Although not yet officially announced*, VEGAS Pro 16 Update 2 (build 307) is available.
If you already have an earlier build of VEGAS Pro 16 installed, there is no need to uninstall it. Build 307 will overwrite your installation and retain your settings. Your computer will need to be online for activation after the update.
Download link. Another download link. At this moment, the download managers (...dlm.exe) are still fetching build 261.
*Update Oct 29th: now officially announced.
New Features
- You can now set any preset of the Titles and Text media generator as the default for the Insert Subtitles from Files and Insert Subtitles from Regions functions
- You can now create subtitles by importing SRT files with the Insert Subtitles from files feature
- Video scopes can now be set to display the NITS scale for HDR work, including for 8-bit projects
- VEGAS now warns you if no track has been armed for recording when you start recording and enables you to specify which existing track or tracks you want to record to, or to create a new track and record to that
- Replacing media in the Main Storyboard timeline now updates the project timeline
- The user now has the ability to "pin" another video event to a motion tracked event
- Custom frame rates can now be set when encoding using AMD and VCE render templates in the MAGIX AVC/HEVC formats
- The Main Timeline storyboard no longer automatically reacts to changes on the timeline. A Refresh Storyboard button has been added to the Project Media window when viewing a storyboard which enables you to manually match the storyboard to the timeline
- A Red background for the Main Timeline storyboard alerts the user when the storyboard is out of sync with the project timeline and must be manually updated
- A dialog box warns the user that the Main Timeline storyboard cannot be altered until it is updated to be in sync with the main timeline
- A Red warning bar at the edge of storyboard thumbnails indicates when the timeline event is longer than the media it holds
- You can now set in/out points in the storyboard for audio-only files
- You can now set in/out points in the storyboard for still-image files
- The Storyboard now properly recognizes L and J cuts and orders itself appropriately
- Added support for time stretched/compressed events hover scrub in and out point trimming, and storyboard refresh
- A new OFX plug-in enables you to add video stabilization to 360° video
Bugfixes
- The Neat Video (and other temporal effects) now works properly when placed before Pan/Crop in an event FX chain
- MTS files now render properly at 25p or lower framerates
- The Internet HD 720p 29.97 fps (AMD VCE) template now yields the proper framerate
- Reordering items in the storyboard no longer causes media in and out points to be reset
- Audio recorded using Quicktime on a Macbook Air no longer get corrupted by so4compoundplug
- The stabilization tool's Zoom parameter now properly persists through project save, close, and reload
- The Render As dialog box no longer gets hidden off screen in a dual monitor set up which would cause the appearance of VEGAS freezing
- Media in and out points are now properly honored when adding an unassociated storyboard bin to the timeline
- The Insert Subtitles from File operation now properly recognizes commas in the subtitle text
- The Add at Project Frame Rate operation now works properly when the media frame rate does not match the project frame rate
- The audio meter context menu properly appears as expected again
- The Scene Rotation plug-in has been optimized and should no longer cause occasional crashes at start up
- The AutoSave function no longer triggers the creation of an unwanted duplicate storyboard which could occur in some cases
- Crash has been resolved when using video stabilization and motion tracking with an AMD Phenom II card
- Double-clicking Color Correction custom tab parameters now properly sets the parameters to their defaults
- Overwriting files when rendering with AMD VCE templates now properly reports file size
- Deleting storyboard placeholders no longer cause crashes as they did in certain instances
- Replacing a generated placeholder with a clip no long crashes the application as was the case in certain scenarios
- Moving generated media in the storyboard now follows expected behavior
- External preview now works properly through Decklink cards in 32-bit projects
- Fixed potential inconsistencies caused by replacing a generated placeholder with a video clip
- Moving a generated media thumbnail to the end of the storyboard no longer causes an unwanted duplicate thumbnail
- Sync Cursor to Media Timeline again works properly when user clicks on a keyframe in the FX automation section
- Unwanted extra generated media thumbnails are no longer created in the storyboard when changing the order of thumbnails
- Importing bins from one project into another no longer causes a crash
- Importing media from one project into another now works properly
- The BattleCompVintage VST and other plug-ins now work properly
- 32-bit projects created in older versions of VEGAS now open properly as 32-bit in VEGAS Pro 16
- Dragging a media generator to the Main Timeline Storyboard no longer causes a crash
- The render destination folder is now used for temporary file creation during the render process to avoid inadvertently filling up the user's C: drive
- Certain specific MOV files no longer cause a crash when stabilization is applied
- Switching through presets no longer disables stabilization in any case
- Event Pan/Crop animation now works properly on events that hold still images
- Color samplers in the Parameters and Custom tabs of the Color Corrector OFX plug-in are now correct and consistent
- Stabilization of video clips that contain zooms now works properly
- The Auto Zoom option now works more exactly to eliminate black borders
- Right Alt+z and Shift+Right Alt+z now properly give users of the Polish localized version ż and Ż
- Color Curve channel behavior has been improved so that changing the channel on one changes only that one and no others, and new curves are always added with the default settings instead of the settings from the previous curve worked with
- All files now retain Markers & Regions in Trimmer
- Timeline performance problems caused by automatically updating the Main Timeline storyboard during a timeline edit have been resolved