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Movie Studio Changelog

What's new in Movie Studio 17.0.103

Apr 27, 2020
  • Powerful effects and transitions management:
  • VEGAS Movie Studio makes finding the plug-ins you want super easy. Look for your plug-ins arranged by category, or search keywords to instantly find all of the plug-ins of a specific type. Mark your favorites or filter by third-party plug-ins.
  • Smoother video preview:
  • VEGAS Movie Studio uses the full power of your graphics card, so you see smoother previews and can work much faster. VEGAS Pro and now VEGAS Movie Studio are the first NLEs to support AMD GPU decode acceleration. True power!
  • Unified Color Grading workflow:
  • With the new color grading panel, adjust colors, saturation and gain to take complete control over your video's shadows, mid tones, and highlights. The Secondary Color Corrector lets you zero in on and tweak one particular color while you leave other colors unchanged.

New in Movie Studio 15.0.0 Build 99 (Feb 26, 2018)

  • VEGAS Movie Studio:
  • User interface improvements
  • Quick Start window
  • Improved Add Media options
  • Event Healing
  • Hardware acceleration improvements
  • Improved file format support including iPhone video files
  • VEGAS Movie Studio Platinum (in addition to Movie Studio):
  • Two-option selectable background shade
  • Logical, modern docking window behaviors and controls
  • PinP OFX plug-in
  • Crop OFX plug-in
  • Instant freeze frame video creation
  • HEVC support
  • VEGAS Movie Studio Suite (in addition to Platinum):
  • Jumpstart Templates, Vol. 1
  • iZotope RX Elements
  • Boris Continuum Film Style Unit
  • HitFilm Boost Pack

New in Movie Studio 14.0.0 Build 114 (Jul 18, 2017)

  • VEGAS Movie Studio:
  • New user interface
  • Social media upload
  • Vignette effect
  • 4K monitor support
  • Music Maker
  • VEGAS Movie Studio Platinum (in addition to Movie Studio):
  • Multicam production
  • Trimmer window hover scrub
  • Improved RAM Preview
  • NewBlueFX Platinum Complete
  • VEGAS Movie Studio Suite (in addition to Platinum):
  • SmartSound® Sonicfire® Pro 6
  • NewBlueFX Titler Pro Express
  • NewBlueFX Suite Complete
  • HitFilm Toolkit Pack

New in Movie Studio 13.0.0 Build 196 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Just a "touch" of editing:
  • Movie Studio is touch-enabled, which means that using a mouse to drag and drop clips to the timeline is a thing of the past!
  • Make edits, add transitions and effects, and record a voiceover – all with the touch of a finger on your touchscreen PC.
  • Supports a broad variety of formats:
  • Quickly import digital photos and video from a variety of digital devices, including HDV and AVCHD™ camcorders, smart phones, and DSLR cameras.

New in Movie Studio 11.0 Build 75 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • Resolved an issue in the MainConcept AVC/AAC Custom Settings dialog that caused some controls to remain available when Include video was not selected.
  • Fixed an issue rendering Low Complexity AAC QuickTime files.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the Custom Settings dialog from displaying for QuickTime rendering templates.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when rendering to AVI format when Include video was not selected in the Custom Settings dialog.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when opening certain FLAC files.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause HDV renders to contain incorrect metadata.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause video plug in controls to be displayed incorrectly after adjusting a parameter beyond its normal range.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause inconsistencies with the timeline cursor when entering a value in a video plug-in's Cursor Position box.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause preset thumbnails for video effects to display incorrectly.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the Titles & Text plug-in to crash when editing shadows.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the Tools > Burn Disc > Blu-ray Disc command to be unavailable.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Normal metronome sound from being displayed in Preferences > Audio.
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent Show Me How tutorials from being displayed in French installations of Vegas Movie Studio.

New in Movie Studio 11.0 Build 42 (Feb 18, 2012)

  • Updated Sony AVC format render template customization to support AVCHD 2.0.
  • Added a Blu-ray AVC setting to the Video format drop-down list in the Customize Settings dialog, allowing you to customize Sony AVC render templates for Blu-ray Disc.
  • The Tools > Burn Disc > Blu-ray Disc with Menus command is unavailable when working with 5.1 surround projects.
  • Fixed an issue that caused 5.1 surround AVCHD rendering templates to be available when working with a stereo project.
  • Fixed an issue that could create duplicate tracks when switching a project from stereo to 5.1 surround.
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent Vegas Movie Studio from reading 5.1-channel AAC audio correctly.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the Slideshow Creator to display images from a previous project.
  • Fixed audio issues that could occur when rendering to Windows Media Video format.

New in Movie Studio 11.0 Build 37 (Feb 18, 2012)

  • Added rendering templates to support the Sony Tablet. When rendering to the MainConcept AVC/AAC format, choose Sony Tablet 1080p or Sony Tablet 720p.
  • Vegas Movie Studio can now address up to 4 GB of memory when running on a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or Windows 7.
  • When using the Upload to YouTube dialog, tags must be at least two characters long. The Upload button is unavailable if your tag is shorter than two characters.
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent markers and regions from being saved with projects in some instances.
  • Fixed a bug in the Titles & Text plug-in that could degrade preview frame rates when using Shadow Enable.
  • Fixed a bug in the Titles & Text plug-in that excluded vertical fonts.
  • Fixed various bugs in the Titles & Text plug-in involving keyframes.
  • Fixed a bug in the Titles & Text plug-in that could cause inconsistent line spacing after line breaks.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause unexpected changes in plug-in order when adding or removing effects.
  • Fixed a bug that could prevent .MPG files from loading when the file name or folder contained Japanese characters.
  • Fixed a bug that could change the output frame size when rendering to a Blu-ray Disc template with a frame rate of 24.000 fps.
  • Fixed a bug that could occur when rendering to Sony AVC/MVC format using the Memory Stick templates.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the audio stream to be excluded after editing a Sony AVC/MVC Blu-ray Disc rendering template.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Vegas Movie Studio from displaying an error message when attempting to install to a hard drive that does not contain sufficient free space. Please ensure your hard drive has 400 MB available before beginning installation.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when using the RE:Vision Effects ClampTime plug-in.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when rendering QuickTime 56 Kbps or 100 Kbps video.

New in Movie Studio 11.0 Build 35 (Feb 18, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when displaying event properties for 3D clips from a Sony TD10 camera.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause text from the Titles & Text plug-in to drift after dragging the text in the Video Preview window.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause line breaks in the Titles & Text plug-in to preview with incorrect line spacing.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an error when rendering a Sony AVC file with a bit rate of less than 25 Mbps.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause MVC clips from a Sony TD10 camera to be imported incorrectly from the Device Explorer.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause Vegas Movie Studio to hang when previewing MTS files in the Trimmer window.
  • Fixed an error that limited Vegas Movie Studio HD to 4 video tracks. Vegas Movie Studio HD and Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum both support 10 video tracks.
  • Added Russian-language support to Vegas Movie Studio HD.

New in Movie Studio 11.0 Build 29 (Feb 18, 2012)

  • 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.

New in Movie Studio 11.0 (Feb 18, 2012)

  • Video:
  • Stereoscopic 3D editing and upload to YouTube 3D.
  • 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.
  • Full 24p support.
  • Support for rendering .mov files with multichannel audio.

New in Movie Studio 9.0c (Jun 9, 2010)

  • Added support for uploading high-definition content to YouTube.
  • Fixed a problem with importing audio from standard-definition DVD camcorder clips.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause Vegas Movie Studio to crash when using clips imported from DVD camcorders.

New in Movie Studio 9.0b (Jun 9, 2010)

  • 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.

New in Movie Studio 9.0a (Jun 9, 2010)

  • 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.

New in Movie Studio 9.0 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • 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 .