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This week Sony updated its consumer video-editing application, Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11, with the ability to edit and preview 3D video content. The new version adds support for MVC and MPO 3D file formats, and lets digital movie editors preview 3D productions without the need for 3D display setups.

The software sells for $99.95 and is available at sonycreativesoftware.com. It still includes all the 2D high-definition and standard-definition video-editing capabilities. The software can output movies to formats accepted by devices and services such as the Sony PSP, Apple iPod, YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook.

"The easier it becomes to capture high-definition video on mobile devices, the more people are interested in editing that footage into movies that they can send to their family and friends," said Dave Chaimson, vice president of global marketing for Sony Creative Software. "Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 provides professional-level tools and expanded support that allow consumers to create videos and share them with others in their social networks."

Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 also adds audio event effects, a new title, and text plugin with animations, a new video effect plug-in SDK, and GPU-accelerated AVC encoding (using either Nvidia or AMD hardware), to speed work with the popular AVC HD video format. Dialogs for creating new movies, rendering, and movie creation have also been improved for better ease of use and productivity.

To learn more about Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 or purchase it online, head to Sony Creative Software's site. The software runs on Windows XP SP3 and later, and is available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese editions.