Vegas has certainly nabbed a decent market share since Sony bought the Sonic Foundry company a decade ago. Now it has just announced Sony Vegas Pro 11, wrapping the DVD Architect authoring package into the main bundle and adding a serious up updates and new features.

We haven't seen the program as yet - Sony's Australian Distributor, Melbourne b ased New Magic, tells us in will probably be late February beforre that happens, but we are told that the new version has:

• GPU Acceleration
• Enhancements to 3D Stereoscopic authoring
• Support for RAW files
• Closed captionining
• AN enhanced video plug in architecture
• New text tools
• New audio effects
• Enhanced image stabilisation
• Event synchronisation

No new pricing details are available as yet.

By David Hague

David is the owner and publisher of AusCam Online. He has a background in media dating back to 1979 when he first got involved with photojournalism in motorsport, and went from there into technology via a 5 year stint with Tandy Computers. Following that, he ran a software distribution company on the Gold Coast and was one of the first to recognise the potential of Microsoft Windows.

Moving back to WA, David wrote scripts for Computer Television for video training for the just released Windows and Office 95 among others, and was then lured to Sydney to create web sites for the newly commercial Internet in 1995, building hundreds of sites under contract to OzEmail including Coates Hire, Hertz Queensland, John Williamson, the NSW Board of Studies and many, many more.

He went back into full time journalism as the Managing Editor for Channel 7's 'Gadget Guy', Peter Blasina's publications VideoCamera and Pixelmag, before starting Australasian Camcorder magazine when these publications were shelved. He lives at Sydney's Avalon Beaches nearly on the ocean front with dog Budweiser and in his spare time is a nut for motor sport, road safety, fishing, science fiction - especially Dr Who - and technology.

David can be contacted via david@auscamonline.com