Movie Studio Platinum vs Vegas Pro - Product Comparison

See this guide for a detailed comparison between Movie Studio 13 Platinum - Steam Powered and Vegas Pro 13 Edit - Steam Powered

General Features

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Steam Powered	Movie Studio 13 Platinum	ㅤ Vegas Pro 13 Edit
User level	ㅤㅤㅤ Consumer	ㅤㅤㅤ Professional
Blu-Ray/DVD authoring software	ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤNone	ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤNone
Blu-Ray/DVD burning from timeline (no disc menus)
Simple Edit Mode
Advanced Edit Mode
Vegas Pro Connect iOS app
Sony Wireless Adapter proxy-first workflow
Multi-tool editing enhancements
Touch-enabled for touch PCs
Interactive tutorials
Custom window layouts
Includes FXHOME video effects
Additional third-party content	ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤNone	ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤNone

Video Features

ㅤㅤㅤ Steam Powered	Movie Studio 13 Platinum	ㅤ Vegas Pro 13 Edit
Number of video tracks	ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 20	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Unlimited
Video events per track	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Unlimited	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Unlimited
Advanced project archiving
Stereoscopic 3D editing
Masking	ㅤㅤㅤ Basic shapes	Custom shapes (Bézier tool)
Simultaneous video monitoring (local & external monitor)
Video effects	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Over 350	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Over 390
Color match
2D/3D video transitions	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Over 200	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Over 200
Credit rolls/text animation
Image stabilization
Video timestretching
Slideshow creator
Chroma keying
White Balance tool
Primary and Secondary color correction
Professional lighting effects
Video scopes: WFM, Vector, Parade, Histogram
ProType Titler
50p/60p project support
OpenFX plug-in support
32-bit float video processing
SD/HD-SDI support
Gigapixel image support
4K project support	ㅤㅤ Up to 3840x2160	ㅤㅤ Up to 4096x4096
Closed Captioning
Photoshop® PSD support

Audio Features

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Steam Powered	Movie Studio 13 Platinum	ㅤ Vegas Pro 13 Edit
Number of audio tracks	ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 20	ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Unlimited
Number of audio effects	ㅤOver 20 DirectX effects	ㅤㅤ Over 35 w/ 5.1 FX
Maximum bit depth/sample rate	ㅤㅤㅤ 16-bit/48kHz	ㅤㅤㅤ24-bit/192kHz
CALM Act compliant loudness meters
5.1 surround mixing with film-style panning
Dolby 5.1 surround & stereo AC-3 encoding
Gracenote CDDB support
Effects package folders
DirectX® plug-in support
VST plug-in support
DirectX/VST plug-in automation
Audio envelopes	ㅤㅤㅤ Volume/Pan	ㅤㅤ Volume/Pan/FX
ACID loop properties support
On-the-fly punch-in recording
Audio restoration tools
ASIO™ driver support
Zplane élastique timestretching
Audio-input record monitoring
Master, auxiliary, FX bus tracks
Multiple record takes
Red Book Audio CD mastering

Editing and Media Management

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ Steam Powered	Movie Studio 13 Platinum	ㅤ Vegas Pro 13 Edit
Project/Make Movie Wizards
Project interchange
Real-time nondestructive editing
Cursor object snapping across events and timeline
Envelope brush painting
Envelope automation recording
Smart Proxy editing
Keyboard trimming/event shuffling
Tape-style audio scrubbing
Project nesting
System-wide media management
Project media tagging
A/V sync detection & repair
Real-time event reverse
Video track motion control
3D track motion
Application scripting

Hardware/Capture/Export

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Steam Powered	Movie Studio 13 Platinum	ㅤ Vegas Pro 13 Edit
External control surface support	Export directly to PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) system	Render to Apple® iPhone®, iPad®, iPod® compatible formats	Print-to-tape tools	Smart Render	Smart Render for 4K XAVC Intra MXF files	Customizable render templates	Capture to compressed Sony MXF from SD/HD-SDI

Native Format Support

ㅤㅤㅤ Steam Powered	Movie Studio 13 Platinum	ㅤ Vegas Pro 13 Edit
DSLR (.mov) files
DV/HDV/AVCHD/NXCAM
H.264 AVC/AAC MP4
HDCAM SR
MPEG-1, -2, -4 import/encoding
MVC and MPO 3D
Panasonic P2
Windows Media® 11
4K XAVC
4K XAVC S
XDCAM Optical
XDCAM EX
BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF, WDP image sequences
OpenEXR and DPX image sequences
WAV
Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) .wav files
FLAC
MP3

[Edelplastic | Gamazine.de]

One Feature you forgott:

Crashes not fixable -> Movie Studio & Vegas Pro 13..14..

[Grumpykitten]

I like turtles

[cyboroz]

Movie studio image stabilization is useless.

[Bean]

My only major complain is the lack of custom mask shapes in Movie studio, for some of the things I've been doing it's been a bit of a hinderance. For the price it's fantastic otherwise.

[MarkTheFreak]

..i still like studio 13, it's really easy and good. Thanks Sony!