VEGAS Pro 20 Build 139 (first public release) 10th August 2022

New Features (from the news post)

• File Drop for fast collaboration
• Automatic project collections
• Local project archives
• Speech to Text functionality, including automatic subtitle generation (official release - 365 subscribers only)
• White Balance controls in the Color Grading Panel
• Hue adjustment curves in the Color Grading Panel
• VST3 support
• VST 32-bit bridge
• Optical Flow mode for Warp Flow and Smart Split
• Real-time Optical Flow for the Slow Motion FX
• Normalize button for events
• Fade In/Out included in Paste Event Attributes
• Automatic region creation in Scene Detection
• Honeycomb and Color Planes presets for GL transitions
• [VEGAS Stream] ATEM switcher support
• [VEGAS Stream] Save to VEGAS Pro now organizes all assets in one folder
• [VEGAS Stream] Double click a graphic to open it in Title Designer

What's New in VEGAS Pro 20 (from the Readme file)

• White balance controls: The White Balance controls in the Color Grading panel help you correct colors caused by light temperatures that weren’t accounted for in the camera during shooting. Different types of lights have different color temperatures with sunlight of around 5,700 Kalvin being used as a “natural-light” baseline target. The Temperature slider enables you to adjust your color temperature to more closely match sunlight so that whites really look white instead of having a color cast from incorrectly set color temperature. The Tint slider enables you to lighten or darken your colors by adding a magenta or green tint. The Color picker enables you to sample a neutral color (white or gray) and have the software apply an automatic temperature adjustment for you.
• Hue vs. Hue color curve: This curve enables you to isolate a specific range of color (hues) in your video and change the hue of that range to a different hue. For example, if someone is wearing a blue shirt, you could isolate a range of blue hues and then adjust just that range of hues to a different hue value in order to change the color of the shirt without affecting any other colors in the video (although anything within that blue range will be affected, not just the shirt). This can be used for a drastic special effect such as this, or for more subtle color grading and correction that affects just a specific color range in your video.
• VEGAS Hub mobile app: Upload media files directly from your mobile device into your VEGAS Hub cloud storage.
• Automatic project collections: A Project collection organizes all of your project’s assets into a single view that you can easily access through the Hub Explorer window. These collections provide fast and easy access to all of your projects and their associated files. When you save your project, VEGAS Pro automatically creates a project collection, or updates your existing collection. You can then access the media within a project collection and use it in the same or a different project. You can upload your collections to your VEGAS Hub file storage to archive your projects and the associated media
• File Drop: The File Drop feature enables you to quickly gather media for your project from collaborators no matter where you or they are located. It makes transferring files to the project’s editor very easy. With File Drop, you can invite anyone to upload files to your VEGAS Hub storage space and from there quickly download those files to your local drives so you can use them in your projects.
• New VST 32-bit bridge (beta): The new improved VST 32-bit bridge allows legacy 32-bit VST plugins to be used within VEGAS (which requires 64-bit). This provides improved stability and performance of these legacy VST plug-ins.
• VST3 support (beta): VST3 is the latest version of the VST standard for supporting audio plug-ins such as reverbs, delays, equalizers, and so on inside digital audio software. VEGAS Pro can now support VST3 audio plug-ins along with the VST2 plug-in support that it has supported in previous versions. Support for VST3 ensures that VEGAS Pro can work with the most modern VST audio plug-ins available.
• New GL transitions: Two new transitions have been added: Honeycomb creates a honeycomb effect that transitions from one video to the next. Color Planes breaks the images into their RGB components, changes from the first image to the second, and then recombines the three color planes into one composite color image of the second video
• Transition Progress envelopes with animation: The Transition Progress envelope enables the user to control the rate of a transition over time and animate the progress so that it goes fast, slower, or even in reverse. This gives the user power to create custom transition behavior and includes Bèzier curve tools for complete control over the rate of change between animation points along the curve.
• Scene detection creates regions: The Scene Detection plug-in now features the ability to automatically create regions over the detected scenes of the clip inside a timeline clip event. These regions appear on the timeline and can be useful in a number of ways including as a mode of the Batch Render script to enable the user to quickly render individual files for each separate scene that has been detected.

VEGAS Pro 20 Update 1 (build 214) - 19th October 2022

Features

• Hue vs Saturation color curve
• Saturation vs Saturation color curve
• Color picker for color curves
• Zoomable preview
• Comment field for File Drop
• AI-generated Thumbnails for File Drop files

Fixes and Improvements

• Scrolling through presets for GL Transitions now works properly
• Black Bar Fill displays as expected on 5000 series AMD GPUs
• Fixed issues in Hue vs. Hue color curve for graphs jumping unexpectedly
• Sorting issues in the Hub Explorer fixed
• Fixed crash in File Explorer which occasionally occurs when RED media is in the current directory
• Various improvements and fixes to the color curves
• Fixed crash which could happen during peak building
• Fixed issue with Media FX occasionally causing preview and render errors
• Style Transfer presets now work properly when custom style mode is active
• Malformed 608 Closed Caption commands no longer cause a render crash
• Fixes and improvements to Paste Attributes functionality
• Fixed crash which will occur when rendering to ProRes and the "Allow source to adjust frame size" custom template option is used
• Change to help prevent a hang on shut down caused by some GPU drivers
• Fixed issue which caused an occasional hang during playback
• Picture-in-Picture effect now runs faster on Intel GPUs
• When importing multiple files at once, all the files are now selected after the import in the Project Media window
• Preference put in place to turn off and on 32-bit VST support
• EXR files now appear properly in the Explorer window and Import Media window
• Upgrade to VST engine
• Faster custom Style Transfer engine
• Fixed crash which may occur when the batch render script is executed.
• Fixed issues with render that are created was 360 media
• Mouse wheel adjustments made in the color grading panel are now always applied to the proper control
• Fixed crash on startup when the VST Plugin Scanner is run
• Add Folder to Timeline option in the Explorer window now works as expected
• Interface color options in the preferences dialog now have swatches that accurately reflect the color schemes
• Fix problem where BCC+ plugins would not work as expected
• New more accurate algorithm for applying color grading to 32 bit projects.
• Added missing ability to select specific FX in the Selectively Paste Attributes dialog
• Added a menu item to launch the hardware detection utility
• Improve the performance of the project collections in VEGAS Hub
• Fixed crash which may occur after adding an OGG file
• Fixed undo buffer issue when a project is closed
• Improved performance of AI plugins
• Fixed problem with hardware decoding of GoPro and DJI files

Known issues

• Some issues with the window layout may occur when launching this update for the first time. To resolve, you may need to reset your window layout.
• Users will not be prompted to update the Deep Learning Models. This must be done manually by downloading the installer for the Deep Learning Models from the VEGAS Creative Software website.

Deep Learning Models 20.2

• More performant Colorization model (for CPU and GPU)
• New Custom Style Transfer model (better results, faster execution, lower memory consumption)
• More performant and accurate Style Transfer Models (GPU only)
• More performant and smooth Upscaler models (GPU only)

VEGAS Pro 19 Update 6ish (build 648) - 20th December 2022

Bug Fixes

• Fixed HEVC decoding crash
• 360 renders are now properly formatted
• Fixed editing during project playback hang issue
• Improperly formatted Closed Caption files no longer crash VEGAS during render
• Fixed a peak-building crash

VEGAS Pro 20 Updated 2 (build 326) - 23rd January 2023

Features

• New AI engine
• VST3 support (full release)
• Hover Scrub bypass
• UX Improvements for File Drop workflow
• Flemish option in Text to Speech
• New Newsfeed Mechanism
• Higher quality audio output for Text-to-Speech
• Add or replace plug-ins in an FX chain
• Hue vs Luminance color curve
• Saturation vs Luminance
• Luminance vs Saturation
• Picture-in-Picture plugin enhancements
• Language support: Brazilian Portuguese
• Smart Mask (beta)
• Welcome screen
• Animation control over individual Bézier mask points
• Indicator of active Auto Ripple Edit mode

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a crash which may occur when reading HEVC files 
• Fixed an issue during the Paste Attributes function when overwriting current event settings 
• Audio effects window auto resizing now works as expected 
• The preference to disable auto resizing of audio effects now works as expected 
• Resolved an issue that could cause the application to lock up during motion tracking 
• Turning off the 32-bit VST support preference now properly clears out plugins 
• Auto Update for the Deep Learning Modules now works as expected 
• Progress bar and the time remaining fields in the Render Progress dialog now work correctly for all formats 
• SetResampleMode in VideoEvent object of the scripting API now works properly  
• Improved resolution when zooming in the Video Preview window 
• Resolved some zoom drawing issues in the Video Preview window 
• Grids and Safe Areas overlays now behave correctly while zooming the Video Preview 
• Fixed crash when using Motion Blur with some AMD GPUs 
• Fixed crash which could occur when using the Warp Flow effect 
• Eliminated unexpected results of using the scroll wheel over the Video Preview window when VEGAS is not the application currently in focus 
• File explorer no longer accidentally interprets a double click on a folder or file as a rename operation 
• Keyboard shortcuts no longer conflict between Smart Tags and Preview Zoom features 
• Resolved an issue where window layouts would not properly persist upon relaunching VEGAS with more than two or three application extensions  
• Fixed Parallelogram mode in the Picture-in-Picture effect  
• VEGAS now automatically detects Nahimic service and sets the WPF GPU preference to avoid UI corruption 
• Render template for HEIC image sequence now properly named 
• Fixed issue where the auto-update feature was not able to see some GPUs 
• Fixed problem where the Color Grading panel may open at an effect level labeled “None” 
• Motion Tracking panel no longer crashes on an empty event 
• Fixed Driver Update utility so that it accurately works for customers using EnglishThe combination of a Bézier point and linear point no longer creates an invalid curve shape on the FX animation timeline 
• Files rendered as ProRes now properly report as VBR 
• VEGAS no longer crashes when rendering using the MainConcept MPEG-1 VCD PAL template with no video frames present. 
• Duplicate events are no longer created when dragging media to the timeline from the details view of the Project Media window 
• Fixed a crash which may occur when generating thumbnails for WMV media 
• Resolved an issue that could cause problems when you apply the Slow Motion plugin or the Warp Flow transition 
• Updated many message boxes to reflect the UI color scheme 
• Upscale effect now is place automatically before Pan/Crop in the FX chain 
• The Color Grading plugin no longer is accidentally added to events while the user is not in color grading mode 
• The Color Grading panel is no longer active when attached to the track level and no track is selected 
• The Render Progress dialog now properly reports the free disk space value when doing a pre-render 
• MXF renders properly embed the writing application in the metadata for the media

Known issues

• The Aerial and Drone category in VEGAS Content provides no results 

Deep Learning Models 20.4

• Switch to ONNX format
• 2 more style transfer models (Munch - Scream, Simpsons)
• Mask generation model

VEGAS Pro 20 Update 3 (build 370) - 22nd March 2023

Fixes:

• Animate button is no longer hidden for several plugins
• Fixed issue in DeFlicker plugin which causes a crash while editing an event when the effect is before Pan/Crop in the effects chain
• Fixed crash which may occur when reading AVC media
• Fixed crash which may occur when rendering AVC media
• Fixed crash which may occur when opening a layout
• Fixed race condition which may cause a hang on startup.
• Project will now be set properly all the time when user requests to match media settings

VEGAS Pro 20 Update 4 (build 402) - 2nd May 2023

New Features:  

• Multiple Smart Masks 
• Smart Mask generated shape improvements 
• Transfer Text properties 
• Window docking improvements 
• Select a device for RAW processing 
• RAW processing with CUDA 
• Improvements to the Welcome screen 
• New Sharp Model for Upscale plugin 
• Support for Mocha shape data 

Bug Fixes: 

• Fixed incorrect interpretation of some parameters for certain Boris effects 
• Aspect ratio handling in the Picture-in-Picture plugin now works as expected 
• Swap Video Files functionality is now available in the Brazilian Portuguese version of VEGAS Pro 
• Fixed a code issue which may cause a crash when loading the still image plug-in 
• Closing the Bezier Mask window now properly exits edit mode 
• Smart Mask is now properly listed as an AI effect 
• The Record Time indicator in the status bar now properly displays very large values 
• A Display Preference now enables the user to see CPU, Memory, and Disk usage values during playback 
• The Welcome screen’s Open Existing Project button now remembers the location of the previous project opened 
• Upscale OFX now works properly the first time is it added to an event from the Plug-in Chooser 
• Fixed glitches in the Picture-in-Picture plugin when scaling 
• Fixed focus issues for controls in the Color Grading panel 
• Timeline size is properly set when opening a project 
• Keyframes are no longer accidentally created 
• Fixed an undo buffer error when using Smart Mask and Bezier Mask 
• When adding media to timeline via Windows Explorer, VEGAS will now appropriately match the media and project settings 
• Style Transfer no longer fails on some NVidia GPUs 
• Can now deselect one or more items in the Explorer window after a Select All command through Ctrl+A 
• The Tags box in the Project Media window now properly displays text 
• Fixed a crash which may occur when removing Track FX 
• Improved modeling for Colorization FX 
• Selectively Past Attributes no longer incorrectly copies Crop FX parameters 
• Fixed an issue which could cause a crash on startup 
• Properly read spherical metadata in files which contain it 
• Hub Explorer buttons remain visible even when collections have long names 
• Fixed a problem which caused some VST plugins to hang or crash the application 

VEGAS Pro 20 build 403 - 4th May 2023

Bug Fixes:

• [Moderator Note: Fixed a bug that prevented VEGAS Pro from starting]

VEGAS Pro 19 build 651 - 4th May 2023

Bug Fixes:

• [Moderator Note: Fixed a bug that prevented VEGAS Pro from starting]

VEGAS Pro 20 build 411 - 19th June 2023

Bug Fixes:

• Resonant Filter plugin will no longer cause a hang or crash 
• VST plugins will no longer create excessive undo events 
• General VST engine stability improvements 
• Hang detection dialogs will no longer appear at improper times 
• Can now drag multiple files from the Explorer window 
• Fixed crashes which may occur when using some AI plugins 
• Proper icons appear in the Video Effects editor 
• Fixed a crash which may occur when decoding HEVC files 
• Fixed crashes which may occur when decoding AVC files 
• Improve Drag and Drop behavior in the Project Media window 

VEGAS Pro 21 Build 108 - 14th August 2023

New Feature list: (from news post)

• New Feature list:
• VEGAS Z-Depth OFX plug-in and compositor 
• Adjustment events 
• Offset and Wrap OFX plug-in 
• Smart Masking 
• Mocha VEGAS 
• Cloud-based text to speech (365 only)
• Quick Upload (365 only)
• Online Help 
• New GL Transitions 
• Improved Button icons 
• VEGAS Content improvements (365 only)
• VEGAS Image 5 (VEGAS Pro Post only)

VEGAS Effects 5 (VEGAS Pro Post only) New Feature list: (from news post)

• Proxy down sampling is now factored into viewer down sampling.
• Text can now include a solid color background behind it.
• Hardware decoding and encoding on Intel Iris Xe Max is now disabled due to driver issues
• VEGAS Effects 5 now integrates with VEGAS Pro 21
• You can now triple-click on text to select an entire line.
• New presets in the Vector Stroke effect make use of improvements to the effect.
• New Start Shapes and End shapes are available in the Vector Stroke effect.
• New Taper Controls in the Vector Stroke effect allow the stroke to be tapered along the length of the path.
• An improved color picker has been implemented.

Known Issues: (from news post)

• The "Login" button on the Text-to-Speech page is not functional when the VEGAS Hub window is open. The toolbar Hub Login button should be used instead. 
• Some systems may exhibit a very long launch time upon opening VEGAS Pro 21 after installing the Deep Learning Models.

VEGAS Pro 21 Build 187 - 8th November 2023

Known issues: 

• The Auto-update may stall if the update is triggered within VEGAS while the Welcome Screen is still open. If this occurs, you can cancel the installer and try the auto update again on a subsequent launch of VEGAS Pro and close the Welcome Screen before starting the update, or you may download the update via a direct link and install it manually.  
• Blue and Red colors may be swapped in VEGAS Effects and HitFilm when using recent AMD Adrenalin drivers. It is recommended to revert the driver to version 23.7.2 to avoid this problem. 

New Features:  

• AV1 decoding 
• AV1 rendering 
• New button to toggle the behavior of the spacebar during playback 
• Add scripting access for Adjustment Events 
• GPU support in the Offset and Wrap plugin 
• Improve Smart Mask point generation to be more efficient 
• Mocha Pro integration, matching Mocha VEGAS behavior 

Fixes and Improvements:

• Automatically close the FX window when the last plugin is removed from the chain 
• Starting VEGAS from a file that was removed from VEGAS Content will no longer cause a crash 
• Updates and improvements for the MXHEVC Plugin 
• Improvements for the update service 
• Improvements to the Hub login for Text-to-Speech 
• The navigation buttons in the Explorer window now work properly 
• Added an email address field in the crash dialog 
• Fixed a crash which may occur in the update service when VEGAS is opened and closed repeatedly 
• Fixed sizing issues in the UI for some VST plugins 
• Explorer window no longer glitches with the first media file selected 
• Improvements to the Offset and Wrap plugin 
• Improvements to the Mocha VEGAS exchange while creating Bézier masks 
• Fixed crash which may occur when trying to add unsupported media after the hardware detection process fails 
• Improvements to the OFX Interacts for third party plugins 
• Fixed problem where OFX Interacts did not show up when Titles and Text is reopened 
• Fixed problem in 2D parameters for OFX plugins where full range is not properly used 
• Fixed Undo/Redo history problems with Mocha VEGAS 
• Fixed a crash which may occur when using Shot Detection 
• Fixed a crash which occurred when scrolling the horizontal or vertical scrollbars in some displays 
• Custom templates in the ATRAC renderer now work as expected 
• Added proper support for different pixel configurations in OFX plugins 
• Alpha channel is now better handled in the Z-Depth plugin 
• AC-3 files now will always import into VEGAS at their proper length 
• Fixed a crash which may occur when reading some specific Go-Pro files 
• Improve balance of performance and memory usage for some Intel CPU and GPU decoders 
• Add support for UNIX style path names in the script API 
• Fixed problem with proper color output from the REZup FX when it is placed before Pan/Crop in the plugin chain 
• Now properly support all media with MPEG audio 
• Improved performance and responsiveness of VST plugins when editing envelopes 
• Resizable VST plugins now fill the entire FX window when it is being resized 
• Fixed long delay on startup which may occur on some systems 
• Fixed crash which may occur when building an audio FX chain 
• Fixed crash which could occur when initializing the VEGAS Hub window 
• Fixed crash that may occur in the plugin windows when rendering preview thumbnails for an effect 
• Support for MKV files 
• Fixed synchronization error which may occur when using some eFX plugins 
• ProRes renders no longer have one of row and column of missing pixels 
• Removed some AC3 templates that have not been supported for several years 
• Fixed some display issues in the Update dialog when it opens on some High DPI monitors 
• Preset label is now properly placed in High DPI environments 
• UI improvements in the Mixing Console to display better in High DPI environments 
• Fixed incorrect aspect ratio with some rendered ProRes files 
• Automatically set Alpha Channel settings properly when an alpha channel is detected for PNG files 
• Fixed the Min/Max range for the Beauty Box OFX plugin 
• Fixed problem where blue mask outlines disappear when performing an Undo after a Create Mask operation 
• Better handling of alpha background by Adjustment Events 
• Improved Keyframe interpolation for the Z-Depth plugin 
• Corrected some improper color conversion for some media 
• Track headers for audio tracks now properly show "In" and "Out" in High DPI environments 
• Improved Slow Motion OFX plugin 
• Fixed potential freeze or crash in the MP3 plugin 
• Fixed crash which may occur when using the color corrector plugin 
• Fixed display problem with OFX plugins that contain a 2D position parameter 
• Changed the Preview Transport toolbar to include the Loop Playback button by default 
• Editing with the Credit Roll plugin will no longer cause a hang 
• Fixed issues with aspect ratio handling in the HEVC reader 
• Undo in Smart Mask will no longer cause the application to hang 
• Improvements for to the MXF reader to support a larger variety of files of this format 
• Fixed resource leak related to UI assets 
• Fixed crash which may occur for project file names which are very long 
• Fixed High DPI display issues in the Audio FX window 
• Auto Contrast function in the Color Grading panel no longer causes a crash 
• Fixed UI problems in the VST Preferences window in localized versions 
• Improved handling of MPEG media 
• Fix crash which occurred when using Color Match plugin 
• Now properly read Panasonic PX 270 camera MXF files 
• Improved hardware selection for decoding 
• Fix performance degradation associated with using the Color Grading Panel 
• Improved download experience for VEGAS Content 
• Wormhole VST now works properly in VEGAS 
• Fixed crash caused by saving pre-rendered files to an invalid path 
• Fixed a hang issue with the Nectar 3 Elements plugin 
• Fixed Glitch with the Temperature slider in the White Balance controls on the Color Grading Panel 
• Driver update utility now properly sees NVidia RTX 4000 series cards 
• The Adjustment Event context menu now contains only options which are actually available for these type of events 
• Fixed problem which causes Red and Blue to be swapped on AMD GPUs using recent drivers 
• Fixed problem where some events will have a loud audio error in the final few frames 

Moderator Addition:

• "Custom" interfaces removed from the Color Corrector and Color Corrector (Secondary) effects.

VEGAS Pro 21 Build 208 - 12th December 2023

Known issues: 

• Blue and Red colors may be swapped in VEGAS Effects and HitFilm when using recent AMD Adrenalin drivers. It is recommended to revert the driver to version 23.7.2 to avoid this problem. 

Fixes and Improvements:

• Fixed a buffer error that occurred when performing an Undo operation on a VST plugin applied at the track level
• Windows Taskbar again properly shows progress of a render task
• Performing an undo or redo operation with Audio FX now properly updates the UI
• The Preferences now properly display VST plugs-ins
• Fixed a black-frames issue that affected some third-party OFX plugins
• Splash screen properly shows progress
• Fixed temporal filtering issues in the Z-Depth plug-in
• The VEGAS message box now sizes properly depending on the length of the text that is being displayed.
• The Motion Tracking panel now properly supports data from Mocha Pro
• Removed an erroneous menu option in the Tools | Extensions menu
• Fixed a bug that prevented the user from switching to Audio Track FX when either the Audio Event FX or Master FX window was open
• Text on 3rd party Video Plugins is no longer cut off
• Fixed issue where the Red and Blue colors may be swapped while using Style Transfer
• Fixed crash which may occur when using the Slow Motion plugin
• Fixed crash which may occur when clicking the toolbar button in the FX editor keyframe pane
• Fixed a crash which may occur on shut down if the user has the system statistics on
• Fixed problem where an Adjustment Event may not display a full frame when using some third-party Video FX
• Updated support for Meteor Lake CPUs in some CPU-based decoders
• Online help pages for most Video plugs have been updated and posted
• Audio FX window closes as it should when you delete the event or track the effect is on
• Improved Text-to-Speech connection to the hub.
• Putting an Adjustment Event on the timeline no longer makes Motion Tracking crash
• Undo or Redo of a bypass of an Audio FX now properly refreshes the UI
• Fixed incorrect texture writing for YUV-RGB conversion
• Turn on OpenCL color conversion paths for NVidia GPUs
• Fixed translations in the NewsFeed window
• The proper hardware device is now selected when using some AI plugins
• Fixed a crash which can occurs when using the Smart Mask plugin
• Fixed crash which may occur when initializing the Hub window
• The FX button in the Mixing Console now always works as expected