented subclips from being created from media that required an audio proxy.
- Fixed a crash that could occur in the ProType titler after changing the style of automated text.
- Fixed crash that could occur in the ProType titler when navigating to child element.
- Fixed a problem that could cause green or pink areas and/or banding in certain Sony AVC renders.
- Fixed an issue with post-fader metering when using 5.1 surround master bus plug-ins.
- Corrected the master bus insert FX chain to default to post-fader gain for new projects.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Chorus plug-in from following tempo settings.
- Corrected field order of MPEG-2 Blu-ray rendering templates.
- Fix an issue conforming XDCAM HD projects from non-FAM drive letters.
- Fixed the name of the Cut away section setting in the Method drop-down list in the Cooke Cutter plug-in.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when accessing optical drive functions if your Windows user account is a member of a large number of groups.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a new project while an Audio Plug-In property page was open.
- Fixed an issue playing back subclips or reversed events with FLAC-format audio.
- Fixed an issue with the locations of rendered markers in MPEG-2 Transport Stream files.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Event Media Markers from MPEG-2 Transport Stream files to all be displayed at frame 0.
- Scripting changes have been posted to the Vegas scripting forum.
Version 8.0
- Release Date: Sep 13, 2007
- Video:
- 32-bit, floating-point video processing with linear-light gamma support (use the Pixel format and Compositing gamma drop-down lists on the Video tab of the Project Properties dialog).
- Multicamera editing.
- Sony ProType titler (available in the Media Generators tab) .
- Digital signage support: create rotated projects for viewing on a vertical or inverted display.
- Support for 10-bit video encoding when previewing or capturing from AJA SDI video cards.
- Audio:
- Mixing Console window for a traditional hardware-style mixer view.
- Audio routing enhancements:
- You can now route busses to assignable effects via the Mixing Console window.
- You can now route busses to multiple sends via the Mixing Console window.
- If you want to apply track panning to bus or assignable FX sends, right click the bus or FX fader in the track header and choose Link to Main Track Pan from the shortcut menu.
- The Track Prefader Sends Listen to Mute check box in Preferences > Audio enables pre-volume sends from tracks to busses and assignable effects to respond to the track mute state.
- Tempo-based audio effects. Vegas now sends tempo information (as specified by the Measures and Beats settings on the Ruler tab of the Project Properties dialog) to tempo-aware audio plug-ins.
- Workflow:
- Support for Windows Vista™.
- Interactive tutorials.
- Single-monitor full-screen video preview.
- Media Manager database upgrade.
- If you want to edit in the Trimmer window without updating the Video Preview window, right-click the media file in the Trimmer Window and clear the Show Video in Preview Window command.
- If Quantize to Frames is on while dragging an audio event and the selection group contains video, the movement is quantized so the first video event is quantized (instead of the audio event). If there is no video in the selection group, the audio event will become quantized (as in previous versions of Vegas).
- Formats:
- Burn timeline to Blu-ray disc.
- Smart rendering support for HDV 1080i and XDCAM.
- Conforming XDCAM projects using FAM now supports import of only the portions of the XDCAM files used in your project timeline.
- Sony AVC rendering enhancements.
- AC-3 Studio encoder.
- Support for opening MJPEG-encoded AVI files.
- Support for opening and rendering FLAC files.
- Export to PSP™ (PlayStation® Portable) enhancements.
- Scripting:
- Enhanced scripting: you can now create compiled scripts that are available under the Extensions submenu in the View, Edit, or Tools menus. These extensions are loaded when Vegas starts and remain loaded as long as the program is running. Extensions can respond to changes in project data, control playback, and display a nonmodal interface.
Version 7.0e
- Release Date: May 5, 2007
- Added support for editing files recorded with Sony AVCHD camcorders.
- Added snapping to speaker locations for Film style panning.
- Added support for multichannel audio in WMA/WMV files. When you add a 5.1 Windows Media file to a stereo project, the stereo downmix stream is loaded by default; when adding to a 5.1 surround project, audio will be added to separate tracks for the center, front, rear, and LFE channels.
- Export to PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) now supports writing to the \VIDEO folder and includes a PSP full-screen template (supported in PSP® firmware 3.30 or higher).
- Improved encoding quality in the MainConcept AVC/AAC renderer when using a constant bit rate.
- Fixed a visual issue with rotated 2D images being scaled down very small.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using Ctrl+NumPad keys with the Surround Panner if no track had focus.
- Fixed an issue with normalizing events that had a very small, silent looped portion.
- The My Documents folder is now the default capture location for SDI and HDV captures.
- Fixed an issue with rendered XDCAM IMX files to ensure they play back from an XDCAM deck.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong frame to be displayed on an external monitor when playing back outside of the active loop region.
- Fixed a potential buffer overrun with some ASIO drivers.
- Fixed an issue opening some Ogg Vorbis audio files.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while trying to recapture offline XDCAM media files during project load.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while replacing media with media with fewer audio channels.
- Fixed a DV video capture issue that could cause captured NTSC clips to be misidentified as PAL.
Fixed a DV video capture issue that could prevent starting timecode from being detected.
- Fixed an issue identifying the Plextor-755 drive for CD audio extraction.
Version 7.0d
- Release Date: Jan 22, 2007
- Fixed a track-compositing issue introduced in Vegas 7.0c.
- Fixed an issue with changing the audio channel in the Trimmer for media that is not in the project.
- Fixed a conflict with the Raylight MXF reader.
- Fixed a freeze that could occur when using MPEG or AVC media in the Trimmer while Preview on External Monitor was enabled.
- Fixed JKL freeze.
- Fixed a crash when multichannel media that is also in the project is added to the Trimmer and played.
- Fixed a crash while opening a project that has media that was also in the Trimmer.
- Fixed a crash when viewing properties for a surround DVD Camcorder audio event.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when recapturing offline XDCAM media or changing XDCAM media outside of Vegas.
Version 7.0c
- Release Date: Dec 12, 2006
- Added support for reading Sony 1080-24p HDV, such as that captured with the Sony HVR-V1U camera.
- Added File > Import > Hard Disk Recording Unit to allow you to import video from a Sony HVR-DR60 hard disk recording unit.
- Added HDV 720-24p and HDV 1080-24p project templates.
- Added Video for Windows format rendering templates for 720-24p and 1080-24p intermediates.
- Added Windows Media Video format rendering templates for 720-24p and 1080-24p video.
- Added MPEG-2 format rendering templates for 1080-60i and 1080-24p MPEG-2 video for authoring Blu-ray™ discs using Blu-print™ software.
- Added IMX-compatible project templates.
- Added a MainConcept AVC/AAC template for rendering 640x480 AVC video for Apple iPod®.
- Added a Length of GOPs setting to the Advanced Video tab of the Custom Template dialog for the MainConcept MPEG-2 plug-in. You can use this control to adjust the length of groups of pictures (GOPs) when the Use closed GOPs check box is selected.
- Made improvements to reading and writing MXF-format files.
- Made improvements to SDI external monitoring via AJA and DeckLink hardware.
- Made improvements to Rec.709 color space handling for HD MXF and SDI formats.
- Made improvements to VST audio plug-in scanning.
- Fixed an issue that was causing degraded performance with the CineForm CFHD codec.
- Fixed a bug that could cause plug-ins to disappear after being re-enabled.
- Fixed an issue with naming markers in rendered MXF files.
- Fixed an issue that prevented HDV capture from stopping after the end of the last clip.
- Fixed a bug that could cause video event thumbnails to be displayed at nonquantized frame positions for AVI files that use a nonstandard frame rate.
- Fixed a problem that could cause muted tracks to become unmuted when loading a project when automation was turned off.
- Fixed a rounding issue that affected crossfade, composite level, and composite-level envelopes.
- Fixed an issue with normalizing audio via scripting.
- Fixed an issue that could cause media markers to be displayed incorrectly at velocity envelope points.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect frames to be used when reversing a subclip.
- Fixed an issue with marker locations in AVI files rendered without audio.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Edit > Streams menu to disappear if the Edit menu had been opened with an empty event selected.
- Fixed an issue that could cause audio peaks to be rebuilt unnecessarily when opening audio/video files in multiple Sony Media Software applications.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Vegas to appear mirrored on certain operating systems.
Version 7.0b
- Release Date: Oct 11, 2006
- The Insert Generated Music command now ignores the Import Audio at Project Tempo setting so Cinescore compositions are imported at actual length.
- The Lock Envelopes to Events feature no longer includes envelope points after the last event. Previously, moving an event to another track could cause other envelope points to be removed.
- For the Sony MXF format, a Progressive field order setting has been added for DVCAM and IMX rendering (via the Custom Template dialog for the MXF format). Also added 25p/30p detection when reading these files.
- The MXF reader now supports source files larger than 4 GB.
- Two-channel Broadcast Wave Format files are now imported to a single stereo track. In Vegas 7.0 and 7.0a, these files were imported to two tracks.
- Added support for the Zoom slider on some Microsoft keyboards.
- Event start times are now properly quantized if you drag media to the timeline when Options > Quantize to Frames is selected.
- Fixed a problem that could cause gapping when adding certain audio plug-ins to a plug-in chain.
- Fixed a problem that could occur when using the numeric keypad to move events across tracks.
- Fixed a problem generating audio peaks for some HDV source files.
- Implemented various HDV improvements, including stream-length matching, improved speed on non-SSE2 computers, and better handling of some HDV variants.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when using Copy and trim media with project with a project that contained uncompressed AVI files without audio.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Use color management feature (Preferences > Preview Device) from working correctly when using a Windows Secondary Display.
- Fixed a problem that prevented multichannel/multistream files from creating multiple tracks when dropping files on the ruler.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the Remove from project and delete files(s) command from working when right-clicking a file in the Project Media window.
- Fixed a bug that prevented certain Targa (TGA) files from opening.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when accessing CD or DVD drives on computers with Blu-ray drives.
- Fixed a problem that could cause a freeze under certain conditions when building peak files.
- Fixed a problem that could cause a frame stutter when reading some Windows Media Video files.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the rendered file from being added to a new track when using Render to New Track with HDV files.
- Fixed a problem that could cause the application to stall when reading large MPEG-2 or OMA files.
- Fixed a problem that caused Export Video to XDCAM Disc to fail if clips had been deleted from the disc.
- Fixed a problem that caused user-supplied disc names to be ignored when importing XDCAM clips.
- Fixed problems with loading and saving projects containing XDCAM information while the XDCAM Explorer was not enabled (Preferences > General > Enable XDCAM Explorer).
- Fixed a problem that prevented markers from being saved when rendering MXF files.
- Fixed a problem that prevented aspect ratio metadata from being saved when rendering MXF files.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the left/right surround and LFE channels from being rendered when rendering 5.1 surround projects to AC-3 or ATRAC formats.
- Fixed a problem with automating the Track EQ and Chorus plug-ins.
- Fixed a problem with printing 24p video to a DV device.
Version 7.0a
- Release Date: Sep 13, 2006
- Numerous XDCAM fixes and performance enhancements have been made.
- Four-channel .dlx files from the Sony DSR-DR1000 deck now open correctly.
- If you drag to a snap point that does not occur on a frame boundary when Quantize to Frames and Enable Snapping are enabled, the snap indicator is displayed as a dashed line to indicate that the snap point will be quantized to the nearest frame boundary.
- A new preference has been added to Preferences > General. Select the AAF Export - Use clip-based audio envelope check box if you want to combine track and event gain envelopes and save them as clip-based gain envelopes in the AAF file. When the check box is cleared, track envelopes are saved as track envelopes, and event envelopes are saved as clip envelopes.
When you import an AAF file, the track- and clip-based gain envelopes are combined and imported as track envelopes.
- Multichannel audio files now display an indicator when the events are not synchronized.
- If you want to open a subclip's original media file in the Trimmer, right-click an event on the timeline (or a subclip in the Project Media window) and choose Open Parent Media in Trimmer from the shortcut menu.
- Added support for scene detection when capturing HDV video. Use the Enable HDV scene detection check box on the General tab of the Capture Preferences dialog to toggle scene detection.
- Added the ability to read timecode from most HDV files (some 720p formats do not contain useful timecode).
- Fixed a bug that could cause HDV capture to hang under some circumstances.
- Improved performance when saving projects to network folders.
- Paste Event Attributes behavior has been improved for grouped events.
- The logic for post-edit ripple (including auto ripple) has been improved when deleting events. The new logic produces better crossfades when deleting an event from a sequence of crossfaded events or deleting events from multiple tracks.
The ripple amount is now defined by the track with the shortest length of selected events when measured from the start of the first selected event to the start of the next nonselected event.
- Left/Right Arrow keyboard shortcuts have been revised to allow you to use the arrow keys to position the cursor when the track list has focus and to prevent accidental adjustment of track volume or opacity.
- Press Left/Right arrow to move the cursor left or right one pixel when the timeline or track list has focus (or hold Shift to extend a selection).
- Press Alt+Left/Right Arrow to move the cursor one frame when the timeline or track list has focus (or hold Shift to extend a selection).
- Press Ctrl+Left/Right Arrow to change audio track volume or video track opacity when the track list has focus.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right Arrow to change audio track panning or video track fade to color when the track list has focus.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening some projects created with earlier versions of Vegas.
- Fixed a problem that could cause external video preview to play out of sync with the video signal when previewing via AJA SDI cards.
- Fixed a problem with the media offset when splitting a video event that contains a velocity envelope.
- Fixed a problem with relinking of still-image sequences when media is moved.
- Fixed a problem that could cause a crash when playing back with certain audio plug-ins (including Antares Filter and Sony Pitch Shift).
- TranzPort control surface meters are now reset when you stop playback.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the right, right surround, and LFE channels from being rendered when using multiple mono templates with 5.1 surround projects.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Beatmapped files from being imported at the project tempo when the Import at Project Tempo check box (Preferences > Audio) was selected.
- Fixed a bug that could cause distortion when using auto input monitoring under some conditions.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent volume envelopes on the master bus from working correctly.
Version 6.0
- Release Date: Jan 1, 2006
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