I love what it says here: Vegas 8b Platinum,
"Plug-In
An effect that can be added to the product to enhance the feature set. Vegas Movie Studio software supports all DirectX plug-ins. The built in EQ, Compression and Dithering effects are also considered plug-ins because they work in other DirectX-compatible applications."
how to load plug-in; kindly refer to http: sony blah blah

I'm still looking in the manual that came with this software and its not being helpful (( cry's ))