Vegas Pro 8 software has extensive capture, import, and export support for video and audio. With the Vegas Pro 8 collection you can efficiently edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM™ formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs.

Capture DV from a variety of sources with automatic scene detection, batch capture, tape logging, media bins and thumbnail previews. Print projects to DV tape directly from the Vegas Pro timeline with NTSC or PAL color bars, tone, and source file or timeline timecode windows.

Vegas Pro 8 software has high-quality 2-pass VBR MPEG-2 encoding for DVD, broadcast, and other delivery targets. The high-quality DV codec delivers pristine colors, incredibly sharp images, artifact-free compositing and unparalleled recompression quality.

Vegas Pro 8 software is one of the few tools that can edit Atrac files and encode to a file format used by many Sony devices such as mp3 players, NET-MD players, and HI-MD players.

Vegas Pro 8 can import and arrange multichannel Broadcast Wave files. These files are used by field/hard disc recorders such as Nagra, Sound Devices, Mackie, and Tascam. The field record is the target audience for this feature. Vegas Pro 8 provides a workflow by recognizing time-stamp information on multichannel files and working well with these filed recorders.

Vegas Pro 8 can directly import stereo and 5.1 surround audio from Sony DVD Handycam camcorders directly to the timeline for editing. This feature is targeted for "traditional" consumers by providing and easy method to acquire and edit Handycam footage. In addition, Handycam footage that takes advantage of 5.1 audio recording can be imported and edited natively on the timeline.

Capture via SDI (Serial Digital Interface) multichannel audio. Vegas can now import multichannel audio from pro cameras and decks over SDI. Further, Vegas Pro 8 software can treat audio files from these sources as logical grouped events.

On faster PCs Vegas software can now print to tape without creating an audio proxy.

Burn your Vegas project directly to VideoCD for playback on most DVD players, multimedia CD for playback on your computer's CD-ROM, and take your project with you.

Master and burn Red Book Audio CD pre-masters suitable for professional replication directly from the Vegas timeline, with ISRC, UPC, and PQ list support.

Automate repetitive processes with editable scripts*. Create user-customizable scripts for batch rendering, still image export, timecode export, XML-based project export and see how Vegas scripting can optimize your workflow.

Vegas Pro 8 software supports Windows Media^® Audio 9 file format, providing users with high-quality, low bitrate compression options, including lossless, CBR, VBR and 5.1 surround audio.

Insert metadata command markers to launch Web sites during media file playback, display captions and more. Use the Preview in Player feature to play back and preview a project using the target media player.

Vegas Pro 8 chapter markers can be imported into DVD Architect Prosoftware as chapter points for quick scene creation. Named Vegas regions can be exported as a text file, and then imported into DVD Architect Pro software as frame-accurate subtitles.

For a listing of supported file extensions see the Vegas Pro 8 technical specifications.