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GETTING STARTED CHP. 2
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
Format
.aaf Multimedia file format that can be exchanged across products and
platforms and retains metadata. Available only in the full version
of Vegas software.
CD Architect .cdp CD Architect (version 4.0 or higher) project file. Available only in
the full version of Vegas software.
CD Audio .cda Audio format used on compact discs.
Dialogic VOX ADPCM .vox The Dialogic audio format used in voice response systems. Available
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
corresponding timecode locations. Available only in the full version
of Vegas software.
GIF .gif 256 index color, lossless image and animation format widely used on
the Internet.
Intervoice .ivc A proprietary audio file format from Intervoice. Available only in
the full version of Vegas software.
JPEG .jpg True color, lossy Internet image format.
Macintosh® Audio
Interchange File Format
File
.aif Standard audio format developed by Apple® and used on Macintosh®
computers.
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 .mpg MPEGs, files compressed using a lossy audio/video compression
method, can be used with Vegas software.
MPEG Layer 3 .mp3 Highly compressed audio file.
Ogg Vorbis .ogg A patent-free audio encoding and streaming technology.
Photoshop .psd
Adobe® Photoshop® proprietary image format (flattened).
Portable Network Graphic .png True color or indexed color, lossy or lossless Internet image format.
QuickTime™ .mov, .qt QuickTime standard audio/video format.
Perfect Clarity Audio® .pca A proprietary lossless audio compression format from Sony Media
Software.
Shockwave Flash .swf Multimedia file format developed by Macromedia.
TARGA .tga True color, lossless image format that supports alpha channel
transparency.
TIFF .tif Tagged Image File Format, a common bitmap format. You must have
QuickTime installed to use TIFF files in Vegas software.
Vegas project file .veg File used for organizing media within a Vegas project. Available only
in the full version of Vegas software.
Vegas Movie Studio project
file
.vf File used for organizing media within a Vegas Movie Studio or Vegas
Movie Studio Platinum project.
Video for Windows® .avi Standard audio/video format used on Microsoft® Windows®-based
computers.
Wave 64™ .w64 Sony Media Software proprietary Wave64 audio file that does not
have a limited file size (unlike Windows WAV files that are limited to
~2GB).
Wave (Microsoft®) .wav Standard audio format used on Microsoft Windows-based computers.
Wave (Scott Studios) .wav Standard audio format used with Scott Studios systems.
Windows Bitmap .bmp Standard graphic format used on Microsoft Windows-based
computers.
Windows Media® Audio .wma The Microsoft audio-only format used to create files for streaming or
downloading via the Web.
Windows Media Format .wmv The Microsoft standard used for streaming audio and video media via
the Web.