• 1.0 Welcome
• 2.0 What’s New
• 3.0 Known Issues
• 4.0 System Requirements
• 5.0 Installation
• 6.0 Vegas User Manual
• 7.0 Demos
• 8.0 Contacting Sony Pictures Digital Inc.

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Notable Fixes/Changes in Version 6.0a

• You can now print to HDV tape by choosing Print Video to HDV Tape from the Tools menu. This new wizard supports all currently shipping HDV cameras and deck types.
• Double-clicking a .veg file now opens the Vegas project instead of nesting the .veg within the current project. If you want to nest a .veg, you can drag it from the Explorer window or choose File > Import > Media and browse to the .veg you want to nest.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented events that are contained completely within other events from being exported when exporting your project as an AAF file.
• Scripts that have been compiled as .DLL files can now be added to the Scripting menu.
• If you create a shortcut to a script in the Script Menu folder, you can use the shortcut to call the script and pass an argument to the script. By creating multiple shortcuts with different arguments, you can use the same script for several functions, and each shortcut will appear in the Scripting menu as a separate item.
• The Resample quality setting on the Audio tab of the Project Properties dialog determines the quality of processing when time-stretching audio events.
• When you nest Vegas projects, a warning is now displayed if media files or plug-ins from the nested project are not available on your computer.
• A new setting has been added to the General tab of the Preferences dialog. Select the AAF Export - Use frame unit for audio check box if you want to use frame units for audio tracks when you export your project as an AAF file. When the check box is cleared, audio will be exported as sample units. Selecting the check box will improve compatibility with other applications for project interchange: some applications will not import your project correctly when frame units are used for video and sample units are used for audio. Clear the check box only if your project contains audio only or if you know the application that will import your AAF file supports frame units for video and sample units for audio.
• If you installed a boxed version of the initial Vegas 6.0 release, the DV video capture tool would time out and become unusable. This has been fixed in version 6.0a.
• Numerous stability and performance enhancements have been implemented for DeckLink capture, batch capture, timecode-based capture, and print to tape.

What's New in Version 6.0

Video

• A/V synchronization detection and repair
• Full-screen preview to a secondary Windows display (including DVI monitors)
• Ability to save keyframe presets in the Track Motion and 3D Track Motion dialogs

Audio

• Option to ignore fact chunk when opening compressed WAV files
• VST effect support
• Playhead timeline scrubbing
• Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) import

Workflow

• Support for nested Vegas projects
• Ability to save a project path in a rendered file and edit a rendered file's source project
• Media Manager window
• AAF import and export
• Multithreaded rendering
• Ability to display fade lengths between selected and nonselected events
• Regions and markers that occur at the end of rendered file are now adjusted so they occur on the last audio sample of the rendered file. If you're rendering the loop region only, any region that extends beyond the loop region is adjust so the region end occurs on the last audio sample. This adjustment prevents warning messages when the rendered files are opened in Sound Forge software.

Hardware

• Support for capturing and printing to tape via Blackmagic Design DeckLink™ cards
• Support for capturing from HDV cameras

• If you have a USB SmartMedia reader device installed on your PC, you may experience problems when you attempt to access your CD drive from Vegas software for extracting audio or burning CDs. This is due to an error in the SmartMedia reader driver. Using the Unplug or Eject Hardware Wizard to remove the reader should allow Vegas software to function normally.
• In order to use full-screen video preview on a secondary monitor, the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box must be selected on the Settings tab or the Display Properties dialog (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display)
• If your display adapter does not support 3D acceleration, you will not be able to use full-screen video preview on a secondary video monitor.
• If you experience video problems when using full-screen video preview on a secondary video monitor, update your display adapter to use the latest drivers from the manufacturer.
• 24-bit Windows Media Audio files will always be read as 16-bit files in Windows 2000 (multichannel files are read as 16-bit stereo). This is a limitation of the operating system. You can render 24-bit WMA files, but if you want to read these files as 24-bit audio, copy them to a Windows XP machine.
• If you export a Vegas project that contains video crossfades as an AAF file and import the AAF into Adobe Premiere 1.5, an error will be displayed. This is due to a limitation of the AAF plug-in that was included with Premiere 1.5. Please check with Adobe for an update.
• If you import an Adobe Premiere 1.5 AAF into a Vegas project, Clip Speed/Duration settings from the Premiere project will not be correctly associated with the Playback rate control in the Vegas Event Properties dialog. This is due to a limitation of the AAF plug-in that was included with Premiere 1.5. Please check with Adobe for an update.
• If you have many clips on the timeline that are encoded with the CineForm HD codec, performance can be significantly degraded. Render related clips into a single intermediate file when possible.
• HDV capture requires that you have a registered version of the Sony MPEG-2 plug-in on your system.
• If you want to use the Media Manager with ACID 5.0 and Vegas 6.0 software, please install the ACID 5.0a update.
• You can use native HDV MPEG-2 transport streams on the Vegas timeline, but playback performance will be poor on most systems. We recommend you convert the native HDV footage—or selected portions of it—to an HDV intermediate format for timeline editing. You can add your native HDV files on the timeline, create regions for selected scenes, and then choose Tools > Scripting > Batch Render. In the Batch Render dialog, choose a target folder, the intermediate file type(s) you wish to use, and select the Render Regions radio button to create multiple intermediate files. For more information about working with HDV, please refer to the online help.
• If you are printing a rendered file to HDV tape, the file must precisely conform to the target HDV device and file type requirements, or the print-to-tape operation will fail. Rendering using the provided HDV MPEG-2 render templates—unmodified in any way—is required to successfully print to HDV tape.

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
• 800 MHz processor (2.8 GHz recommended for HDV)
• 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 600 MB hard-disk space for optional Sony Sound Series Loops & Samples reference library installation
• 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended for HDV)
• OHCI-compatible i.LINK® connector*/IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape)
• Windows-compatible sound card
• CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on CD-ROM)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (included on CD-ROM)
• Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)

  Please note: Some features may require product registration.

  *i.LINK is a registered trademark of Sony Electronics, used only to designate that a product contains an IEEE 1394 connector. All products with an IEEE 1394 connector may not communicate with each other.

1. Place the Vegas CD-ROM in the drive. The setup screen is displayed (if CD-ROM AutoPlay is enabled).

   If CD-ROM AutoPlay is not enabled, click the Start button and choose Run. In the Run dialog that appears, type the CD-ROM drive letter and add :\setup.exe. Click OK to start the installation.

2. Click Install, and then follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate version of Vegas for your computer.

1. Download the install utility from our Web site.
2. Double-click the file, and then follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate version of Vegas for your computer.

6.0 Vegas USER MANUAL

1. Place the Vegas CD in the drive. AutoPlay launches an installation menu.

   If you have disabled the CD-ROM AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\Extras\Adobe Reader 6.0\English\AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

2. Choose Browse CD, and then browse to the D:\Extras\Adobe Reader 6.0\English\ folder.
3. Double-click the AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe icon and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

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