Dear Community,

First and foremost, we want to thank you all for your continued loyalty and your patience. This time, we have a large update for you where we will fulfill a longtime wish. Drum roll please... We will support AMD GPU acceleration!



But hold your horses... There's more! We have a long list of performance and stability improvements for you as well.

You can download the build 361 now at: http://rdir.magix.net/?page=KN21DNJXNGEU

Did this patch help you? Let us know in our general discussion thread.

New Features

Added support for AMD VCE hardware acceleration for encoding 8-bit, progressive HEVC files and H264 AVC/AAC files

The So4Coumpoundplug now supports reading Timecode from MP4/MOV files formats such as GoPro, XAVC-S, and Alpaha 7s cameras

Added an option to disable hardware acceleration when creating custom presets in Intel HEVC Render plugin

Added a preference that enables you to bypass QSV hardware acceleration and operate without this technology

Added a link in the Help menu to the VEGAS Community home page where users can quickly access the VEGAS user forums, tutorial videos, and the VEGAS Magazine

Bug Fixes

Selectively Paste Attributes can now copy event switches independently of audio FX

Improved workflow and performance of the Swap Video Files function including that the folder dialog now remembers the last used diretory

OK button in the Video Swap is now properly positioned regardless of any resizing of the dialog box

Improved the efficiency of undo history when making changes to parameters of an OFX plug-in

H.263 files are now properly supported on the timeline

Problems reading ProRes files on the timeline have been resolved

Docking window tab order no longer gets mixed up

Pressing Enter in the Render dialog box now properly executes a render instead of opening render options

Rending an image sequence to BMP and JPEG formats in 32-bit mode now yields the correct output

Color levels are properly preserved when rendering a 32-bit project to XDCAM-EX format

Resolved a conflict between QSV and 10-bit HEVC file renders on i7-770/i7-8700 systems

Tabbing behavior has been improved in the Render As dialog box so that the results of tabbing from one control to the next is more logical

The Swap Media dialog box no longer places the OK button in an unexpected state upon window resize

32-bit, 4K projects now calculate project size correctly and no longer exhibit random failures or unexpected behavior

The Explorer window now properly preserves the file list arrangement in Details mode

Tabbing behavior in the Render As dialog box has been greatly improved

Event header buttons no longer get clipped by the vertical scrollbar

A problem that could cause audio FX to have a cumulative effect when they should not has been resolved

Customization of favorite render templates is now properly recognized

Memory management has been improved to enhance render performance for GPUs with less than 4GB memory on 4K 32 bit projects

The application now properly handles codec activation requests when the PC is off line

Audio FX no longer have a cumulative effect when looping playback of a 32-bit WAV file

Right-clicking to open the context menu with several events selected, some of which are empty, no longer causes a crash

The LUT OFX plug-in now properly handles alpha values

MAGIX AVC/AAC plugin now shows the full set of encoding modes when the QSV global preference is disabled

The File Name field in the Render As dialog box no longer locks users out after rendering to a P2 file

Region metadata from the Sony A7 camera is now properly supported

Paste Event Attributes from an event holding footage of one frame size to an even holding footage of a different frame size now handles event Pan/Crop values properly

Opening the event context menu or the Edit menu when a video track has three or more empty events on it no longer causes a crash

Have you missed an update? Have a look at our previous patch notes!



VEGAS Pro 14

Update 1 & 2 (build 178 & 189)

Update 3 (build 201)

Update 4 (build 211)

Update 5 (build 244)

Update 6 (build 252)

Update 7 (build 270)



VEGAS Pro 15

VEGAS Pro 15 Release

Update 1 (build 216)

Update 2 (build 261)

Update 3 (build 311)

Update 4 (build 321)

Best regards,

Mathias