Vegasamp;#153; Movie Studio Platinum Pro Pack takes HD video and audio production even further with tools for professional-level sound design and more video effects and transitions. Edit video in nearly any format including high-definition HDV and AVCHD. Use the included Sound Forgeamp;#153; Audio Studio software for precise audio editing and Cinescoreamp;#153; Studio software to generate royalty-free soundtracks in just minutes. To share upload movies to YouTubeamp;#153; burn to Blu-ray Discamp;#153; or author DVD using beautifully designed themes or create custom menus and graphics. Exclusive Sony Show Me How interactive tutorials help you get started fast.Features:Standard or high-definition:Edit video in nearly any format including HDV and Sony AVCHD video. You can even work simultaneously with standard-definition and high-definition video and the same project.Create stunning HD movies:Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum software has everything needed to produce movies in spectacular high-definition. Editing HD is simple; just drop your clips on the timeline and go to work. Its high-performance engine is beyond fast see your changes happen in real time. Export movies in a variety of HD formats for easy sharing.New! Burn Blu-ray Discamp;#153; from timeline:Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum software provides functionality to burn a no-menu Blu-ray Discamp;#153; directly from the timeline. These discs are burned in BDMV format to BD-R BD-RE and DVD recordable media. Projects can be encoded as either MPEG-2 or AVC utilizing Dolby or PCM audio in stereo or 5.1 modes. Blu-ray Discs provide an alternative to streaming and file-based distribution for high-definition content. Beyond support for 25GB and 50GB Blu-ray Discs Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Edition supports burning BDMV on 4.7GB and 8.5GB standard DVD media providing a low-cost opportunity for users to distribute high-definition content with traditional DVD burners and mediaNew! Upload movies to YouTubeamp;#153;:Users can easily upload movies directly to YouTubeamp;#153; for online sharing. The Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum publishing feature uses a high-quality encoding process for optimal YouTube quality.New! Cinescore Studio plug-in for soundtrack creation:Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum includes the Cinescore Studio plug-in for quickly and easily creating customized royalty-free soundtracks. Cinescore Studio software uses royalty-free themes that can be modified to fit a movie`s length and mood with virtually infinite variations.New! New Project and Make Movie wizards:Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum software provides an updated wizard for creating new projects. They provide a simple approach to ensuring new projects are created correctly from the start. The new wizards help users ensure the project is delivered in the correct optimized format for its final destination. The new Make Movie wizard eliminates the guesswork for delivery and provides optimized files in a few simple clicks for Web DVD email or for publishing movies to YouTube.New! Enhanced Sony AVCHD support:New functionality includes importing files directly from Sony AVCHD camcorders and most other brands. In addition Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack supports editing all types of AVCHD camcorder files including files from the latest generation of 1920 x1080 AVCHD camcorders. Support for 1920 x 1080 ensures that the footage from the latest 1920 cameras can be edited natively on the timeline.New! Improved native HDV .m2t playback:Improved memory and playback performance allows users to edit HDV footage natively without the time-consuming process of converting to an intermediate file type such as Cineform. Smart rendering provides faster encoding for cuts-only projects or projects with minimal changes while providing less generation loss because video frames pass through the engine unaltered.Surround sound mixing and encoding:Import multichannel (5.1) source files from your camcorder includ