Vegas Pro 17 Version Update Available

The latest update to video editing package Vegos Pro versio 17 is now available. Featuring 10 new features and 40+ bug fixes, the developers say this is one “monster of an update worth the wait”.

Build 321 as it is called, is available at https://rdir.magix.net/?page=1LGSASYSV1UH

New Features

• The Bézier tool’s motion tracking has been upgraded to track perspective change allowing for more effective planar tracking
• Navigation to exact timeline markers through typing the marker number on the keyboard number row now supports three-digit marker numbers
• An option for opening a media file in VEGAS Post has been added to the event hamburger button
• The VEGAS Screen Capture utility now provides the ability to save a capture project file which can then be imported into VEGAS Pro so that all captured media is imported onto the timeline on separate tracks and synchronized for instant editing
• An extension has been added to automatically adjust the length of an event after applying a playback rate change with the Slow Motion OFX plug-in
• The Warp Flow transition has been optimized to provide interesting results with a wider variation between the video clips involved and more gracefully defaults to a crossfade in extreme cases where warp flow calculations cannot be made
• The Video Stabilizer now automatically determines and uses the most suitable reference frame for freeze motion mode
• Uploading to social media sites process now uses the efficient rendering of the MAGIX AVC/AAC file type for faster rendering and uploading process
• The PiP Copy script now supports copying tracked perspective motion from the Bézier tracking information to the PinP plug-in
• Menu options for opening a file in FXhome HitFilm have been consolidated for more understandable presentation
• Several improvements and refinements have been made to the Smart Split feature including the addition of a preference that enables the user to change the default transition length
• VEGAS Pro now supports NVENC-based lossless encoding templates on qualifying Nvidia hardware

Bug Fixes

• Unreasonably long load times for large projects with many events have been eliminated
• The splitter between the preview and audio waveforms in the Trimmer window has been restored so it is possible again to change the height of the audio waveform area.
• Stabilization crash on certain files eliminated
• Custom NVENC templates from earlier version of VEGAS Pro can now properly be used for render
• Text editor button icon display problem corrected
• Edge cropping of the Video Scopes window no longer occurs
• User is no longer prompted for new instance or clone when creating nested timeline with generated media
• Controls are no longer overlapped in the uploading to social media dialogs
• the Bézier Masking plug-in now correctly updates for shape and location changes
• Use GPU processing for ACES color management preference artifacts eliminated
• Color Grading Panel controls that could disappear under certain specific actions now properly remain
• Custom values entered for the Pixel Aspect Ratio media property media in the Media tab of the Media Properties dialog are no longer inadvertently erased and ignored
• Adjusting overlap time of the Warp Flow transition no longer causes the software to hang on playback
• Mouse clicks in the Project Media window list view now properly selects the clicked-upon media
• Smart Split procedure is now properly identified in the Undo drop-down list
• The Picture-in-picture script no longer produces an error if the user attempts to run it without first creating tracking information
• A crash upon opening VEGAS Pro after closing the application with a saved project has been eliminated
• You can now undo adding the Color Grading Panel plug-in to an event
• Replacing a Main Timeline storyboard item that is a duplicate no longer removes all items that reference the same media
• Slow motion artifacts when processing with the CPU have been eliminated
• Warp Flow transition now properly stores the necessary tracking data
• It’s now possible to properly apply different edge filling across different events
• No longer crash upon attempting to load older, unsupported Boris Continuum plug-ins
• Creating a nested timeline no longer deletes markers or regions from the parent timeline
• Various translation problems have been fixed in different international versions
• Hover scrub no longer crashes or stops working after an undo/redo of a media replace or delete action
• A one-pixel “jump” between the stabilization freeze mode reference frame and the following frame has been eliminated
• Double-clicking a file in the Explorer now properly adds media to a selected unassociate storyboard
• Events are now placed in the proper order after adding duplicates to the Main Timeline storyboard
• The Picture in Picture plug-in now works properly during playback and render after copying motion tracking information to it
• No more green frames for 422 AVC MP4s during NVDEC hardware decoding
• Windowed HDR preview now properly updates during render
• ACES version and ACES color space properties changes no longer persist when user cancels changes in the Properties dialog box
• Image adjustments are now properly applied when Slow Motion is used as a video output effect
• A warning message is now properly presented when the user attempts to prerender a video without first choosing a render template
• Some render templates that showed the wrong vendor information have been corrected
• The X and Y Location sliders now properly adjust the location values when animating location settings for various plug-ins
• Several minor UI problems have been addressed
• The Color Grading panel is now properly disabled when more than one video event are selected
• Many corrections have been made to the application help
• Project Media context menu command Remove from Project now does what it’s supposed to do
• Color Grading mode parameters are properly read when reopening the project
• Audio/Video synchronization problems that could occur in HDR projects have been resolved
• Several Hi-DPI UI issues have been eliminated
• A problem that could cause a crash on playback or render in a project with Event Pan/Crop mask keyframes has been solved
• An issue that caused MP3 files not to play back on certain machines has been removed
• Hi-DPI preview no longer clips on a secondary monitor
• AVC playback on some machines that displayed poor performance have been improved
• Various improvements have been made which apply the new UI look to older components