This is an overview of all the New Features that were added to VEGAS Pro 17, during it's lifetime.
Complete list of all New Features added to Vegas Pro 17
Check your build version
The final build version released for Vegas Pro 17 is build #455. To check which build version you have installed, open VEGAS Pro and go to Help/About. If you have an older build version installed, I recommend installing the latest version from here.
All New Features
- Nested Timelines This is a further development of the existing nested projects functionality. Where a nested project has to be opened in a second instance of VEGAS Pro for editing, with the nested timelines it is now possible to create and edit a "project-inside-a project" directly from the timeline.
- Color Grading window: Several color-related Video Event FX (including Input LUT, Color Wheels, Color Curves,HSL, White Balance and many more) are combined in a dedicated screen area that is easily shown or hidden with a toolbar button. To save you a lot of clicks it can stay open to apply the desired color grading to the different events, instead of opening each event's FX chain and loading the color FX separately.
- LUT Export: Save all color effects from an effect chain as a CUBE file with the Save LUT button in the Plug-in chooser window.
- Improved Storyboard functionality: You can add the same piece of media to a single storyboard, and thumbnails reflect the in point of the media that is used in the timeline.
- Warp Flow transition/Smart Split: The Warp Flow transition automatically fixes jump cuts by synthesizing movement. The Smart Split command cuts out parts of an event and applies the Warp Flow transition to conceal the cut.
- Mesh Warp plug-in for creative deformation of your footage, or, when you set the grid size to 1x1 it gives you four corner points to quickly conform your video to a non-rectangular four-sided surface.
- Lens Correction plug-in to compensate distortions from wide-angle lens systems as used in action cams.
- HDR Color support enhancements
- GPU-based processing
- Windowed HDR Preview (preview in the Video Preview window)
- HDR Specific color grading
- HLG support
- Stabilization improvements: Using the Video stabilization is now also possible at event level, when used on event level it is possible to visualize the motion tracks of the stabilization.
- Collaboration Center: Attach notes to your project if you want to hand it to someone else. The notes can be tagged as "resolved", resolved notes can be hidden.
- Automatic Slideshow Creator: Create a Slideshow of a desired length from a folder or selection of pictures.
- Adjustable Color temperature enhancement to White Balance plug-in.
- Audio synchronization for multicam: Synchronize Multicam footage by analyzing and matching the audio track of the recordings.
- 8k support : You can add 8k to your project now when using proxy files.
- New Formats:
- Experimental MKV support.
- 10 bit intermediate format
- ProRes 4444 files with embedded alpha channels
- NVENC 10-bit HEVC rendering
- Hardware decoding for AVC and HEVC
- User Interface improvements:
- You'll get a warning when you delete a track that has events on it.
- Hi-DPI interface improvements: The High DPI mode is now defaulted to on for VEGAS Pro17
- You can display the Event length on the header of timeline events. Find it in the hamburger menu for each event or under the View menu.
- Temporarily ignore event grouping when moving an event: Hold both the left and right mouse buttons as you drag an event to move it independently from other group members.
- There's a new indicator on an event to show if Media FX have been applied to the media the event holds (find it in the event hamburger menu)
- You will be asked to confirm if you click cancel in a render process.
- New, task specific, default layouts / Dashboard:Easy editing modes for beginners work with a simplified version of the user interface that show only the most important controls for a step-by-step walk-through from adding media to the final movie, everything put together in the Dashboard window. The Guided Video Creator from the Tool Menu takes you through these steps.
- VEGAS Screen Capture utility: Record video streams from your browser or video game.
- Motion tracking: Track motion in a scene and let other events or text follow the movement.
- Super-smooth slow motion (optical flow and motion estimation) with the VEGAS Slow Motion plug-in
- The Bézier tool's motion tracking has been upgraded to track perspective change allowing for more effective planar tracking
- Navigation to exact timeline markers through typing the marker number on the keyboard number row now supports three-digit marker numbers
- An option for opening a media file in VEGAS Post has been added to the event hamburger button
- The VEGAS Screen Capture utility now provides the ability to save a capture project file which can then be imported into VEGAS Pro so that all captured media is imported onto the timeline on separate tracks and synchronized for instant editing
- An extension has been added to automatically adjust the length of an event after applying a playback rate change with the Slow Motion OFX plug-in
- The Warp Flow transition has been optimized to provide interesting results with a wider variation between the video clips involved and more gracefully defaults to a crossfade in extreme cases where warp flow calculations cannot be made
- The Video Stabilizer now automatically determines and uses the most suitable reference frame for freeze motion mode
- Uploading to social media sites process now uses the efficient rendering of the MAGIX AVC/AAC file type for faster rendering and uploading process
- The PiP Copy script now supports copying tracked perspective motion from the Bézier tracking information to the PinP plug-in
- Menu options for opening a file in FXhome HitFilm have been consolidated for more understandable presentation
- Several improvements and refinements have been made to the Smart Split feature including the addition of a preference that enables the user to change the default transition length
- VEGAS Pro now supports NVENC-based lossless encoding templates on qualifying Nvidia hardware
- Improved performance for MeshWarp video effect
- Backwards tracking for Bézier Mask video effect
- Improved precision for tracking function in Bézier Mask video effect
- Added ability to render to 8k for any project that is greater than 4k resolution
- Support setting projects to up to 240 frames per second
- Trials of VEGAS POST (Vegas Image & Vegas Effects)
- Auto-update mechanism for VEGAS POST
- HDR-specific Intel QSV templates for HEVC renders
- Option to select color histogram for White Balance tools
- Render template for 360 5.7k projects
- Webcam video capture is now available in the VEGAS Capture utility
- Mouse cursor capture is now available in the VEGAS Capture utility
- White Balance improvements
- 5.7k render template now available for 360 projects
- AMD decoding support for AVC and HEVC media
