
Review Summary
Designed for a new generation of creative professionals
Vegas Pro 13 Edit delivers pure Vegas Pro core technology in a cost-effective package. New features include advanced archival tools, new audio metering options and full synchronization with the Vegas Pro Connect mobile iPad companion app. Vegas Pro 13 Edit offers more formats, more workflows and more creative control than ever before.
Innovative tools
Edit SD, HD, 2K and 4K material in 2D or stereoscopic 3D, with drag-and-drop functionality or traditional 3-point and 4-point editing modes. The Vegas Pro 13 interface provides an impressive array of innovative tools and thoughtful touches, with a fully customizable workspace for accomplishing a wide range of production tasks. Nest Vegas Pro projects within the timeline, customize and save keyboard commands and use application scripting to automate repetitive tasks.
New! Vegas Pro ConnectVegas Pro 13 collaboration enhancement app for iPad
To meet the collaboration challenge on video productions, Vegas Pro Connect replaces tedious written spreadsheets and notes with efficient online and offline review workflows. The app provides a comprehensive review system within a gesture-driven control surface and represents a genuine breakthrough in project collaboration and control. Easy to set up and use, Vegas Pro Connect provides the kind of collaborative edge that will make your clients feel like they have well-channeled editorial control as well as a more direct and meaningful involvement in the creative process.
Gesture controls
Perfect for the editing suite, the Vegas Pro Connect gesture-driven control surface does away with small touch targets, allowing editors to keep their eyes on the prize and stay focused in the creative zone at all times.
New! Superior editing and collaboration
Vegas Pro is known for being a rapid editing environment. The latest version expands on this with the introduction of a multi-tool paradigm which organizes frequently used tools in a convenient pop-up menu directly below the timeline to provide fast access for a more efficient editing workflow.
New! Loudness meters
Open the new Loudness Meters and tweak your mixes to maximize audio dynamic range while you maintain consistent-23 LUFS Integrated levels and create EBU R-128/CALM Act compliant renders that will pass unattenuated through every stage of any contemporary broadcaster's signal path. The result: perfection, with your audio delivered to viewers in a state as dynamic and pristine as when it was rendered exactly as you intended regardless of playback system.
New! Project Archiving
Organize and archive your completed production along with its associated media with the flexible Archive feature. Archive all media associated with a project or only the media used on the timeline, including nested projects. Automatically clear the Project Media window of unused material just prior to archiving in order to maximize storage space. Smart renaming prepares your projects for export to other applications.
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
· 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 multi-camera 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 Bezier 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
· QuickTime format support, with optimized AVC decode, for DSLR formats
· Red Book audio CD