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The Fun, Easy Way to Create Digital Family Memories
Creating and sharing stunning movies and slide shows doesn't have to be complicated. Vegas Movie Studio+DVD video editing and DVD creation software eliminates the guesswork so you can jump straight to the fun part — bringing your digital video and pictures to life! With the Show Me How tutorials to guide you, you'll be adding titles, transitions, effects, and music to your project within minutes of loading the software.
From camera to screen in 3 easy steps
1. Capture: It's easy to transfer videos and digital photos to your computer. Vegas Movie Studio+DVD quickly imports and organizes your digital media so you can start creating faster.
2. Edit: Use simple actions such as drag-and-drop to create movies and slideshows with effects, transitions, and music. Make changes on-the-fly and see the results instantly.
3. Share: Powerful tools let you burn your movie to DVD, VCD, CD, and export to other formats like QuickTime® and Windows® Media®. Share your creations with friends and family!
Make Your Own Movies, Slide Shows, Presentations, and More
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software makes video editing easy and fun. Best of all, Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software is a real-time nondestructive video editor. No matter what changes you make to your video and photos in the software, your original files are never affected! Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software gives you the freedom to experiment and have fun with video editing, without worrying about making a mistake.
Use Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software to:
- Add special effects, transitions, titles, and music to your home movies for Hollywood-style results
- Zoom, rotate, and pan across photos to animate still images in your movies
- Make your own DVDs with multiple motion menus and custom navigation
- Commemorate special events such as weddings and anniversaries
- Create exciting, professional-looking business presentations
Learn as You Go with Amazing Tutorials
Sony Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These helpers are built right into the software — just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on over 30 topics.
Integrated CD and DVD creation
Use the included DVD Architect™ software to make your own professional-looking DVDs that are fun to share with others. Simple layout tools let you add multiple linked menus, motion menus, and motion buttons to your DVDs — just like the ones produced in Hollywood. Use the included themed DVD templates or customize your own.
More Ways to Share
Sharing your video creations with the world has never been easier. In addition to integrated DVD and CD creation, you can also export your movies to other popular formats including QuickTime® and Windows Media®. If you have an Internet connection, click the Publish button to upload your movie to ACIDplanet.com — the premier community for online sharing of original music and video.
Powerful Audio Tools
A great movie should sound as good as it looks, which is why Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software includes studio-quality tools for soundtrack creation and audio restoration.
- Record voiceovers and narrate your video for a one-of-a-kind personal touch
- Import your own music directly from CDs or MP3s
- Enhance your movies by selecting from the dozens of included music beds and 1,001 sound effects
- Remove clicks, pops, and other unwanted noise from your video footage
* 5.1 channel audio downmixed to stereo audio. VR Mode not supported.
Built on the Professional Power of Vegas software
Vegas® software is a state-of-the-art professional video editing application — prized by industry pros worldwide for its power, reliability, and ease of use. Built on the same technology, Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software puts the editing power of the pros on your home computer. It's the perfect entry-level tool for video editing and DVD creation on a PC.
Memorable Movies in Minutes
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software uses simple drag-and-drop editing and basic commands such as Cut, Copy, and Paste to create professional-looking movies on your PC. With just a click or two of your mouse, you can:
- Personalize your movies with text animations, title rolls, and scrolling credits
- Play video in slow or fast motion, or even reverse video in real time
- Apply more advanced video effects including chroma key "green screen" and picture in picture
Multitrack Video and Audio Editing
With 4 tracks for video and 4 tracks for audio, Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software provides a powerful editing environment.
Ken Burns Effect
Named for the American documentary filmmaker who pioneered the technique, the Ken Burns Effect gives life to still images in your movies by slowly zooming-in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software let you achieve effects like this with easy-to-use keyframeable Pan and Crop tools. Easily zoom in or out, pan and scan, and rotate pictures in any direction to create dynamic slide shows and movies with a professional feel.
Easy Import from DV/DVD Camcorders
Quickly transfer digital photos and video from DV and DVD camcorders* to your computer. Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software expertly organizes everything so you can search, sort, and view your media.
Keyframeable Real-Time Effects with Preview
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software includes over 290 video effects and more than 185 2D and 3D video transitions to enhance your movies. All of the video effects are keyframeable: you can set the specific video frame where an effect begins and the frame where it stops working. You can even specify the level of effect for every frame in between!
To see how your effects and transitions in action, Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software lets you preview effects and transitions in real time at full resolution on your computer monitor or on a secondary monitor.
Unique Video Restoration Tools
Even if your images and videos aren't perfect, you can use the Vegas Movie Studio+DVD tools to correct common problems.
- Restore dull, washed-out footage
- Apply brightness and contrast
- Sharpen fuzzy images
- Balance colors
- Remove red-eye from photos
Flash Format Import
Import Flash™ (.swf) files** directly into Vegas Movie Studio software. The vector-based .swf files can be scaled to any project size without loss of resolution. Create complex text animations and other effects for projects using any editing tool that supports .swf export.
* 5.1 channel audio downmixed to stereo audio. VR Mode not supported.
** ActionScripting, motion video and audio not supported.
Easy DVD Creation
- Professional-looking DVDs made easy
- Create movies, slide shows, or music compilations on DVD
- Add multiple motion menus, buttons, and links
- Includes over 25 themed DVD templates
- Produce DVDs in fullscreen (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) format
Vegas® Movie Studio™+DVD software comes with DVD Architect™ Studio software so you can easily create and burn professional-looking DVDs. You'll be creating picture slide shows, single-movie DVDs, music compilations, and menu-based DVDs on your computer in no time!
DVD Architect Studio software is incredibly easy to use. Many of the editing operations, commands, and shortcut keys are common to other popular software applications, as well as other Sony Media Software applications. DVD Architect Studio software includes the helpful Show Me How interactive tutorials, and over 25 themed DVD menu templates to get you started.
You'll have fun producing DVDs with multiple menus, motion buttons and backgrounds, menu to menu links, and custom navigation. You can even add your own behind-the-scenes features, director's cuts, outtakes, bloopers, and more.
Easy DVD Preview
The Preview window allows you to preview your DVD project on a simulated television screen with a virtual remote control. Use the buttons on the remote control to navigate and play your project.
Extensive Video and Audio Support
DVD Architect Studio software supports today's popular video and audio formats such as .avi, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2, so you can make DVDs that will play on almost any DVD player or DVD-capable computer.
Amazing Tutorials
Show Me How tutorials help you spend less time learning and more time creating! Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These helpers are built right into the software — just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on over 30 topics. Show Me How tutorials help you spend less time learning and more time creating!
Studio-Quality Audio Tools
Powerful audio tools let you create movies that sound as good as they look. Here are some examples of what you can do with audio in Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software:
- Create a custom music soundtrack
- Remove unwanted noise from video footage
- Use track envelopes to control audio volume and panning
- Record and edit live audio
- Synchronize audio with video
Add Music and Sound Effects
Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software includes professional-quality music beds that you can use to score your video, plus 1,001 sound effects to enhance your movies. You can also import your own music directly from CDs or MP3 audio files.
Easy Live Recording
You can use Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software to record your own audio such as voiceovers, music, and narration to include in your project. Vegas Movie Studio has four audio tracks, any of which can be used to record. You can also create different takes that you can select to include in your project.
Restore Audio
The Audio Restoration plug-in lets you remove clicks, pops, and other noise from your music and audio clips to ensure the highest fidelity soundtrack for your video project.
Track Envelopes
Envelopes are a way to control a parameter, such as volume, over time. With Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software you can use envelopes to control audio volume and panning.
Native VST Effect and DirectX® Audio Plug-In Support
You can use effects to manipulate the audio components of your project. Vegas Movie Studio software supports additional DirectX and VST effects from a variety of vendors. Audio effects can be applied to all events on a track or as assignable effects.
ACID loop support
For easy video scoring and audio mixing, Vegas Movie Studio software now has ACID® loop support. ACID loops are royalty-free music samples that contain special metadata which allows them to automatically match the existing project tempo and key. The Sony® Sound Series™ Loops & Samples collection contains over 125 CDs worth of ACID loops in nearly every music style and genre imaginable.
Vegas Movie Studio Software Features
- DVD Architect Studio 3 software for easy DVD authoring. Includes DVD menu templates including weddings, birthdays, sports and other special events. DVD Architect software supports end actions, multiple motion menus, buttons and links, and also supports dual-layer DVD drives.
- Import Media From DVD Camcorders
With Vegas Movie Studio 6 you can import movies from DVD Handycams* and camcorders.
- Real-Time Audio and Video Event Reverse
Users can now reverse audio and video events in real-time, no rendering required.
- Audio/Video Synchronization Detect and Repair
When audio and video events are not aligned, Vegas Movie Studio 6 software will highlight the events in the timeline so you can see synchronization problems at a glance.
- Trimmer window for easier layout and production
Trimmer editing lets you select a specific portion of a video or audio clip and arrange it on the timeline.
- VST Effect and DirectX Audio Plug-In Support
Vegas Movie Studio 6 software natively supports VST effects and DirectX audio effects, opening up the number of effects you can apply to audio.
- ASIO Driver Support
Low-latency ASIO™ driver support provides faster results when mixing, and access to support of additional soundcards.
- Tape-Style Audio Scrubbing
Vegas Movie Studio 6 software now includes a tape-style scrubber above the timeline that mimics dragging an analog tape past the playhead for quickly finding sections.
- Edit Source Project (save path of original project in rendered media)
When you save a project path in a rendered Vegas Movie Studio 6 file, you can easily return to the source project if you want to resume editing.
- External DV Monitor Support
Connect your DV equipped camcorder or converter to your computer via IEEE-1394/iLINK Connector, and preview your Vegas Movie Studio timeline on the camcorder, or on a TV monitor.
- Multiprocessor Support
Vegas Movie Studio 6 software takes advantage of cutting-edge parallel processing architectures, significantly reducing complex project-render times on multiprocessor, HT, and multicore systems.
Multimedia Creation Made Easy
- ACID loop support
- External DV monitor support
- Multiprocessor support
- Easy drag-and-drop editing
- More than 30 interactive tutorials
- Easy-to-use audio recording, editing and processing tools
- Unlimited number of undos/redos
- Automatic crossfades between events
Capture and Import
- Import media from Sony® DVD Handycam® camcorders
- Batch capture and automatic DV scene detection
- PC connection via FireWire®, i.LINK™ connector or IEEE-1394 devices**
- Import pictures in BMP, GIF, JPG, and PSD formats
- Import AVI, DV, SWF, and MPEG 1 & MPEG 2 files
- Import audio files in WAV, MP3, AIF, CD Audio and PCA formats
- Extract audio from CDs
Transitions and Effects
- More than 185 customizable 2D and 3D transitions
- Nearly 300 customizable video special effects
- Add text animation, titles and scrolling credits
- Red-eye removal tool
- "Green screen" chroma key effects
- Pan and crop tool to animate still images
- Video and audio time stretching
Powerful Editing Tools
- Additional video and audio tracks
- Real-time audio and video event reverse
- Audio/video synchronization detect and repair
- DirectX audio plug-in support
- VST audio effect support
- ASIO™ driver support
- Tape-style audio scrubbing
- Real-time preview of edits, effects, and transitions
- Trimmer tool
- Audio restoration tools
- Track level audio FX and envelopes
Export and Sharing
- VideoCD and Multimedia CD burning
- Export video projects in multiple formats for the Web
- One-click publishing to ACIDplanet.com***
DVD Architect Studio Software Features
General
- Built-in interactive "Show Me How" tutorials
- End actions for menus and media
- Project overview window
- Customizable user interface
- DVD theme export
- Project playlists
- Smart reprepare
- DVD design and authoring
- Menu-based and single movie DVD creation
- Picture slide shows and music compilations
- Easy to use drag-and drop interface
- Unlimited number of undo/redo
- Media Explorer
- Adjustable Project and file optimization Settings
- Multi-monitor support
- Multi-processor support
- Fully customizable toolbars
- Get Media from the web
- DVD Editing and Layout
- Still and motion menu creation
- Support for multiple video titles
- Multiple menus with up to 36 buttons per menu
- Menu object editing, alignment, and sizing tools
- Text editing and shadow effects
- Object snapping
- Slide image rotation
- Add, edit, and move chapter points
- Title and Action safe grid area
- Customizable Themes
- Menu looping
Video
- Flash (.swf) format import
- Fit to disc compression
- DVD movie creation
- Picture slide shows
- NTSC and PAL in standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) formats
- Imports AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOV, WMV, and a variety of still image formats
Audio
- Music compilations
- Attach audio files to menus
- Media file previewing
- Import WAV, MP3, WMA, PCA, AIF, MPEG audio
Testing and Burning
- Dual-layer drive support
- Real-time project previewing with virtual DVD remote control or to external monitor
- DVD project verification and preparation
- Supports a wide variety of DVD burners
* 5.1 channel audio downmixed to stereo audio. VR Mode not supported.
** i.LINK is a trademark of Sony Electronics, used only to designate that a product contains an IEEE 1394 connector. All products with an IEEE connector may not communicate with each other.
*** One-click publishing requires an Internet connection from your PC to the Web.
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Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
800 MHz processor
200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
256 MB RAM
OHCI compatible i.LINK® connector*/IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape)
Windows-compatible sound card
CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
Supported DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW/+R DL drive (for DVD burning only)
Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on CD-ROM)
Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)
Please Note: Some features may require product registration.
*i.LINK is a trademark of Sony Electronics, used only to designate that a product contains an IEEE 1394 connector. All products with an IEEE connector may not communicate with each other.
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