The fun, easy way to create and share your own movies!
Say farewell to boring home movies and vacation slideshows. With Vegas Movie Studio home video editing and DVD authoring software you can create captivating videos that beg to be watched again and again. Digital video editing tools add professional pizzazz with transitions, titles, and special effects including green screen. Quickly format movies for online sharing sites or author your own DVDs. The exclusive Show Me How tutorials help you get started fast. Just follow along with the step-by-step instructions and learn as you go.
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From Camera to Screen in 3 Easy Steps
1. Sony video editing programs offer easy capture and transfer of digital video.
2. Movie Studio features digital video editing tools that are easy to use.
3. Movie Studio software allows for easy dvd authoring.
Easy Capture
It's easy to transfer videos and digital photos to your computer. Vegas Movie Studio software quickly imports and organizes your digital media so you can get started fast.
Easy Edit
Simply drag and drop to create movies and slideshows with effects, transitions, and music. Make changes at any time and see the results instantly
Easy Share
Powerful tools let you author professional-looking DVDs. You can also export to popular formats or upload movies directly to YouTube™ and ACIDplanet.com.
Make Your Own Movies, Slideshows, Presentations, and More
Vegas Movie Studio software makes video editing easy and fun. Best of all, Vegas Movie Studio 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 software gives you the freedom to experiment and have fun with video editing, without worrying about making a mistake.
Use Vegas Movie Studio 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
Video Editing
Upload movies to YouTube
Publish Directly to YouTubeCreating videos for YouTube is easy and fun with Vegas Movie Studio software. Its full set of tools for editing, video restoration, and soundtrack creation will help you create compelling videos that get noticed. Click the "publish to YouTube" button to instantly upload your video.
Simple DVD Creation
DVD Architect™ Studio software is included so you can create and burn professional-looking DVDs. You'll have fun producing DVDs with custom menus, buttons, backgrounds, and navigation. 44 easy-to-use DVD themes are included to get you started.
Helpful Project Wizards
Vegas Movie Studio 9 software has two great wizards to help you get started quickly. The Project wizard provides an efficient workflow for video editing and helps ensure that projects are set up correctly. The Make Movie wizard eliminates the guesswork for delivery and provides optimized final files in just a few clicks — whether you want to publish your movie to YouTube or another website, burn it to a DVD, or send it as an email attachment.
Learn as You Go with Easy Tutorials
The Show Me How tutorials guide you through the entire creative process. Whenever you need help, just click the Show Me How button and choose your tutorial topic. Helpful text dialogue boxes, pointers, and guides will actually show you what to do and where to click. Show Me How tutorials
The Perfect Soundtrack
Vegas Movie Studio software includes the Cinescore Studio plug-in for easily creating customized music soundtracks in just minutes. Choose from royalty-free Cinescore themes that can be modified to fit your movie's length and mood. Additional Cinescore theme packs are also available.
Professional Power
Built on Vegas software technology used in motion picture and recording studios worldwide, Vegas Movie Studio software puts the power of the pros on your desktop.
Memorable Movies in Minutes
Vegas Movie Studio 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
Add Movie Magic
Enhance your video with effects, titles, and filters. Play video in slow, fast, or even reverse motion. Apply the look of old film or experiment with fun green screen effects. Nearly 300 customizable effects and over 185 transitions provide endless creative options.
Shoot for Perfection
Easily restore dull, washed-out footage, apply brightness and contrast, sharpen images, balance colors, and remove red-eye from photos. Vegas Movie Studio software includes sophisticated image restoration tools for a variety of tasks.
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 software let you achieve effects like this with easy-to-use Pan and Crop tools. Easily zoom in or out, pan and scan, and rotate pictures in any direction to create dynamic slideshows 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 software expertly organizes everything so you can search, sort, and view your media.
Keyframeable Real-time Effects with Preview
Vegas Movie Studio 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 software lets you preview effects and transitions in real time at full resolution on your computer monitor or on a secondary monitor.
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.
** ActionScripting, motion video, and audio not supported.
Easy DVD Creation
- Professional-looking DVDs made easy
- Create movies, slideshows, or music compilations on DVD
- Add multiple motion menus, buttons, and links
- Includes 44 DVD themes
- Produce DVDs in fullscreen (4:3) or widescreen (16:9) format
Vegas Movie Studio 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 Creative Software applications.
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.
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 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 software includes the Cinescore Studio plug-in for easily creating customized music soundtracks in just minutes. Choose from royalty-free Cinescore themes that can be modified to fit your movie's length and mood. You can also import your own music directly from CDs or MP3 audio files.
Easy Live Recording
You can use Vegas Movie Studio 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 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 includes 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 Sound Series: Loops & Samples collection contains over 100 libraries of ACID loops in nearly every music style and genre imaginable.
Show Me How Tutorials
Well beyond the booklets and static tutorials found in other applications, Show Me How tutorials are built right into the software . Simply choose a topic and follow along as helpful pointers and guides actually show you what to do.
Vegas Movie Studio 9 Features
General Features
- Streamlined Project and Make Movie wizards
- Fullscreen preview to a primary or secondary display
- Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline
- Display of media marker names in events
- Color-coded visual snap indicator and the ability to snap to event edges on other tracks.
- Multitrack video and audio editing
- Show Me How interactive tutorials
- Real-time editing of parameters during playback
- Support for any aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9, etc)
- Supports multiple file formats and frame rates
- Explorer view
- Project media bins
- Track markers and regions
- Unlimited undo/redo
- External DV monitor supportMultiprocessor support
- Automatic crossfades between events
Video Features
- Drag-and-drop video editing
- Fullscreen preview to a secondary Windows display
- Real-time playback of effects, processes and transitions to external monitor
- Color correction tools
- MPEG-1&2 support
- Superior frame rate conversions
- Credit rolls and text animation
- External monitor preview
- Ripple editing across tracks
Audio Features
- Cinescore Studio plug-in for music soundtrack creation
- Multithreaded audio engine maximizes performance
- 16-bit, 44.1 kHz song quality for exceptional performance
- Volume and pan envelopes
- Audio time stretching
- Event normalization
- CD audio extraction
- Audio/video synchronization detect and repair
- DirectX audio plug-in support
- VST audio effect support
- ASIO™ drive support
- Tape-style audio scrubbing
- Audio restoration tools
- Track-level audio FX and envelopes
- ACID loop support
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
Capture and Import
- Import and export support for FLAC files
- Import support for LPEC files
- Import support for MJPEG-encoded AVI files
- Gracenote® MusicID™ CD album recognition
- Import and export ATRAC3™, ATRAC3plus™, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless™ files
- 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
Export and Hardware Features
- Integrated upload to YouTube™
- Insert I-frames at marker positions when rendering MPEG-2 (works in conjunction with I-frame viewer in DVD Architect Studio 4.5 software)
- VideoCD and Multimedia CD burning
- Export video projects in multiple formats for the web
- One-click publishing to ACIDplanet.com***
DVD Architect Studio 4.5 Features
General Features
- DVD design and authoring
- Menu-based and single movie DVD creation
- Photo slideshows and music compilations
- Easy to use drag-and drop interface
- Show Me How interactive tutorials
- End actions for menus and media
- Project overview window
- DVD theme export
- Project playlists
- Smart re-prepare
- Unlimited number of undo/redo
- Media Explorer
- Adjustable project and file optimization settings
- Multi-monitor support
- Multi-processor support
- Fully customizable toolbars
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 DVD themes
- Menu looping
Video
- Flash (.swf) format import
- Fit-to-disc compression
- DVD movie creation
- Picture slideshows
- 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
Supported Formats
Import: AIFF, ATRAC, AVI, BMP, CDA, FLAC GIF, JPG, LPEC, MMV, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, OGG, PCA, QuickTime®, SFA, SWF, TGA, TIF, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV
Export: AVI, FLAC, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, OGG, PCA, QuickTime, RealAudio®, RealVideo®, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV
* 5.1 channel audio downmixed to stereo audio.
** 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 do not necessarily communicate with each other.
*** One-click publishing requires an internet connection from your PC to the web.
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