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Selecting media
Vegas software supports a wide range of media file types. You may select any of the media file types listed below to add to your project.
Format | Extension | Definition |
Advanced Authoring | .aaf | Multimedia file format that can be exchanged across products and |
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CD Architect | .cdp | CD Architect (version 4.0 or higher) project file. Available only in |
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| the full version of Vegas software. |
CD Audio | .cda | Audio format used on compact discs. |
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Dialogic VOX ADPCM | .vox | The Dialogic audio format used in voice response systems. Available |
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| only in the full version of Vegas software. |
Edit Decision List | .txt | A text file containing a master video recording’s list of edits and |
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| corresponding timecode locations. Available only in the full version |
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GIF | .gif | 256 index color, lossless image and animation format widely used on |
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| the Internet. |
Intervoice | .ivc | A proprietary audio file format from Intervoice. Available only in |
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| the full version of Vegas software. |
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JPEG | .jpg | True color, lossy Internet image format. |
Macintosh® Audio | .aif | Standard audio format developed by Apple® and used on Macintosh® |
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.mpg | MPEGs, files compressed using a lossy audio/video compression | |
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| method, can be used with Vegas software. |
MPEG Layer 3 | .mp3 | Highly compressed audio file. |
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Ogg Vorbis | .ogg | A |
Photoshop | .psd | Adobe® Photoshop® proprietary image format (flattened). |
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Portable Network Graphic | .png | True color or indexed color, lossy or lossless Internet image format. |
QuickTime™ | .mov, .qt | QuickTime standard audio/video format. |
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Perfect Clarity Audio® | .pca | A proprietary lossless audio compression format from Sony Media |
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Shockwave Flash | .swf | Multimedia file format developed by Macromedia. |
TARGA | .tga | True color, lossless image format that supports alpha channel |
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| transparency. |
TIFF | .tif | Tagged Image File Format, a common bitmap format. You must have |
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| QuickTime installed to use TIFF files in Vegas software. |
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Vegas project file | .veg | File used for organizing media within a Vegas project. Available only |
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| in the full version of Vegas software. |
Vegas Movie Studio project | .vf | File used for organizing media within a Vegas Movie Studio or Vegas |
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| Movie Studio Platinum project. |
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Video for Windows® | .avi | Standard audio/video format used on Microsoft® |
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Wave 64™ | .w64 | Sony Media Software proprietary Wave64 audio file that does not |
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| have a limited file size (unlike Windows WAV files that are limited to |
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| ~2GB). |
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Wave (Microsoft®) | .wav | Standard audio format used on Microsoft |
Wave (Scott Studios) | .wav | Standard audio format used with Scott Studios systems. |
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Windows Bitmap | .bmp | Standard graphic format used on Microsoft |
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Windows Media® Audio | .wma | The Microsoft |
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| downloading via the Web. |
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Windows Media Format | .wmv | The Microsoft standard used for streaming audio and video media via |
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