One suite fits all
The Vegas Pro 9 collection offers the most robust and progressive video editing platform available for content creation and production. With broad format support, superior effects processing, unparalleled audio support, and a full complement of editorial tools, this powerful suite streamlines your workflow from acquisition to delivery.

Top reasons to consider Vegas Pro 9:

• Native support for nearly all SD and HD video formats
• Broad format support including XDCAM EX and RED ONE
• Intuitive Blu-ray Disc authoring
• 4K project support, up to 4096 x 4096
• Most powerful audio tools available in an NLE
• Includes native 32- and 64-bit versions of Vegas Pro 9

Vegas Pro 9 software has extensive capture, import, and export support for video and audio. With the Vegas Pro 9 collection you can efficiently edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM™ formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs.

The New Vegas Pro 9 interface provides a fully customizable workspace for accomplishing a wide range of production requirements. Dock multiple windows and save layouts to fit certain tasks; nest Vegas Pro projects within the timeline, design and save keyboard commands, and use application scripting to automate repetitive tasks. System-wide media management produces maximum efficiency. Network rendering saves time by using multiple computers and networked drive arrays to render complex projects.

Powerful Editing Tools
Efficiently edit and arrange events on the Vegas Pro timeline using drag-and-drop operations. Apply real time effects, transitions, envelopes, color changes, reverse, time-stretching and motion effects. Expertly edit complex SD or HD long-form projects using mouse or keyboard trimming along with powerful ripple editing modes.

Real Time Playback and Nondestructive Editing
Playback and edit video effects, transitions and composites on-the-fly without rendering while viewing each change instantly on external monitors in real time. Vegas software takes advantage of the PC's processing power by caching complex processes or effects directly to RAM for smooth frame-rate playback and previews.

Default Layouts for Video Editing Make Vegas Pro 9 Easier to Learn & Use
Vegas Pro 9 software gives you the option of several default layouts with windows arranged for various editing tasks. These layouts can be further modified and saved for a truly customized layout and workflow designed for the way you work. New in version 9 are the Audio Mixing and Color Correction layouts.

Support for Gigapixel-Size Pictures New!
With Vegas Pro 9 software you can pan, scan, and crop extremely large images to create a movie sequence while maintaining HD resolution. Vegas Pro 9 software also supports video stills from professional-level camcorders and still cameras that take stitch multiple pictures together to form a large single image.

Enhanced Native XDCAM and AVCHD Support New!
The new Device Explorer feature enables users to quickly browse the contents of both XDCAM EX devices and AVCHD cameras, allowing users to selectively import files and use them natively, without conversion to an intermediate format.

Vegas Pro 9 also allows users to directly capture XDCAM-compatible MXF files from supported SD/HDSDI sources. The new capture-compress function allows broadcast editors to convert their legacy SD or HD tape-based material, including Digital Betacam, HDCAM, and DVCPRO 100, into high-quality, IT-friendly MXF clips conforming to the Sony XDCAM MPEG2 standard.

Open and Edit RED ONE™ Files on the Timeline New!
Vegas Pro 9 software has advanced support for 4K workflows, including support for RED ONE™ files.

Premium Encoding Tools
Vegas Pro 9 software has high-quality 2-pass VBR MPEG-2 encoding for DVD, broadcast, and other delivery targets. The high-quality DV codec delivers pristine colors, incredibly sharp images, artifact-free compositing and unparalleled recompression quality.

Updated Sony AVC Rendering Templates
Vegas Pro 9 software includes several new templates for rendering to formats supported by online video sharing sites such as YouTube™.

Video Features

• New! 4K support for frame sizes up to 4096x4096
• New! Support for capturing directly to XDCAM-compatible MXF files from supported SDK sources
• New! Automatic source media adjustment for working with mismatched media
• New! Enhanced 32-bit floating point video levels mode designed to work like 8-bit mode but with the precision needed for 10-bit and higher sources and render formats
• New! Gradient wipe transition
• New! Glint, Rays, Defocus, Starburst, Soft Contrast, and Fill Light video effects
• ProType Titler
• Intuitive multicam editing workflow
• Digital signage support
• Improved HDV, SD/HD-SDI support
• Red-eye reduction (stills only)
• Comprehensive XDCAM Optical Media support, including full proxy workflow
• Superior frame rate conversions
• Multitrack video editing on unlimited tracks
• 3D track motion
• Enhanced video compositing
• Keyframeable Bézier masks
• Keyframeable transitions, filters, and track motion
• 3-wheel primary and secondary color correction filters
• Waveform, Vectorscope, Parade, and Histogram monitors
• Real time playback of effects, processes and transitions to external monitor
• Credit rolls and text animation
• Transition progress envelopes
• Alpha channel support
• Flash™ (.swf) format import
• Support for any aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9, etc)
• Supports multiple file formats and frame rates
• 24p DV support

Audio Features

• New! Place and edit audio without quantizing to frame boundaries, while still quantizing video edits
• New! Multichannel audio adds from Trimmer Window
• Professional audio mixer console
• Broadcast Wave format multichannel support
• AAF track volume and pan info support
• Gracenote MusicID™ CD album recognition
• VST plug-in effect support
• Tape-style audio scrubbing
• Audio recording, editing, and mixing on unlimited tracks
• 24-bit/192 kHz audio support
• 5.1 surround mixing tools
• On-the-fly punch-in recording
• Auto-input record monitoring
• 5.1 audio plug-in support for the master bus
• Film-style 5.1 surround panning
• Downmix monitoring
• DirectX® plug-in effects automation
• Includes over 30 DirectX audio effects
• ACID® loop properties support
• ASIO driver support
• Keyboard event pitch shifting
• Fader automation
• Real time record meters
• 32 assignable effects and 26 Master and Aux outputs
• Bus-to-bus routing
• Solo or mute tracks
• Master, auxiliary, and effects bus tracks

Editing and Workflow Features

• New! Includes native 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vegas Pro software
• New! Enhanced user interface with layout presets
• New! Impressive lighting effects including Glint, Rays, and Fill Light
• New! Darker color palette UI for optimized viewing
• New! Audio Mixing and Color Correction default layouts
• New! Browse XDCAM EX and AVCHD contents in Device Explorer
• Interactive tutorials
• Scripting extensions
• Save and recall window layouts
• Flexible window docking
• Cursor object "snapping"
• Support for XDCAM essence markers
• Envelope brush "painting"
• Improved project copy and trim operations
• Improved multiprocessor rendering
• Project nesting
• System-wide media management
• AAF Import/Export
• A/V synchronization detect and repair
• Real time nondestructive editing
• Split-screen A/B previewing
• Simple drag-and-drop operations
• Network rendering
• Envelope automation recording
• High Definition editing and output
• Searchable Media Pool bins
• Media subclips
• Automatic crossfades
• Trimmer window
• JKL scrub; timeline and keyboard trimming
• Real time A/V event reverse
• Dual monitor support
• Multiple docking windows
• User-definable window layouts
• Customizable keyboard mapping
• Dual processor DV rendering support
• Keyboard trimming and event shuffling
• Edit on 23.976, native 24, 25, 29.97 or 30 fps timelines
• Unlimited undo/redo
• Media Explorer window

Capture, Export, and Hardware Features

• New! Native XDCAM EX reading and import
• New! Support for gigapixel size pictures
• New! Read and save DPX, OpenEXR, and Microsoft HD Photo formats
• New! Open and edit RED ONE™ files on the timeline
• New! Device Explorer for AVCHD and XDCAM EX devices
• Blu-ray Disc burning directly from the timeline
• No-recompress rendering for long GOP HDV
• XDCAM partial conform for FAM mode
• Export directly to PlayStation Portable
• AVC/AAC support
• MPEG-2, Insert I-Frame at markers
• ATRAC 3 input and output
• Import from DVD camcorder disc
• SDI deck insert editing per channel
• Render to mxf for XDCAM
• Blackmagic Design DeckLink™ board support
• External control surface support
• Advanced streaming media tools
• Application scripting for task automation
• Subtitle time/text export to DVD Architect Prosoftware
• Windows Media™ 9 Series support, including surround encoding
• RealVideo™ 9 support
• QuickTime® format support
• VideoCD and multimedia CD burning
• Red Book audio CD production
• Advanced encoding tools
• EDL export
• MPEG-1&2 support
• Supports Windows Media® and RealMedia® commands
• Sony DSR-DU1 and DSR-DR1000 disc recorder support
• J-H3 HDCAM player support for DV downconverts
• 3:2 pulldown removal from DV .AVI files
• Exports chapter markers and subtitles to DVD Architect Pro 5 software

DVD Architect Pro 5 Features
General Features

• DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring
• Scripting support
• Random playlist playback
• Parental control
• Cinescore plug-in integration
• Photoshop® (PSD) layer support
• Jacket picture creation
• Theme export
• Menu-based and single movie DVD creation
• Easy-to-use drag-and-drop functionality
• Unlimited number of undo/redo
• Media Explorer
• Adjustable Project and File Optimization Settings
• Multi-monitor support
• Multi-processor support
• Fully customizable toolbars
• Get Media from the web

Editing and Layout Features

• Keyframeable Transformations
• Keyframeable Crop and Effects
• Additional marker types
• Graphical subtitles
• Title reordering
• Snap to I-Frame
• Greater than 100% zoom
• 4:3 and 16:9 preview settings
• DVD Mastering tools: DLT, DDP, CMF
• Project playlists
• Copy-protection tools (CSS and Macrovision®)
• Media effects
• Project navigation tool
• Still and motion menu creation
• Support for multiple video titles
• Real time external monitor preview via i.LINK®/IEEE-1394
• Subtitle creation and support
• Multiple audio track support
• Programmable end actions for menus and media
• Project overview window
• Multiple menus with up to 36 buttons per menu
• Menu object editing, alignment and sizing tools
• Text editing and shadow effects
• Object snapping
• Slide image rotation
• Add, edit, and move chapter points
• Title and Action safe grid area
• Customizable Themes
• Menu looping

Video Features

• Buttons on video
• Crop and adjust dialog
• Slideshow animations
• Picture slideshow duration
• Multiangle video selection
• DVD movie creation
• Picture slideshows
• Elementary stream import
• 24p DVD encoding
• No re-encoding of compliant files
• NTSC and PAL in normal (4:3) and wide-screen (16:9) formats
• Imports AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOV, WMV, and a variety of still image formats

Audio Features

• ATRAC Support
• Multiple audio track support
• Music compilations
• Attach audio files to menus
• Media file previewing
• Import WAV, MP3, WMA, PCA, AIF, MPEG audio, AC-3 5.1 or stereo into your DVD Architect Pro project
• 24-bit/192kHz audio support

Testing and Burning Features

• Burn mastered folder
• 8cm to 12cm DVD Copy
• Button overlap indication
• Smart-project re-prepare
• Dual-layer burning and authoring support
• Real time project previewing with virtual remote control or to external monitor
• Project verification and preparation
• Advanced disc optimization with adjustable bitrates
• Fit to disc option
• Supports a wide variety of DVD burners

Supported File Formats

Opens: AA3, AAF, AIF, ASF, AU, AVI, BMP, BWF, CDA, DIG, DLX, DPX, DV, EXR, FLAC, GIF, HDP, IVC, JPG, M2T, M2TS, MOV, Sony MXF, MP3, MP4, M4A, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, MTS, OGG, OMA, PCA, PNG, PSD, QT, R3D, SFA, SND, SWF*, TIFF, TGA, VOX, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV

Saves: AA3, AC3, AIF, ATRAC, AVC, AVI, DPX, EXR, FLAC, HDP, MOV, MP3, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, MP4, M2T, Sony MXF, OGG, PCA, RM, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV

DVD encoding, Video: NTSC 4:3, NTSC Widescreen, PAL 4:3, PAL Widescreen

DVD encoding, Audio: AC-3 5.1 or stereo, PCM

BD encoding, Video: MPEG-2 or AVC, 1080-60i, 1080-50i and 1080-24p

BD encoding, Audio: AC-3 5.1 or stereo, PCM

*ActionScripting, motion video and audio not supported
 
Supported DVD recordable drives
DVD Architect Pro software has been tested with a wide range of drives and should work with most DVD recordable drives. To test DVD burning with your system, you can download the DVD Architect Pro Demo and the sample project for burning. This is available on the download page. From the File menu, choose Make DVD, click the Burn button, and browse to the prepared project folder.

System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® XP 32-bit SP2 (SP3 recommended) or Windows Vista™ 32-bit or 64-bit (SP1 recommended)
• 1 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD)
• 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• OHCI-compatible i.LINK® connector*/IEEE-1394DV card (for DV and HDV capture and print-to-tape)
• USB 2.0 connection (for importing from AVCHD, XDCAM EX, or DVD camcorders)
• Windows-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
• Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Supported DVD-recordable drive (for DVD burning only)
• Supported Blu-ray recordable drive (for Blu-ray Disc burning only)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
• QuickTime® 7.1.6 or later

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