Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum Production Suite system requirements

• Microsoft^® Windows^® XP SP3, Windows Vista™ SP2, or Windows 7
• 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D)
• 400 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• Windows-compatible sound card

• OHCI-compatible i.LINK^® connector*/IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape)
• USB 2.0 connection (for importing from AVCHD or DVD camcorders)
• Apple^® QuickTime^® 7.1.6 or later
• Internet Connection (for Gracenote MusicID Service)

• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
• Supported CD-recordable drive
  (for CD burning only)
• Supported DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW
  (for DVD burning only)
• Supported BD-R/-RE drive drive
  (for Blu-ray Disc™ burning only)

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (included on application disc)

You must provide registration information to Sony Creative Software Inc., a US company, in order to activate the software. Product requires online registration within 30 days.

General Features

• New! Transport Control support for Trimmer and Preview Window
• New! Horizontal Window Docking
• New! Titles & Text Plug-in
• Microsoft^® Windows^® 7 certified
• Streamlined New Project creation wizard
• Darker color palette
• Customizable windows layouts
• Device Explorer Window
• Slideshow Creator
• Save As dialog with Copy media with project check box
• Media Generator Match Event Length
• Keyboard modifiers
• Time Selection Envelope editing
• Automatically crop still images
• 360 exclusive music soundtracks
• Improved native HDV .m2t playback performance and improved memory handling for HDV long form projects
• Sony AVCHD enhancements
• Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline.
• Display of media marker names in events.
• Color-coded visual snap indicator and the ability to snap to event edges on other tracks
• Multitrack video and audio editing
• Real-time editing of parameters during playback
• Support for any aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9, etc)
• Supports multiple file formats and frame rates
• High-definition editing and output
• Simple drag-and-drop operations
• Built-in Show Me How interactive tutorials
• Explorer view
• Project media bins
• Track markers and regions
• Unlimited undo/redo

Video Features

• New! Stereoscopic 3D editing
• New! Added support for 24p, 50p and 60p projects
• New! Enhanced Video Plug-in architecture
• New! Added support for MVC and MPO file formats
• New! Single-Display 3D Support
• Up to 10 video tracks
• Image stabilization
• White Balance video plug-in
• Secondary Color Corrector plug-in
• Subclips in the Trimmer window
• Automatic Video Preview playback optimization
• Adjust source media to automatically match project or render settings
• Gradient Wipe transition
• Full-screen preview to a primary and secondary Windows display
• Real-time playback of effects, processes and transitions to external monitor
• Color-correction tools
• MPEG-1&2 support
• Superior frame rate conversions
• Credit rolls and text animation
• Over 400 video effects and transitions
• External monitor preview
• Ripple editing across tracks

Supported File Formats

Opens: AAC, AA3, AIFF, AVI, BMP, CDA, FLAC, GIF, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MVC, OGG, OMA, PCA, PNG, RealMedia^®, QuickTime^®, SND, SFA, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV

Saves: AAC, AC3, AA3, AIFF, AVC, AVI, BMP, FLAC, JPEG, LPEC, MP3, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MVC, OGG, PCA, PNG, RealMedia^®, TIFF, QuickTime, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV

Capture/Export/Hardware Features

• New! Improved Quicktime AVC decode
• New! Improved Render and Make Movie Dialogs
• New! File format and template updates
• New! OpenCL AVC Encode through OrangeFrost
• New! Upload 3D projects to YouTube 3D
• Integrated DVD burning from the timeline
• Render As dialog templates display templates matching the project with a "=" symbol
• Custom render template creation
• Improved support for AVC/AAC (MPEG-4) video
• Support for GPU-accelerated AVC rendering using the Sony AVC plug-in
• Burn to Blu-ray Disc™ from timeline
• Integrated upload to YouTube™
• Import and export support for FLAC files
• Import support for LPEC files
• Import support for MJPEG-encoded AVI files
• Sony AVCHD import and edit support
• Import and export ATRAC3™, ATRAC3plus™, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless™ files
• Insert I-frames at marker positions when rendering MPEG-2 (works in conjunction with I-frame viewer in DVD Architect Studio 5.0)
• Gracenote^® MusicID™ CD album identification
• AC3 stereo and 5.1 encoding
• MainConcept AVC/AAC, read/write (templates only) iPod format
• PSP^® (PlayStation^®Portable) integration
• Sony AVC/AAC (templates only)

Audio Features

• New! Event level audio effect assignment
• Up to 10 audio tracks
• Zplane élastique audio timestretching and pitch shifting
• Place audio without quantizing to frame boundaries
• Improved Audio Waveform drawing
• Multithreaded audio engine maximizes performance
• Gracenote^® MusicID™ CD album identification
• Basic surround support
• Support for multichannel (5.1) source files for Sony HDV Handycam^® camcorders
• 16-bit, 44.1 kHz song quality for exceptional performance
• Volume and pan envelopes
• Audio time stretching
• Event normalization
• CD audio extraction

Exclusive Production Suite Features

• New! NewBlueFX audio and video Effects
• New! 40 additional soundtracks
• New! Video Tutorial DVD
• 1,001 Sound Effects

General

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 7 certified
• Burning to Blu-ray Disc™
• Enhanced window layout management — save, recall, and share custom window layouts.
• Built-in Show Me How interactive tutorials
• End actions for menus and media
• Project overview window
• Customizable user interface
• DVD theme export
• Project playlists
• Smart reprepare

DVD design and authoring

• Menu-based and single-movie DVD creation
• Picture slideshows and music compilations
• Easy to use drag-and drop interface
• Unlimited number of undo/redo
• Media Explorer
• Adjustable project and file optimization settings
• Multimonitor support
• Multiprocessor support
• Fully customizable toolbars
• DVD editing and layout
• Still and motion menu creation
• Support for multiple video titles
• 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

• Fit-to-disc compression
• DVD movie creation
• NTSC and PAL in standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) formats
• Imports AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOV, WMV, and a variety of still image formats

Audio

• Music compilations
• Attach audio files to menus
• Media file previewing
• Import WAV, MP3, WMA, PCA, AIF, MPEG audio

Testing and Burning

• Dual-layer drive support
• Real-time project previewing with virtual DVD remote control or to external monitor
• DVD project verification and preparation
• Supports a wide variety of DVD burners

General Features

• New! 24-bit/32-bit float, 192 kHz audio support
• New! Microsoft^® Windows 7 support
• New! Global Media cache
• New! Customizable window layouts
• New! Floating window docks
• New! Tabbed data window browsing
• New! Custom selection gridlines
• Show Me How interactive tutorials
• Simple editing and navigation
• Easy drag-and-drop functionality
• Real-time nondestructive editing
• Multitask background rendering
• Media Explorer with automatic file previewing
• Automatic left and right mono-to-stereo merge
• Fully customizable toolbars
• Mix, paste, and crossfade
• Automatic file mixing and conversion
• Unlimited Undo/Redo
• Over 30 built-in effects & processes
• System and user-defined function presets
• Enhanced Preset Manager
• Crash recovery
• Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time
• Embed URL flips within audio and video stream
• Mono and stereo sound files
• Real-time play and record meters
• Full support for 4 GB and larger files
• Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars
• Compress sound files for 8-bit distribution

Sample Editing

• Sustaining Loop, Release Loop Recording
• Real-time record meters
• Remote record function

Tools

• New! Enhanced Vinyl Recording and Restoration Tool
• New! Metadata Windows
• Integrated disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning
• JKL scrubbing
• Gracenote^® MusicID™ CD album identification
• Track-at-once CD burning
• Drag-and-drop CD extraction
• Express FX™ Vinyl Restoration Tool
• Statistics Tool
• Simple Synthesis with sweep
• DTMF/MF Synthesis

Effects

• New! Resonant Filter plug-in
• Vocal Eraser plug-in
• DirectX audio plug-in support
• VST audio effect support
• ASIO driver support
• Amplitude Modulation
• Chorus
• Delay
• Distortion
• Dynamics
• Envelopes
• Flange/Wah-Wah
• Noise Gate
• Pitch Bend
• Reverb
• Stutter

Regions and Playlists

• Updated marker and region ruler with selection snapping
• Regions List
• Name markers, loops, and regions

Processes

• Bit Depth Converter (to 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit)
• DC Offset
• 10-band EQ
• Fade In/Out
• Graphic Fade
• Multiple fade curve types
• Insert Silence
• Invert/Flip
• Mute
• Normalize
• Pan
• Resample
• Reverse
• Smooth/Enhance
• Swap channels
• Time Compress
• Volume

Tools for ACID^® Software

• Create loops for use in ACID software
• Loop-editing toolbar
• Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo

Timing Basis

• New! Time Display window
• Absolute Frames
• Measures and Beats
• Samples, Time, Seconds
• SMPTE Drop/Non-Drop
• SMPTE EBU/Film Sync
• Time and Frames

Audio and Video Support and Encoding

• New! AAC support
• Save files to popular multimedia and Internet file formats
• Windows Media^® 9 import and export, RealMedia^® 9 export
• QuickTime^® 6 import
• Adjustable video frame rate and frame size
• Video frame display above waveform
• Edit AVI files with multiple audio streams
• Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video
• Audio and video synchronization with sub-frame accuracy
• Various video and audio compression options
• Support for 24 fps native DV video files
• Video Preview window

Supported Formats

Import: AAC, AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, DIG, FLAC, SD, IVC, MP3, OGG, OMA, PCA, QuickTime^®, RAW, SND, SFA, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV

Export: AAC, AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, DIG, FLAC, IVC, MP3, OGG, RealAudio^®, PCA, RAW, RealVideo^®, QuickTime, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV