This is an overview of all the New Features that were added to VEGAS Pro 19, during it's lifetime.
Complete list of all New Features added to Vegas Pro 19
Check your build version
The final build version released for Vegas Pro 19 is build #651. 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
- VEGAS Hub
- VEGAS Content (for VEGAS 365 Users)
- Blackmagic RAW (Beta)
- Color Grading Panel work updates
- Range-limited color wheels
- Color Picker
- LUT presets for both Camera and Look LUTS
- Split mode for Color Curves
- Artificial Intelligence
- Upscale and Zoom plugin
- Text to Speech (for VEGAS 365 Users)
- Arbitrary style transfer
- New style transfer presets and models
- Improved Colorization model
- Automatic Scene Detection options
- Scene Detection OFX plug-in
- Adjustment Tracks
- HDR
- HW encoding for HDR presets
- OpenColorIO 2.0 support
- ACES 1.2
- Updated Pre-render workflow
- Dynamic RAM Preview improvements
- Hub Explorer (for VEGAS 365 Users)
- Refreshed UI
- Project Notes
- Timecode-aware notes
- Header color selection
- Labels
- Import of Mocha data into Motion Tracking panel
- Update to OpenVino 1.4
- Danish voice added to Text to Speech
- Added a more accurate optical flow mode for the Slow Motion FX
- Realtime Optical Flow for the Slow Motion FX
- Added Optical Flow into the Warp Flow transition and Smart Split function
- New menu option to Clear Dynamic RAM Preview memory
- FX and Pan/Crop editor windows automatically resize when undocked
- Added preview of selected colors in the Color Grading panel
- Color grading panel now contains a region option when selecting a color
- Instant access to the Selection Tool from the Normal Edit tool
- Color Keys number pad support for adjustments in the Color Grading Panel
- Fine mouse movements for the Color Grading Panel
- Button display independence for Adjustment Tracks
- Load text from Titles & Text events into Text to Speech
- Hardware Acceleration for Upscale plugin
- Hardware Acceleration for Colorization plugin
- Hardware Acceleration for Style Transfer plugin
- Support 5k and 8k render templates in all projects
- Add a third model to Upscaler plugin for better use on blurry footage
- A new transition type based on the GL Transitions Package offers around 50 modern, customizable transitions
- The option to save RAW companion files along with media files when creating a Project Archive
- GPU driver alerts
- Detect some media formats that are known to perform poorly during editing and display a message that encourages the user to transcode that media into a more edit-friendly format
- Access to the previously removed Smart Upscale plugin via the Deprecated Features tab in the Preferences dialog box
- Apple ProRes files are now supported for both import and export
- Color grading panel is now available at the media, track, and video output levels
- Optical Flow slow motion now available for velocity curves and playback rate settings
- An expanded lower limit for playback rate
- Event switch to automatically trim events to show all frames
- Resampling mode revamp including Disable Resampling as the default
- Option in Mesh Warp to more smoothly morph image between mesh points
- Ability to show unquantized event edges
- Ability to turn off the preview window during a render
- New AI tab in the Video Plugins window
- VEGAS Hub and Hub Explorer now part of the default layout
- BETA: Speech to Text functionality including automatic subtitle generation and export of SRT, SUB, and TXT files
- Bezier Curve support for keyframe animation for effects
- Speech to Text auto-detects the OS language
- Update to support the latest version of OFX specification
- Motion Blur FX
- Hardware detection now handles multiple GPUs from the same vendor
- Color Grading can now be applied to the Track, Media, and Video Output levels
- Brightness and Contrast controls for the Color Grading Panel
- Locked indicator on events
- Text bounded background for Titles and Text generator
- Performance improvements for Color Grading curve options
- Automatically crop video to the project output aspect ratio
- Customized subtitle creation for Speech to Text
- New setting to allow matching of aspect ratio to media
- GPU acceleration for Scene and Shot detection
- Additional Languages and Regional dialects for Text to Speech
- New templates for vertical aspect ratio projects
- New templates for rendering vertical aspect ratio projects
