Say farewell to boring home movies and vacation slideshows. With Vegas Movie Studio home video editing and DVD authoring software you can create captivating videos that beg to be watched again and again. Digital video editing tools add professional pizzazz with transitions, titles, and special effects including green screen. Quickly format movies for online sharing sites or author your own DVDs. Our exclusive Show Me How tutorials help you get started fast. Just follow along with the step-by-step instructions and learn as you go.

Use Vegas Movie Studio software to:

• Add special effects, transitions, titles, and music to your home movies for Hollywood-style results
• Zoom, rotate, and pan across photos to animate still images in your movies
• Make your own DVDs with multiple motion menus and custom navigation
• Commemorate special events such as weddings and anniversaries
• Create exciting, professional-looking business presentations

Make Your Own Movies, Slideshows, Presentations, and More
Vegas Movie Studio software makes video editing easy and fun. Best of all, Vegas Movie Studio software is a real-time nondestructive video editor. No matter what changes you make to your video and photos in the software, your original files are never affected! Vegas Movie Studio software gives you the freedom to experiment and have fun with video editing, without worrying about making a mistake.

Upload movies to YouTube
Publish Directly to YouTubeCreating videos for YouTube is easy and fun with Vegas Movie Studio software. Its full set of tools for editing, video restoration, and soundtrack creation will help you create compelling videos that get noticed. Click the "publish to YouTube" button to instantly upload your video.

Simple DVD Creation
DVD Architect™ Studio software is included so you can create and burn professional-looking DVDs. You'll have fun producing DVDs with custom menus, buttons, backgrounds, and navigation. 44 easy-to-use DVD themes are included to get you started.

New! Helpful Project Wizards
Vegas Movie Studio 9 software has two new wizards to help you get started quickly. The New Project wizard provides an efficient workflow for video editing and helps ensure that projects are set up correctly. The Make Movie wizard eliminates the guesswork for delivery and provides optimized final files in just a few clicks — whether you want to publish your movie to YouTube or another website, burn it to a DVD, or send it as an email attachment.

Learn as You Go with Easy Tutorials
Our exclusive Show Me How tutorials guide you through the entire creative process. Whenever you need help, just click the Show Me How button and choose your tutorial topic. Helpful text dialogue boxes, pointers, and guides will actually show you what to do and where to click.

The Perfect Soundtrack
Vegas Movie Studio software includes the Cinescore Studio plug-in for easily creating customized music soundtracks in just minutes. Choose from royalty-free Cinescore themes that can be modified to fit your movie's length and mood. Additional Cinescore theme packs are also available.

Professional Power
Built on award-winning Vegas software technology used in motion picture and recording studios worldwide, Vegas Movie Studio software puts the power of the pros on your desktop.

VIDEO EDITING

• Add Movie Magic
  Enhance your video with effects, titles, and filters. Play video in slow, fast, or even reverse motion. Apply the look of old film or experiment with fun green screen effects. Nearly 300 customizable effects and over 185 transitions provide endless creative options.
• Shoot for Perfection
  Easily restore dull, washed-out footage, apply brightness and contrast, sharpen images, balance colors, and remove red-eye from photos. Vegas Movie Studio software includes sophisticated image restoration tools for a variety of tasks.
• Ken Burns Effect
  Named for the American documentary filmmaker who pioneered the technique, The Ken Burns Effect gives life to still images in your movies by slowly zooming in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. Vegas Movie Studio software let you achieve effects like this with easy-to-use Pan and Crop tools. Easily zoom in or out, pan and scan, and rotate pictures in any direction to create dynamic slideshows and movies with a professional feel.
• Easy Import from DV/DVD Camcorders
  Quickly transfer digital photos and video from DV and DVD camcorders* to your computer. Vegas Movie Studio software expertly organizes everything so you can search, sort, and view your media.
• Keyframeable Real-time Effects with Preview
  Vegas Movie Studio software includes over 290 video effects and more than 185 2D and 3D video transitions to enhance your movies. All of the video effects are keyframeable: you can set the specific video frame where an effect begins and the frame where it stops working. You can even specify the level of effect for every frame in between!
  To see how your effects and transitions in action, Vegas Movie Studio software lets you preview effects and transitions in real time at full resolution on your computer monitor or on a secondary monitor.
• Flash Format Import
  Import Flash™ (.swf) files** directly into Vegas Movie Studio software. The vector-based .swf files can be scaled to any project size without loss of resolution. Create complex text animations and other effects for projects using any editing tool that supports .swf export.

DVD CREATION

• Easy DVD Creation
  Vegas Movie Studio software comes with DVD Architect Studio software so you can easily create and burn professional-looking DVDs. You'll be creating picture slide shows, single-movie DVDs, music compilations, and menu-based DVDs on your computer in no time!
  DVD Architect Studio software is incredibly easy to use. Many of the editing operations, commands, and shortcut keys are common to other popular software applications, as well as other Sony Creative Software applications.
  You'll have fun producing DVDs with multiple menus, motion buttons and backgrounds, menu to menu links, and custom navigation. You can even add your own behind-the-scenes features, director's cuts, outtakes, bloopers, and more.
• Easy DVD Preview
  The Preview window allows you to preview your DVD project on a simulated television screen with a virtual remote control. Use the buttons on the remote control to navigate and play your project.
• Extensive Video and Audio Support
  DVD Architect Studio software supports today's popular video and audio formats such as AVI, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2, so you can make DVDs that will play on almost any DVD player or DVD-capable computer.

AUDIO TOOLS

• Add Music and Sound Effects
  Vegas Movie Studio software includes the Cinescore Studio plug-in for easily creating customized music soundtracks in just minutes. Choose from royalty-free Cinescore themes that can be modified to fit your movie's length and mood. You can also import your own music directly from CDs or MP3 audio files.
• Easy Live Recording
  You can use Vegas Movie Studio software to record your own audio such as voiceovers, music, and narration to include in your project. Vegas Movie Studio has four audio tracks, any of which can be used to record. You can also create different takes that you can select to include in your project.
• Restore Audio
  The Audio Restoration plug-in lets you remove clicks, pops, and other noise from your music and audio clips to ensure the highest fidelity soundtrack for your video project.
• Track Envelopes
  Envelopes are a way to control a parameter, such as volume, over time. With Vegas Movie Studio software you can use envelopes to control audio volume and panning.
• Native VST Effect and DirectX® Audio Plug-In Support
  You can use effects to manipulate the audio components of your project. Vegas Movie Studio software supports additional DirectX and VST effects from a variety of vendors. Audio effects can be applied to all events on a track or as assignable effects.
• ACID loop support
  For easy video scoring and audio mixing, Vegas Movie Studio software includes ACID® loop support. ACID loops are royalty-free music samples that contain special metadata which allows them to automatically match the existing project tempo and key. The Sound Series: Loops & Samples collection contains over 100 libraries of ACID loops in nearly every music style and genre imaginable.

System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® XP SP 2 or Windows Vista™
• 800 MHz processor
• 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 256 MB RAM
• OHCI-compatible i.LINK® connector1/IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape)
• Windows-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Supported DVD- R /- RW /+ R /+ RW drive (for DVD burning only)
• Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on application disc)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (included on application disc)