Top 10 Best Vegas Pro Plugins That You Should Know

Benjamin Arango

Mar 27, 2024• Proven solutions

Sony (Magix) Vegas pro is a video editor designed for non-linear editing systems. Earlier it was owned by Sony but now the owner of this video editing software is Magix Software GmbH. If you want to make the best use of it, you must install plugins in your system.

A plugin is an element of software whose function is to add new features/effects to an existing application. Though Vegas Pro has its own video effects and built-in plugin, the new plugin will make your experience more productive. Here is a list of top 8 best plugins/effects pack that is compatible with Vegas Pro.

• Part 1: Top 8 Best Vegas Pro Plugins
• Part 2: FAQ about Vegas Pro Plugins

Part 1: Top 10 Best Vegas Pro Plugins

1. Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) for OFX

This plugin has more than 250 filters and tools for professionally-designed visual effects, motion graphics, and finishing. There are also thousands of customizable presets thus you can choose any preset according to the requirement of your project. The other features are Dazzling light effect, Professional chroma key compositing, Audio-driven effects creation, and famous film effects.

What’s new in BCC 10:

1. Transitions:

• BCC cross Zoom blends zoom, glow and dissolve into a single transition.
• A new fresh and organic look is conveyed by BCC Cross Melt.

2. Effects:

• BCC Video Glitch reproduces the distressed appearance of compression artifacts, corrupt digital video, and signal loss.
• The naturalistic and organic “in-camera” light and exposure effects are also added by BCC Light Leaks.

3. 15-Day Free Trial

2. Film Looks Free

Film Looks, a visual effects plugin is extremely useful for video editors as it will make their projects attention-grabbing and extra-ordinary. It has a collection of professional styles and ready-to-use presets. The other features are:

• Color grading: The grading presets along with film grain plates will give your video a filmy look. Thus, you can use this plugin with great ease.
• Unlimited Custom presets: The color corrections and adjustments can be saved with Film Looks thus you can use it later on also whenever you need it. The free version gives you permission to save 10 custom presets whereas the paid one allows you to save them in an unlimited amount.
• Fully customizable: The OFX video filter forms the base of all cinematic looks thus it will surely provide you the advantages of GPU accelerated video processing and executing.

3. Boris Graffiti

The sophisticated title animation can be created conveniently by installing Boris Graffiti. The key features of this plugin are text on a path, vector paint system, 3D text with materials, reflection mapping, textures, and lights. The other features are:

• 35 filter effects: There are 35 filter effects in Boris Graffiti such as particles, radial blurs, procedural generators like clouds, snow, rain, etc. The new light ray filters generate amazing volumetric lighting effects such as rings, radiant, and rays.
• 16-bit color: You can produce more precise color correction and smoother gradients with 16-bit deep-color via an expanded color palette.
• 15-day free trial

4. Boris RED

It is visual effects and integrated 3D titling software having an easy-to-use custom interface. Motion tracking, standalone render engine, optical image stabilization, image restoration and retouching are some features of this plug-in.

What’s new in Boris RED V5.5.2:

• Multi-filter controls allow filtering compositions by FEC or BCC filters or RED titles independently of the background video track in Avid hosts.
• Automatic production of background video reference track and text track speeds titling workflow in Avid hosts.
• 15-day free trial

5. Pixelan 3D Six Pack

It is one of the best Sony Vegas plugins that adds 250 + wonderful 3D transitions to Vegas Pro. It offers various types of transitions such as:

Particle 3D Video transitions:

There are realistic 51 flowing particle transitions and trails, fountain particle pours that you must explore.

EnergyFX™ 3D video transitions:

You will also get 30 naturalistic video transitions that utilize organic progressions such as gravity, wind, etc to disclose the next scene.

6. PowerProduction Software Martini

If you want to visualize your upcoming shots then you can go for this software. There are hundreds of pre-laid out, pre-designed shots thus you can choose any shot of your choice.

What’s new in Martini 3

• Resizable Interface: It will aid you in expanding your workspace thus you will get more flexibility and power to pre-visualize your scenes.
• add-on props, locations, characters, and more: In addition to stunning graphics, there are also more than 20 new add-on libraries. The add-on prop libraries will provide a detailed view of your scenes and shots whereas add-on character libraries will give you options of combining various artistic styles, ethnicities, and shots.
• 15-day free trial

7. Pixelan DissolveMaster

As its name suggests, it has the ability to develop dissolves and fades of all types such as flash dissolves, blur dissolves, film dissolve, etc. You can find almost 500 presets in this plugin. The dissolve softness can be adjusted in a way that you want. It offers the following features:

• Huge technical support
• You can redo/undo all changes
• Your favorite effects can be saved
• Select in an animated effects browser window

8. Boris FX

It is a great plugin for adding video effects to your clip. There are over 220 filters including filters from FEC and BCC thus it is a complete image processing filter suite. The features of Borix FX are the following:

• Corner pinning, image stabilization, and motion tracking
• Spline based masking system
• Downstream and upstream masking
• 3D shapes such as cubes, spheres, and cylinders
• Hundreds of preset animations in the library browser
• 15-day free trial

9. Vegasaur Toolkit

Vegasaur Toolkit is a great to use Vegas Pro plugins that can save your lots of times by batch rendering. If you want to import videos quickly, you can import media files from folders or separate videos. If you are running big file, you can also use proxy to edit videos easily. This Vegas plugins is worth considering.

• Various tools to make effects
• Spline based masking system
• Automatic backup to save your projects

10. NewBlueFX Elements 3 Ultimate

You can use NewBlueFX Elements to make chrome key effects with an easy to use controls. You can also outline glows to make subjects special. For Alpha Blend, you can change object color.

• Make live background with the existing videos
• You can also use 3D position to make mirrored reflections
• Split your video easily by dragging

Part 2: FAQ about Vegas Pro Plugins

1. How do I add plugins to Sony Vegas?

Open the Video Effects folder while you are in Sony Vegas pro. Plugins can be selected, then dragged and dropped onto the timeline. When you let go, a settings box will open that causally relates to the plugin itself. You should be able to tune up the color, alter different aspects of the plugin. When you are initially downloading the plugin, you should be able to add it to the designated plugin folder, which is in the Sony Vegas Pro folder. You will be able to find this on your C Drive.

2. How do you get free Sapphire plugins on Sony Vegas?

To get free Sapphire Plugins in Sony Vegas pro. Plugins can be found at this address. Open the link and skip the ads. You can download it from here and run it on your device. Unzip and extract the Sapphire plugin once downloaded, it should take a few minutes. Click to complete the installation, making sure you run as the administrator.

The patch at the link above contains a password that should get you through the Sapphire registration process.

3. How do I use preset manager in Sony Vegas?

First of all, find and download the preset Manager pack. Once done, select install and wait until it has completed. Don’t open Sony Vegas until it is fully installed, or it won’t work. Once you get the notification to say that Preset Manager is installed, open up the preset file that has appeared. It will open the manager and copy the data to the system. Once you click this button, you can access the pre-setting’s in the bottom right corner of your Sony Vegas screen. Select to view plugins, and you should have access to everything you need.

Conclusion

Above are the 8 best Vegas plug-ins. Which one do you like? Leave a comment to let us know.

Benjamin Arango

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