Dear Community,

First and foremost, we want to thank you all for your continued loyalty and your patience. This time, we have a large update for you where we will fulfill a longtime wish. Drum roll please... We will support AMD GPU acceleration!

But hold your horses...  There's more! We have a long list of performance and stability improvements for you as well.

You can download the build 361 now at: http://rdir.magix.net/?page=KN21DNJXNGEU

Did this patch help you? Let us know in our general discussion thread.

New Features

• Added support for AMD VCE hardware acceleration for encoding 8-bit, progressive HEVC files and H264 AVC/AAC files
• The So4Coumpoundplug now supports reading Timecode from MP4/MOV files formats such as GoPro, XAVC-S, and Alpaha 7s cameras
• 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
• Added a link in the Help menu to the VEGAS Community home page where users can quickly access the VEGAS user forums, tutorial videos, and the VEGAS Magazine

Bug Fixes

• Selectively Paste Attributes can now copy event switches independently of audio FX
• Improved workflow and performance of the Swap Video Files function including that the folder dialog now remembers the last used diretory
• OK button in the Video Swap is now properly positioned regardless of any resizing of the dialog box
• 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
• Problems reading ProRes files on the timeline have been resolved
• 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
• Tabbing behavior has been improved in the Render As dialog box so that the results of tabbing from one control to the next is more logical
• The Swap Media dialog box no longer places the OK button in an unexpected state upon window resize
• 32-bit, 4K projects now calculate project size correctly and no longer exhibit random failures or unexpected behavior
• The Explorer window now properly preserves the file list arrangement in Details mode
• Tabbing behavior in the Render As dialog box has been greatly improved
• Event header buttons no longer get clipped by the vertical scrollbar
• A problem that could cause audio FX to have a cumulative effect when they should not has been resolved
• Customization of favorite render templates is now properly recognized
• Memory management has been improved to enhance render performance for GPUs with less than 4GB memory on 4K 32 bit projects
• The application now properly handles codec activation requests when the PC is off line
• Audio FX no longer have a cumulative effect when looping playback of a 32-bit WAV file
• Right-clicking to open the context menu with several events selected, some of which are empty, no longer causes a crash
• The LUT OFX plug-in now properly handles alpha values
• MAGIX AVC/AAC plugin now shows the full set of encoding modes when the QSV global preference is disabled
• The File Name field in the Render As dialog box no longer locks users out after rendering to a P2 file
• Region metadata from the Sony A7 camera is now properly supported
• Paste Event Attributes from an event holding footage of one frame size to an even holding footage of a different frame size now handles event Pan/Crop values properly
• Opening the event context menu or the Edit menu when a video track has three or more empty events on it no longer causes a crash

Have you missed an update? Have a look at our previous patch notes!

VEGAS Pro 14

Update 1 & 2 (build 178 & 189)

Update 3 (build 201)

Update 4 (build 211)

Update 5 (build 244)

Update 6 (build 252)

Update 7 (build 270)

VEGAS Pro 15

VEGAS Pro 15 Release

Update 1 (build 216)

Update 2 (build 261)

Update 3 (build 311)

Update 4 (build 321)

Best regards,
Mathias