Dear community,
Today we have released the second Update for VEGAS Movie Studio 15 (build 135 & 146). Besides a lot of bug fixes we are happy to have new features ready for you, for example an unlimited amount of video and audio tracks or the Tiny Planet OFX plug-in. Let us know what you think about the new features and if the bug fixes helped you! Here our general discussion thread.
You can download the new builds here:
VEGAS Movie Studio 15.0.0.135: http://rdir.magix.net/?page=P68IPMF8T0WG
VEGAS Movie Studio 15.0.0.146 Platinum: http://rdir.magix.net/?page=RT7732R6EYAC
Here are the patch notes for this update:
VEGAS Movie Studio 15 Platinum
New Features
- Support has been added for hardware rending from qualifying AMD graphics cards to speed AVC/AAC and HEVC rendering considerably.
- Added an option to disable hardware acceleration when creating custom presets in Intel HEVC Render plugin.
- Added a preference that enables you to bypass QSV hardware acceleration and operate without this technology.
- The user can now add an unlimited number of video and audio tracks.
- The default freeze frame length is now dictated by the New still image length preference on the Editing tab of the Preferences dialog box.
- A new AutoLooks plug-in lets the user instantly apply color adjustment presets to make their video look like famous movies, film genres, or distinctive styles.
- A Tiny Planet OFX plug-in enables the user to create interesting effects such as making a video look like it's a tiny ball (or planet) or creating a "tiny sky" effect
- Jumpstart Templates Vol. 2 give VMS Suite users even more creative starting templates to create professional-looking projects
Bug Fixes
- Improved the efficiency of undo history when making changes to parameters of an OFX plug-in.
- H.263 files are now properly supported on the timeline.
- Docking window tab order no longer gets mixed up.
- Pressing Enter in the Render dialog box now properly executes a render instead of opening render options.
- Rending an image sequence to BMP and JPEG formats in 32-bit mode now yields the correct output.
- Color levels are properly preserved when rendering a 32-bit project to XDCAM-EX format.
- Resolved a conflict between QSV and 10-bit HEVC file renders on i7-770/i7-8700 systems.
- Event header buttons no longer get clipped by the vertical scrollbar.
- Memory management has been improved to enhance render performance for GPUs with less than 4GB memory on 4K 32 bit projects.
- Right-clicking to open the context menu with several events selected, some of which are empty, no longer causes a crash.
- MAGIX AVC/AAC plugin now shows the full set of encoding modes when the QSV global preference is disabled.
- Regions from Sony A7s footage are now properly supported.
- AVC/AAC files with four channels of audio are now properly read.
- Render templates are now properly highlighted so the selected one can be more easily identified.
- Tabbing now properly progresses through the Render As dialog box focus items.
VEGAS Movie Studio 15
New Features
- Support has been added for hardware rending from qualifying AMD graphics cards to speed AVC/AAC rendering considerably.
- A new AutoLooks plug-in lets the user instantly apply color adjustment presets to make their video look like famous movies, film genres, or distinctive styles.
- A Tiny Planet OFX plug-in enables the user to create interesting effects such as making a video look like it's a tiny ball (or planet) or creating a "tiny sky" effect
- Jumpstart Templates Vol. 2 give VMS Suite users even more creative starting templates to create professional-looking projects
Bug Fixes
- Improved the efficiency of undo history when making changes to parameters of an OFX plug-in.
- H.263 files are now properly supported on the timeline.
- Pressing Enter in the Render dialog box now properly executes a render instead of opening render options.
- Event header buttons no longer get clipped by the vertical scrollbar.
- Right-clicking to open the context menu with several events selected, some of which are empty, no longer causes a crash.
- MAGIX AVC/AAC plugin now shows the full set of encoding modes when the QSV global preference is disabled.
- AVC/AAC files with four channels of audio are now properly read.
- Tabbing now properly progresses through the Render As dialog box focus items.
Best regards,
Mathias