What's New

VEGAS Pro 21 Update 3

• AI Smart Mask 2.0 plugin

  This plug-in uses AI to identify objects in your video and accurately mask them. You can create up to eight separate masks and apply tracking to them so that the masks follow along with objects in the video even if they’re moving. This can help you replace backgrounds without having shot in front of a green screen.

  For more information, see AI Smart Mask 2.0

• AI Text-Based Editing (beta)

  You can use the Speech to Text features to create a transcript of your project video and then edit the transcript—for example, delete a section of text or cut and paste text, etc.—and VEGAS automatically edits the events on your timeline to match the edits you made in the transcript. The opposite is also possible. For instance, if you trim an event on the timeline, VEGAS Pro automatically edits the transcript to match. This workflow can greatly speed up your editing process.

  For more information, see AI Speech to Text

• AV1 GPU support

  Support for AV1 continues to grow in VEGAS Pro. With this step, AV1 decoding utilizes GPU decoding codecs on Nvidia and AMD hardware which supports AV1 decoding.

• New preferences to manage .sfk files

  Two new preferences enable you to manage newly created SFK files. The Hide new .sfk files preference flags newly created SFK files as hidden so that they honor your Windows Hidden Files settings. The Do not create .sfk files to store peak data preference prevents VEGAS from creating .sfk files.

  For more information, see General Tab

• Optimized GPU processing for AVC & HEVC files

  VEGAS Pro now employs a newly optimized, more efficient pipeline for decoding more AVC & HEVC file subvariants. This results in much better timeline playback performance with higher, more consistent framerates for accurate previews.

• VEGAS Content media can now be added directly to the timeline

  In addition to the original Download button that enables you to download any VEGAS Content file to your local drive, two new buttons have been added.

  For more information, see Adding Stock Content

• New menu option to allow user to download the VEGAS user manual for offline help reference

  This menu option enables you to download the user manual so that you can access it even when you do not have an active internet connection. You can also then easily print all or part of the document if you need a hard copy of the help content.

• Media Share

  This window consolidates the Quick Upload and File Drop operations of previous versions of the VEGAS Hub Explorer into one central location. You can create a new Media Share collection and upload files to it by dragging files into it or scanning a QR code with your mobile device camera. You can create links that enable collaborators to view files you’ve uploaded, invite them to upload their own files, and manage your existing upload/download activity from this window.

  For more information, see Media Share

• VEGAS Hub features for perpetual users

  VEGAS Hub features are no longer exclusive to subscription customers. Perpetual users can now enjoy the benefits of Text to Speech and Speech to Text, VEGAS Content downloads, Media Share, and so on.

• HEIC/HEIF support

  VEGAS Pro now contains a native HEIC/HEIF decoder which allows you to add your HEIC/HEIF files shot on your mobile device to the VEGAS Pro timeline and edit them along with any other video format.

VEGAS Pro 21 (build 108)

• VEGAS AI Z-Depth OFX plug-in and compositor

  The Z-Depth tool enables you to achieve creative compositing results. With it you can define a threshold point between two layers in your still image or video—a foreground layer and a background layer—and then treat those layers differently. For instance, you can place text behind some objects in an image yet still in front of other objects in the same image. Or you can give the background an effect treatment such as a blur or color correction without affecting objects that you’ve defined as on the foreground.

  For more information AI Z-Depth

• Adjustment events

  Adjustment events provide a powerful tool for adding effects to your project in very flexible and creative ways. You can add an adjustment event to your project and apply effects to that event. Then, any video event in your timeline directly below the adjustment event will “inherit” the effect from the adjustment event. You can use this to easily bring effects in and out, create sophisticated customer transitions, and much more.

  For more information, see Adjustment events

• New GL Transitions

  Two new presets have been added to the GL Transitions transition type. The Static Wipe preset enables you to add a generated-static edge to the transition line between the two clips. The Directional Scale preset scales the first clip smaller and moves it off in a specified direction while it simultaneously scales the next clip larger and moves it on in the specified direction.

• Offset and Wrap OFX plug-in

  The Offset and Wrap OFX plug-in enables you to create motion effects on your video images. For instance, you can slide the video in any direction and have whatever “leaves” one edge of the video frame wraps around to the other edge of the frame. You can tile or mirror the image for further special effects. This tool really comes in handy in conjunction with Adjustment events to create modern, exciting video transitions and other effects.

  For more information, see Offset and Wrap

• Smart Masking

  This plug-in analyzes a video frame and uses artificial intelligence technology to identify objects in the frame that you can generate a mask for. You can filter out any objects below your accepted confidence level. Once the tool has identified an object or objects you want to create a mask for, the tool will add a Bézier Masking plug-in to your FX chain with a mask already in place. You can then fully adjust your new mask to correct for any masking inaccuracies. The tool also tracks motion so that you can create smart masks for video files.

  For more information, see AI Smart Mask

• VEGAS Mocha

  This version of the Mocha motion tracking tool has been developed by Boris FX specifically for use in VEGAS Pro. You can invoke the software from inside VEGAS Pro and perform all the sophisticated motion tracking that this industry-standard tool offers. Once you’ve created the tracking data inside Mocha, you can easily transfer that data to the VEGAS Pro Motion Tracking tool and apply it to your project in all the normal ways. You can also apply the tracking data to the Stabilization tool in VEGAS Pro for great video stabilization results.

  For more information, see Mocha Vegas

• Cloud-based text to speech

  VEGAS Text to Speech functionality has been transferred from a local-based feature to a cloud-based feature through VEGAS Hub. This brings a great deal of expanded functionality to the feature including scores of additional languages and voices, the ability to access new voices and features as soon as they’re ready without a new build of VEGAS Pro, and more.

  For more information, see AI Text to Speech

• Quick Upload

  The Quick Upload function enables you to upload files from your computer or other device to your VEGAS Hub File Drop collections. This makes it possible to quickly upload files to your Hub storage that you can then download to another computer for adding to the VEGAS Pro timeline or for a cloud back up of your media files.

  For more information, see Media Share

• Improved Button icons

  With newly updated button icons throughout different areas of the application, it’s much easier for you to identify buttons—especially in a selected state—as well as seeing more obvious change behavior when you point to a button. This enables you to more quickly identify the important buttons and their click state so that you can work more efficiently.

• Online Help

  The VEGAS help file has been moved into the VEGAS Hub so that it exists online and is available to all VEGAS users including trial users. While this requires you to have an active internet connection to access the application help, it brings significant benefits in terms of flexibility and the possibility to update content far more quickly.

VEGAS Pro 20 Update 3 (build 402)

• Multiple Smart Masks

  This enhancement to the AI Smart Mask feature enables you to create more than one mask at a time. This will be useful if you have more than one object in a video frame that you want to mask.

  For more information, see AI Smart Mask

• AI Smart Mask generated shape improvements

  The AI Smart Mask plug-in now uses a depth-based model to generate masks over identified objects. This results in more accurate masking and less time spent modifying the mask in the Beziér plug-in.

• Transfer Text properties

  This button in the Titles & Text media generator enables you to instantly apply the characteristics of one text event to all other text events on the same track. For example, if you have dozens of lower third text events in your project and decide to use a different color, font, size, and/or other characteristic for all of them, you only need to change the characteristics for one of the events and then can instantly apply the change or changes to all of the rest of them

  For more information, see Transfer Text Properties

• Window docking improvements

  Improvements to the window docking feature make it much easier to accurately customize your window layout. Much larger and well-defined target areas enable you to accurately select the docking target (existing dock area, new horizontal dock area, or new vertical dock area). The new outline indicators help you to see exactly where the window will dock when you release the mouse button.

  For more information, see Window Docking Area and Floating Window Docks

• Select a device for RAW processing

  A preference on the File I/O tab now enables you to specify the device you want to use for RAW processing. This delinks the RAW processing accelerator from the video processing accelerator and enables you to specify the best option for both of them. This is especially useful to you if you have multiple GPUs in your system because you can spread the processing work between two of them. This gives you higher overall GPU utilization and access to more processing power.

• RAW processing with CUDA

  CUDA processing enables VEGAS to take advantage of the native API of NVIDIA GPUs. This further accelerates RAW processing for real-time preview, reduces rendering times, and improves stability.

• Improvements to the Welcome screen

  You can now choose various frame rates for your new project from a new drop-down list. Switching to a list also creates room for another drop-down list that you can use to specify your project resolution.

• New Sharp Model for Upscale plugin

• Support for Mocha shape data

  Track the shape of an object with Mocha, then import the shape data into the VEGAS Motion Tracking workflow and to the Bézier Mask plug-in.

VEGAS Pro 20 Update 2 (build 326)

• New AI engine

  This new engine makes better use of a wider range of GPU power supplied by graphics cards. This results in significantly faster processing of AI functions.

• VST3 support

  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.

• Hover Scrub bypass

  This enables the user to bypass the default hover scrub behavior in the Project Media window. With hover scrub bypassed, the user can move their mouse across the thumbnail without scrubbing through the file and thus seeing the thumbnail change.

  For more information, see Bypass Hover Scrub

• UX Improvements for File Drop workflow

  The workflow has been improved to include visible buttons for creating new File Drops, managing an existing File Drop, and other operations that were previously only available through a right-click context menu. These buttons are invisible until the user points their mouse to a File Drop collection or the File Drop collection set at which time they appear and are easily noticeable and accessible.

  For more information, see Media Share

• Netherlands and Belgian Dutch voices in Text to Speech

  The user can now generate audio in two Flemish variations—Netherlands Dutch and Belgium Dutch—in one male voice and one female voice each. Text can also be translated into these Flemish variations.

• New Newsfeed Mechanism

  This provides the user with more relevant and useful news information from VEGAS creative Software.

• Higher quality audio output for Text-to-Speech

  Text to Speech now supports a sample rate of 48KHz. The user can choose between 24KHz for when they want to minimize file size, and 48KHz when they need the maximum available sound quality.

• Add or replace plug-ins in an FX chain

  The user can decide whether a newly selected audio or video effect or effects package will be added to the existing effects chain (with the Add button), or replace the existing chain completely (with the new Replace button).

  For more information, see Adding or replacing plug-ins in an FX chain

• Hue vs Luminance color curve

  This curve enables you to define a hue or the average of a range of hues in the video and then adjust the luminance of just that color. This way you can control Luminance levels that range from the entire video to very targeted areas of the video based on selected hue. For example, you could sample a range of blues and then increase the luminance to make the color look brighter

  For more information, see Hue vs Luminance color curve

• Saturation vs Luminance

  This curve enables you to define a range of saturation levels in the video and then adjust the luminance level of just that range. You can control luminance levels that range from the entire video to very targeted areas of the video based on current saturation levels. For example, you could define a saturation range that includes everything below a certain level and raise the luminance on that range to make everything in that saturation range look a bit brighter.

  For more information, see Saturation vs Luminance

• Luminance vs Saturation

  This curve enables you to define a range of luminance levels in the video and then adjust the saturation level of just that range. You can control saturation levels that range from the entire video to very targeted areas of the video based on current luminance levels. For example, you could define a luminance range that includes everything above a certain level and raise the saturation on that range to make everything in that luminance range look more vibrant.

  For more information, see Luminance vs Saturation

• Picture-in-Picture plugin enhancements

  You can now easily change the aspect ratio of the Picture-in-Picture box so that you can stretch the image inside the box vertically, horizontally, or both. You can drag any side of the box to change its width and height without first switching the mode to Free Form. This enables you to quickly and intuitively change the aspect ratio of the position box and thus stretch the image in the box.

• Language support: Brazilian Portuguese

  You can now set your user interface language to Brazilian Portuguese when you install VEGAS Pro.

• AI Smart Mask (beta)

  This plug-in analyzes a video frame and uses artificial intelligence technology to identify objects in the frame that you can generate a mask for. You can filter out any objects below your accepted confidence level. Once the tool has identified an object you want to create a mask for, the tool will add a Bézier Masking plug-in to your FX chain with a mask already in place. You can then fully adjust your new mask to correct for any masking inaccuracies.

  For more information, see AI Smart Mask

• Welcome Screen

  On startup, VEGAS will display a dialog which will quickly let you select a project to open to, or create a new project. If no recent projects exist, the option of two different window layouts is presented to the user. If the user would prefer not to see this window on startup, a preference has been added to turn it off on the General area of the preferences dialog.

• Animation control over individual Bézier mask points

  You can set keyframes to control the shape and position of your mask at various times. As with other keyframes, VEGAS then animates the settings from one point to the next. With this, you can animate the shape and position of your masks over time.

  For more information, see Animation control over individual Bézier mask points

• Indicator of active Auto Ripple Edit mode

  When you engage Auto Ripple mode, the event boarder that highlights a selected event turns from yellow to red. The timeline cursor also changes to red. These indicators will help you avoid accidentally making ripple edits when you’ve forgotten that you are in Auto Ripple mode.

  For more information, see Applying a post-edit ripples automatically

VEGAS Pro 20 Update 1 (build 214)

• Hue vs Saturation color curve

  This curve enables the user to define a hue or a hue range and adjust the saturation of that value. Thus, the user can change the saturation of anything from the entire video to a very specific hue in the video. For example, the user could define a range of blue values and raise the saturation of those values to make the blues in the video more vibrant.

  For more information, see Hue vs. Saturation color curve

• Saturation vs Saturation color curve

  This curve enables the user to define a range of saturation levels in the video and then adjust the saturation level of just that range. This enables the user to control saturation levels that range from the entire video to very targeted areas of the video based on current saturation levels. For example, the user could define a saturation range that includes everything below a level of 150 and remove the saturation from that range so that everything that was originally below 150 would now be completely desaturated.

  For more information, see Saturation vs. Saturation color curve

• Color selector for color curves

  With this the user can easily sample a value or a range of values in the video to which the curve adjustments will apply. This makes it easy, for example, to target a specific hue or a range of hues that will be affected by the adjustments made with the curve.

  For more information, see Color Selector

• Zoomable preview

  The user can now zoom into and out of the Video Preview window. This helps especially to see the details of an object while working with the Bèzier Masking tools and seeing fine details of color grading adjustments. The user can zoom into any target area of the video preview window and scroll the zoomed view to see different areas without first zooming back out.

  For more information, see Zooming and Panning in the Video Preview Window

• Comment field for File Drop

  This gives the user the ability to add a custom message such as instructions or explanation to the collaborators they invite to their File Drop session. Anything the user enters into this field will be added to the invitation email that the collaborator receives which invites them to the File Drop.

  For more information, see Media Share

• AI-generated Thumbnails for File Drop files

  This intelligently chooses a frame of the video file uploaded through File Drop to represent the content of the video. This avoids the problem caused using the video’s first frame when files fade from black.

VEGAS Pro 20 release

• 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.

  For more information, see White Balance controls

• 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.

  For more information, see Hue vs. Hue color curve

• 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

  For more information, see Automatic project collections

• 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.

  For more information, see Media Share

• 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

  For more information, see GL Transitions

• 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.

  For more information, see Transition Progress with animation

• 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

  For more information, see Create regions