PC System Requirements
For Microsoft Windows | 7 | 8 | 10
64-bit-systems
All VEGAS programs are developed with user friendliness in mind so that all the basic features run smoothly and can be fully controlled, even on low-performance computers. The technical data for your computer can be found in the control panel of your operating system.
Processor: 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D; 8 cores recommended for 4K)
RAM: 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended; 16 GB recommended for 4K)
Graphics card: 512 MB GPU memory, Supported NVIDIA, AMD or Intel GPU (as listed below)
Hard drive space: 1.5 G hard-disk space for program installation
Solid-state disk (SSD) or high-speed multi-disk RAID for 4K media
Internet connection: Required for activating and validating the program.
Program requires one-time registration.
NVIDIA: Requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and driver 270.xx or later.
GeForce GPUs: GeForce GTX 4xx Series or higher (or GeForce GT 2xx Series or higher with driver 285.62 or later).
Quadro GPUs: Quadro 600 or higher (or Quadro FX 1700 or higher with driver 285.62 or later).
NVIDIA recommends NVIDIA Quadro for professional applications and recommends use of the latest boards based on the Fermi architecture.
AMD/ATI:
Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU and Catalyst driver 11.7 or later with a Radeon HD 57xx or higher GPU. If using a FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.85 or later is required.
Intel:
Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU such as HD Graphics 4000.
Intel Skylake or newer processor required for QSV accelerated 8-bit HEVC/AVC decoding and encoding, Intel
KabyLake or newer processor required for QSV accelerated 10-bit HEVC encoding and decoding
Supported import formats:
- Video codecs: AAC, AA3, AVI, BMP, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, HEVC, ProRes
- Image: BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WDP, WMPhoto, DDS, DPX, EXR
- Audio: AAC, AIFF, FLAC, LPEC, MP3, OGG, PCA, W64, WAV, WMA,
- Others: AAF, Premiere/After Effects (*.prproj), Final Cut Pro 7/ DaVinci Resolve (*.xml), Final Cut Pro X (*.fcpxml), EDL Text File (*.txt), Broadcast Wave Format, DVD Camcorder Disc, Closed Captioning
Supported export formats:
- Video formats: AAC, AA3, AVI, BMP, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, HEVC, ProRes
- Image: BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WDP, WMPhoto, DDS, DPX, EXR
- Audio: AAC, AIFF, FLAC, LPEC, MP3, OGG, PCA, W64, WAV, WMA,
- Others: VEGAS Project Archive (*.veg), Pro Tools AAF File (*.aaf), Media Composer AAF File (*.aaf), Premiere/After Effects (*.prproj), Final Cut Pro 7/DaVinci Resolve (*.xml), Final Cut Pro X (*.fcpxml), EDL Text File (*.txt), XDCAM Disc
