Technical Specifications
The Vegas Pro 13 collection provides integrated production environments designed for a new generation of creative professionals. Combining a familiar track-based timeline with hundreds of thoughtful innovations, Vegas Pro 13 offers a refreshingly modern, cost-effective approach to content creation. Supporting more formats and workflows than ever before, Vegas Pro 13 makes it easy to deliver your message and express your artistic vision.
Vegas Pro 13 Features
Vegas Editing: General Features
New! Vegas Pro Connect; mobile companion app
Vegas Editing: General Features
New! Vegas Pro Connect; mobile companion app
- New! Sony Wireless Adapter proxy-first workflow
- New! Multi-tool editing enhancements
- Advanced user interface with layout presets, flexible window docking, and extensive customization
- Simple drag-and-drop operations or traditional 3-point and 4-point editing paradigm
- Sync Link grouping
- Intuitive multicamera editing workflow
- JKL scrub
- Post-Edit ripple mode
- Timeline trimming with keyboard or mouse
- A/V synchronization detect and repair
- Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
- Multitrack video editing on unlimited tracks
- Supports multiple file formats and frame rates on the timeline with no transcoding required
- Interactive tutorials
Video Editing: Effects, Graphics, Text Generation and Color Correction
- New! Smart Render 4K XAVC files
- New! Integrated video FX from FXHOME
- New! Video Essentials VI from NewBlueFX
- New! Advanced project archiving
- Shape Masking Tools
- FX Masking
- Color Match
- LAB Adjust Plug-in and L*a*b* Color Space Histogram
- OpenFX Enhancements
- Layer Dimensionality Video FX and Compositor
- Credit Roll Generator Improvements
- Create custom Effect Chains of up to 32 separate video effects
- Apply Effect Chains at the Media, Event, Track, or Project level
- 3D track motion
- Advanced video compositing
- Keyframeable Bézier masks
- Keyframeable transitions, filters, and track motion
- 3-wheel primary and secondary color correction filters
- Waveform, Vectorscope, Parade, and Histogram monitors
- Import .PSD layers to separate Vegas Pro video tracks
- Image stabilization
- Enhanced Video Plug-in architecture based on OpenFX
- Titles & Text Titler
- Credit rolls and text animation
- High-precision, enhanced 32-bit floating point video levels mode for 10-bit and higher sources and render formats
Audio Editing Features
- New! CALM Act compliant loudness meters
- New! Audio dialog enhancement plug-in Nectar Elements from iZotope
- 64-bit Audio Plug-in support
- Preview Audio via Video Preview Device
- Project Interchange with Avid Pro Tools
- Audio recording, editing, and mixing on unlimited tracks
- 24-bit/192 kHz audio support
- Input busses and Real-time rendering
- Event level audio effect assignment
- VU Metering
- Audio Mixing default screen layout
- Audio track header output metering
- Create custom Effect Chains of up to 32 separate effects
- Apply Effect Chains at the Media, Event, Track, Bus, or Project level
- Envelope automation recording
- Multichannel audio from Trimmer Window
- Professional audio mixer console
- Broadcast Wave format multichannel support
- Gracenote MusicID™ CD album recognition
- VST plug-in effect support
- DirectX® plug-in effects automation
- Includes over 30 DirectX audio effects
- 5.1 surround mixing tools, with Film-style 5.1 surround panning
- On-the-fly punch-in recording
- Auto-input record monitoring
- 5.1 audio plug-in support for the master bus
- ASIO driver support
- Fader automation
- Real time record meters
- 32 assignable effects and 26 Master and Aux outputs
- Bus-to-bus routing
- Master, auxiliary, and effects bus tracks
- Red Book audio CD production
Workflow Features
- NEW! Proxy-first workflow with the Sony Wireless Adaptor and Sony Ci
- Project Interchange
- Smart Proxy Workflow
- Comprehensive S-log Workflow
- Render Progress and Completion Indicators
- Share Project Media Between Projects
- Stereoscopic 3D workflow
- Digital signage support, with portrait and landscape monitoring
- Project nesting
- Comprehensive closed captioning workflow
- Open multiple sessions of Vegas Pro on the same system, for the ultimate in multi-tasking
- Blu-ray Disc burning directly from the timeline
- Scripting extensions
- No-recompress rendering for many long GOP MPEG-2 formats
- XDCAM partial conform for FAM mode
- 4K support for frame sizes up to 4096x4096
- System-wide media management
- Multi monitor support
- Multi-threaded, multi-processor rendering support
Format I/O and Hardware Support
- Support for 4K XAVC and XAVC S files
- Panasonic P2 Support
- HDCAM SR (SStP) Mastering
- Blu-ray rendering support with MainConcept AVC plug-in
- Support for AVCHD 2.0 Standard
- Support Metadata Orientation Information for Still Image Formats
- GPU Acceleration for 'Titles & Text' Plug-in
- GPU Accelerated Performance
- Comprehensive XDCAM Optical Media support, including full proxy workflow
- Support for XDCAM essence markers
- Capture directly to XDCAM-compatible MXF files from supported SD/HD-SDI sources
- Genlock controls for synchronizing AJA video device output to a reference signal
- AVCHD timecode support
- NVIDIA 3D Vision Support
- Read and save DPX, OpenEXR, and Microsoft HD Photo formats
- Streaming Support for rendered AVC/MP4 files
- Export directly to PlayStation Portable devices
- AVC/AAC support
- MPEG-1, -2, and -4 support
- MPEG-2, Insert I-Frame at markers
- ATRAC 3 input and output
- Support for the Microsoft Image Mastering API (IMAPI) disc drivers
- AJA and Blackmagic Design hardware support
- External control surface support
- Application scripting for task automation
- Subtitle time/text export to DVD Architect Pro software
- Red Book audio CD production
- Exports chapter markers and subtitles to DVD Architect Pro 6.0 software
Supported file formats
Opens:
Opens:
AA3, AAF, AIF, ASF, AU, AVC, AVCHD, AVI, BMP, BWF, CDA, DIG, DLX, DPX, DV, EXR, FLAC, GIF, H.264, HDP, IVC, JPEG, M2T, M2TS, MVC, MOV, Sony MXF (XDCAM and HDCAM SR), MP3, MP4, M4A, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, MPO, OGG, OMA, Panasonic MXF (DVCPRO, AVC-Intra) PCA, PNG, PSD, R3D, SFA, SND, TIFF, TGA, VOX, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV, XAVC Intra MXF, XAVC S, XAVC Long-GOP
Saves:
AA3, AC3, AIF, ATRAC, AVC, AVCHD, AVI, DPX, EXR, FLAC, H.264, HDP, MOV, MP3, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, MP4, M2T, Sony MXF (XDCAM and HDCAM SR), MVC, OGG, Panasonic MXF (AVC-Intra), PCA, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV, XAVC Intra MXF, XAVC S, XAVC Long-GOP
DVD Encoding:
Video: NTSC 4:3, NTSC Widescreen, PAL 4:3, PAL Widescreen
Audio: AC-3 5.1 or stereo, PCM
Blu-Ray Encoding:
Video: MPEG-2 or AVC, 1080-60i, 1080-50i and 1080-24p
Audio: AC-3 5.1 or stereo, PCM
System Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 (64-bit)
- 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D; 8 cores recommended for 4K)
- 1 GB drive space for program installation
- SSD or high-speed multi-disk RAID for 4K media
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended; 16 GB recommended for 4K)
- OHCI-compatible IEEE-1394DV card (for DV and HDV capture and print-to-tape)
- USB 2.0 connection (for importing from AVCHD, XDCAM EX, NXCAM, or DVD camcorders)
- Windows-compatible sound card
- DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
- Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)
- Supported DVD-recordable drive (for DVD burning only)
- Supported BD-R/-RE drive (for Blu-ray Disc™ burning only)
- GPU-accelerated video processing and rendering requires an OpenCL™-supported NVIDIA®, AMD/ATI™, or Intel® GPU with 512MB memory; 1GB for 4K.
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
- Internet Connection (for Gracenote MusicID Service)
