Sony Pictures to show Vegas 5 at NAB

Post, April, 2004

CULVER CITY, CA -- Sony Pictures Digital Networks (www.sonypictures.com) will be at the Sony booth at NAB, showing off the latest release of its Vegas nonlinear editing software. The company acquired the software tool from Sonic Foundry last August and has made a number of enhancements to the Windows XP/2000-based application in order to gear it more toward the professional video space.

In addition to a customizable interface and an automatable control surface, Vegas 5 includes two render-only rendering licenses allowing users to render projects offline. The tool allows for 5.1 surround mixing and can easily fold down multichannel mixes to stereo or mono releases without the need for remixing. A new import filter recognizes Flash files in their native format. Vegas 5 also features improved MPEG-2 support.

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Priced at $699, Vegas 5 is bundled with Boris FX's Graffiti titling tool and Magic Bullet's Movie Looks effects plug-in.

Sony is also offering a Vegas + DVD Production Suite for users creating DVD titles. The package includes the DVD Architect application, which allows for programmable end actions, subtitle creation and support for multiple audio tracks, among other features. The $999 package includes the BorisFX and Magic Bullet tools.