Vegas™ Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack takes HD video and audio production even further with tools for professional-level sound design and more video effects and transitions. Edit video in nearly any format including high-definition HDV and AVCHD. Use the included Sound Forge™ Audio Studio software for precise audio editing and Cinescore™ Studio software to generate royalty-free soundtracks in just minutes. To share, upload movies to YouTube™, burn to Blu-ray Disc™, or author DVD using beautifully designed themes or create custom menus and graphics. Exclusive Sony Show Me How interactive tutorials help you get started fast.
Features:
Standard or high-definition:
Edit video in nearly any format including HDV and Sony AVCHD video. You can even work simultaneously with standard-definition and high-definition video and the same project.
Create stunning HD movies:
Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum software has everything needed to produce movies in spectacular high-definition. Editing HD is simple; just drop your clips on the timeline and go to work. Its high-performance engine is beyond fast—see your changes happen in real time. Export movies in a variety of HD formats for easy sharing.
New! Burn Blu-ray Disc™ from timeline:
Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum software provides functionality to burn a no-menu Blu-ray Disc™ directly from the timeline. These discs are burned in BDMV format to BD-R, BD-RE, and DVD recordable media. Projects can be encoded as either MPEG-2 or AVC utilizing Dolby or PCM audio in stereo or 5.1 modes. Blu-ray Discs provide an alternative to streaming and file-based distribution for high-definition content. Beyond support for 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray Discs, Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Edition supports burning BDMV on 4.7GB and 8.5GB standard DVD media, providing a low-cost opportunity for users to distribute high-definition content with traditional DVD burners and media.
New! Upload movies to YouTube™:
Users can easily upload movies directly to YouTube™ for online sharing. The Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum publishing feature uses a high-quality encoding process for optimal YouTube quality.
New! Cinescore Studio plug-in for soundtrack creation:
Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum includes the Cinescore Studio plug-in for quickly and easily creating customized royalty-free soundtracks. Cinescore Studio software uses royalty-free themes that can be modified to fit a movie’s length and mood with virtually infinite variations.
New! “New Project” and “Make Movie” wizards:
Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum software provides an updated wizard for creating new projects. They provide a simple approach to ensuring new projects are created correctly from the start. The new wizards help users ensure the project is delivered in the correct, optimized format for its final destination. The new Make Movie wizard eliminates the guesswork for delivery and provides optimized files in a few simple clicks for Web, DVD, email, or for publishing movies to YouTube.
New! Enhanced Sony AVCHD support:
New functionality includes importing files directly from Sony AVCHD camcorders and most other brands. In addition, Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack supports editing all types of AVCHD camcorder files, including files from the latest generation of 1920 x1080 AVCHD camcorders. Support for 1920 x 1080 ensures that the footage from the latest 1920 cameras can be edited natively on the timeline.
New! Improved native HDV .m2t playback:
Improved memory and playback performance allows users to edit HDV footage natively without the time-consuming process of converting to an intermediate file type such as Cineform. Smart rendering provides faster encoding for cuts-only projects or projects with minimal changes while providing less generation loss because video frames pass through the engine unaltered.
Surround sound mixing and encoding:
Import multichannel (5.1) source files from your camcorder including Sony® DVD and AVCHD Handycam® models. Use the surround sound mixing and panning tools to create surround DVD soundtracks. Encode AC-3 stereo or 5.1 mixes without leaving the software using the included Dolby® Digital AC-3 encoding software.
Enhance video and audio:
Advanced color correction tools enhance washed-out footage, make specific colors stand out, and balance differences in video due to camera setup or lighting.
Add professional effects:
Enhance your video with hundreds of professional 2D and 3D video effects, titles, and filters—including over 100 effects and transitions from NewBlue®, maker of professional video effects plug-ins. Customize your soundtrack with over 20 real-time DirectX® audio effects.
Create Hollywood-style DVDs:
It’s easy to produce your own professional-quality DVDs with multiple motion menus, buttons, and music beds. Includes 44 themes to get you started. Add your own behind-the-scenes features, director’s cuts, outtakes, bloopers, and more.
New! Support for FLAC and LPEC files:
The FLAC audio format is perfect for archiving and sharing audio at high quality, without consuming large amounts of storage space. Users with supported portable digital voice recorders can import LPEC files and edit the audio directly on the Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum timeline.
ATRAC .aa3 format support:
Vegas Movie Studio 9 software includes ATRAC (.aa3) and ATRAC lossless format editing and encoding, surround encoding and decoding support, and the ability to encode up to 512 kbps, 48kHz. This feature allows users of Sony devices including MP3 players, NET-MD players, and HI-MD players can natively edit and export ATRAC formats without needing another conversion tool.
Insert I-frames at markers:
The MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder supports I-Frame insertion at timeline markers. (I-Frames are a representation of a complete frame that following frames are derived; more I-frames means a larger file) By providing I-Frames at timeline markers, a rendered file has precise chapter and navigation point placement for DVD Architect Studio software.
Envelope brush “paint” tool:
Track envelopes such as audio volume and pan, and video composite levels are customized via points over time. The envelope brush tool provides user with the ability to “paint” an envelope curve over time by holding down the shift key. This provides a quick way to “outline” the general shape of the envelope without placing and modifying many distinct points. The “auto-thinning” feature provides a mathematical approximation of the drawn curve with as few points as possible. The resulting points can be further optimized independently.
New! Single-monitor fullscreen preview:
Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum enhances the preview experience by providing functionality to view the timeline on both the Preview window and an external device (or secondary display) simultaneously. Additional Preview window enhancements included new scaling options and “auto-fit” to maximize the preview experience with available window space. Simultaneous preview provides editors with the ability to setup a large scale viewing environment while preserving the editor’s on-screen editing environment. In particular, laptop based systems can easily switch between editing and full screen preview modes.
View media marker names in events:
Media used in the timeline may contain markers. This product can enable the display of these media markers directly on the timeline event. Individual media will have individual markers. By displaying the individual media marker.
System Requirements:
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