Searchable Media Pool Bins Vectorscope, Histogram, Parade and Waveform Monitoring Application Scripting Improved Ripple Editing Motion Blur and Super-Sampling Envelopes 5.1 Surround Mixing Dolby® Digital AC-3 Encoding certified and tested by Dolby Laboratories DirectX® Audio Plug-In Effects Automation ASIO Driver Support Windows Media™ 9 Support, including Surround Encoding DVD Authoring with AC-3 File Import Capabilities Integration with DVD Architect Via Chapter Marker Passing Vegas 4.0b Released in April 2003; added HD editing and 24p support. Vegas 4.0e Released in November 2003; This is the first release of Vegas under the ownership of Sony; Sonic Foundry had sold Vegas alongside Sound Forge and other programs to Sony Pictures Digital for US$18 Million that same year. Vegas 5.0 Released in April 2004. Vegas 6.0 Released on 18 April 2005. Vegas 7.0 Released in September 2006. Version 7 is the final Vegas release to include Windows 2000 support. Vegas Pro 8.0 Released on 10 September 2007. The first Sony Vegas version to go with the "Sony Vegas Pro" branding instead of the regular "Sony Vegas" branding. It also moved the timeline to the bottom by default, but users can still move it back to the top. Vegas Pro 8.1 Vegas Pro 8.1 is the first version of Vegas Pro to be ported to 64-bit systems. Vegas Pro 9.0 On 11 May 2009, Sony Creative Software released Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 with greater support for digital cinema including: Support for 4K resolution Native support for pro camcorder formats such as Red and XDCAM EX The latest release of Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 is Vegas Pro 9.0e (Released on 13 May 2010), which includes features such as new white balance video FX. In 2009, Sony Creative Software purchased the Velvetmatter Radiance suite of video FX plug-ins and these are included in Vegas 9. As a result, they are no longer available as a separate product from Velvetmatter. Vegas Pro 10 Sony Vegas Pro 10, released on 11 October 2010. This release added: Stereoscopic 3D Editing Comprehensive Closed Captioning GPU-Accelerated AVC Encoding for limited formats (Using NVIDIA CUDA). With the release of Vegas 10d, support was extended to some AMD GPUs (via the OpenCL GPGPU API). Image Stabilization Audio Event FX Track Management Elastique Pitch Method OpenFX plugins support A few more updates and UI changes Version 10 is the final Vegas Pro release to include Windows XP support. Vegas Pro 11 Sony announced Vegas Pro