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Review Summary
The Sony Vegas Pro 11 is a professional video editing software package that includes the Dolby Digital Professional Encoder (for 5.1 surround sound encoding) and DVD Architect Pro 5.2 for Blu-ray Disc and DVD authoring. Featuring extensive native support for video formats up to and including 4096 x 4096 resolution, the video-editing side of the software allows you to work easily - without re-wrapping or transcoding - with a variety of professional formats such as AVCHD, XDCAM EX, RED R3D and more. As extensive as its feature set is and as flexible and customizable the workflow, Vegas Pro 11 remains an approachable NLE, with simple, drag & drop operations for many editing tasks to go along with sophisticated options for ripple editing models.
With its full support for stereoscopic 3D editing, comprehensive multi-track audio editing & recording environment and GPU-accelerated rendering & real-time effects preview, Vegas Pro 11 is worthy of consideration for any professional video editor working on the Windows platform. There's little you can't do, as the software provides just about every tool you need to import video (including video & RAW files from DSLR cameras and almost every popular configuration of left-eye/right-eye 3D footage), monitor it, edit it, edit audio & create mixes, add effects, transitions & titles, render with the help of an OpenCL-compatible graphics card and output projects as web-friendly AVC & MP4 files and as professionally authored DVDs & Blu-ray Discs.
Like the remarkably full-featured disc-authoring features, the audio-production capabilities of Vegas Pro 11 are truly first-rate, especially for an NLE package. There's support for unlimited tracks, 5.1 surround-sound mixing and encoding to AC3 via the Dolby Digital Professional Encoder and a multithreaded audio engine that maximizes the available resources of your system to render projects quickly and enable the real-time preview of large numbers of tracks. Version 11 of the software package introduces a wealth of features, such as easy image stabilization, support for GPU acceleration, two titling tools for both 2D and 3D titles and stereoscopic editing tools that let you correct screen-edge violations easily.