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Vegas® Movie Studio™ Platinum 7.0
July 2006
Contents
This document contains information on the following topics:
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Applicable to boxed products only. If you've purchased a downloadable
product, an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the product documentation
is available from our Web
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Thank you for purchasing Sony Media Software Vegas Movie Studio 7.0
software. This document contains information about installing
and using Vegas Movie Studio software on
your computer.
Notable Fixes/Changes in Version 7.0a
- A bug has been fixed that caused 5.1 surround projects to save audio in only the front channels when using the Make Movie Wizard to burn your project to DVD.
What's New in Version 7.0
- Export video to PSP® (PlayStation®Portable)
- You can now export Sony AVC/AAC (also called H.264 or MPEG-4 AVC).
- MainConcept AVC/AAC codec. You can use this plug-in to import H.264 video in your
projects and to render H.264 video to Apple iPod® video format).
- 5.1 surround support.
- Support has been added for opening and rendering ATRAC3™, ATRAC3plus™, and ATRAC
Advanced Lossless™ files.
- Stereo and 5.1-channel AC-3 rendering.
- Cut/copy/delete operations can be applied to grouped events.
- 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 Movie Studio 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 Movie Studio software to function
normally.
- 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.
- HDV capture requires that you have a registered version
of the Sony MPEG-2 plug-in on your system.
- You can use native HDV MPEG-2 transport streams on the
Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 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 render to an intermediate format 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.
- The Sony Handycam USB driver that is included with DVD-based camcorders can prevent Vegas Movie Studio from recognizing a USB-connected camera. If you use the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel to uninstall the "Sony DVD Handycam USB driver" component, Vegas Movie Studio will be able connect to the camera and import video using Import > DVD Camcorder Disc.
- VR mode requires Windows XP SP2 or greater.
The following lists the minimum system requirements for using Sony Media Software Vegas Movie Studio software:
The install utility creates any necessary folders and copies all files required by Vegas Movie Studio software to your computer.
Installing from CD
- Place the Vegas Movie Studio CD-ROM in the drive. The setup screen
is displayed (if CD-ROM AutoPlay is enabled).
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If you have disabled the drive's AutoPlay
feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type
D:\setup.exe, where D is the drive letter of your
CD or DVD drive, and follow the on-screen prompts to
complete the installation. |
- Click Install, and then follow the on-screen
prompts to install the appropriate version of Vegas Movie Studio for
your computer.
Installing from the Web
- Download the install utility from our Web
site.
- Double-click the file, and then follow the on-screen prompts
to install the appropriate version of Vegas Movie Studio for your computer.
6.0 Vegas Movie Studio Quick Start Guide Included on the application disc is a Vegas Movie Studio Quick Start Guide in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. The Acrobat format allows easy
printing of the text, should you need a hard copy. The Quick Start Guide is located in the Manual folder on the application disc.
Installing Adobe Reader
In order to view the Quick Start Guide, you will need to install
the Adobe Reader. It has been included on the application disc in the
\Extras\Adobe Reader folder for your convenience. To
install Acrobat Reader, follow these steps:
- Place the Vegas Movie Studio application disc in the drive. AutoPlay
launches an installation menu.
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If you have disabled the drive's AutoPlay
feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type
D:\Extras\Adobe Reader\English\AdbeRdr707_en_US.exe,
where D is the drive letter of your CD or DVD drive,
and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation. |
- Choose Browse CD, and then browse to
the D:\Extras\Adobe Reader\English\ folder.
- Double-click the AdbeRdr707_en_US.exe icon and follow
the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.
If you would like information or demos of other products
from Sony Media Software, please visit our Web
site. You will always find the latest technical information,
demos, and product announcements from Sony Media Software
there.
Commercial distribution of the Sony Media Software demos requires written permission from Sony Media Software.
8.0 Contacting Sony Media Software Sony Media Software can be contacted in the following ways:
Mailing Address:
Sony Media Software
1617 Sherman Ave.
Madison, Wisconsin 53704
USA
Customer Service/Sales:
Telephone support during normal office hours:
- 1-800-577-6642 (toll-free) in US, Canada, and Virgin Islands.
- +608-204-7703 for all other countries.
- Fax: 1-608-250-1745.
Technical Support
Copyright © 2006. Madison Media Software, Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation
of America. All Rights Reserved.
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