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3ChapterOverview

1. Intro2. Tuto3. Gett4. Basi5. Adv6. Wor7. Wor8. Add9. Usin10. Re11. Bu12. Us13. Us14. Ad15. Sa16. CuTroubGlossaIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19rial and Sample Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43ing Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81c Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103anced Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135king with Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151king with Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163ing Audio Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179g the Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

cording Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199rning Audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209ing Advanced Video Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219ing Video FX, Compositing, and Masks . . . . . 247ding Video Transitions and Motion . . . . . . . . . 267ving, Rendering, and Printing Projects . . . . . . 291stomizing Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309leshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325ry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

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Videcome to Sonic Foundry Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

tem requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

nical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

ut this version of Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

lling Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

istration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

g online help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

cessing help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

rview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

ain window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

olbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

me display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

ler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

arker bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

mmand bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

layout bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

ack list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ack view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

ansport bar controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

atus bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

rub control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

indow docking area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

yboard command reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

rsor indications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

io Signal Flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

o Signal Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

62. Tutorial and Sample Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43Tutorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Installing the tutorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

1. Voiceover narration (01_voiceover.veg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

2. Voiceover editing (02_editing.veg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Background video (04_background.veg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Overlay titles (05_overlay.veg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Pan/Crop motion (06_panning.veg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Fades (07_fades.veg). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Track Motion (08_trackmotion.veg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Velocity (09_velocity.veg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

. Rendering the project as an AVI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

ple projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

dio mix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

eb spot with captioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

nning with still images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

mpositing with masks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

ack motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

ing Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81ting projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

tting video properties based on a media file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

ving a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

naming a project (using Save As) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

ing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

lecting media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

eviewing a media file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

ing the Media Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

ding media to the timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

king with events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

7Understanding files and events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Moving events along the timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Working with tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using the track view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Using the track header. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Viewing playbacks and previews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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Sling playback from within Vegas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

rubbing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

eviewing to media player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

erendering video previews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

dering a Vegas project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

eating a movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

ic Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103ing around. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

oving the cursor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

anging focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

ing selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

lecting multiple events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

odifying events in selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

lecting a time range. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

oping playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

lecting events and a time range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

ing and ripple editing events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

pying events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

tting events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

sting events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

plicating events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

erting empty events and time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

imming events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

litting events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

ipping and sliding events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

8Deleting events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Crossfading events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Using automatic crossfades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Manually setting a crossfade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Changing crossfade curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Sliding a crossfade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

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ing undo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

ing redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

earing the edit history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

ing project markers and regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

orking with markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

orking with regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

orking with command markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

orking with CD layout markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

g an external sound editing program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

tting up an audio editing program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

pening an audio editor from Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

anced Editing Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135pping events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

abling and disabling snapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

antizing to frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

ing the event snap offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

apping to the cursor or a selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

shifting audio events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

e compressing/stretching events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

e compressing/stretching video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

king with takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

ding takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

lecting takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

9Previewing and selecting takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Using takes to copy event attributes to a new event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Deleting takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Working with take names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Using the Trimmer window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Opening a file in the Trimmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

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aking selections in the Trimmer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

ding selections to the timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

ding and saving regions and markers to a media file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

ening a file in an external sound editor from the Trimmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

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ewing the Edit Details window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

stomizing the Edit Details window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

king with Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151ing event switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

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ert phase (audio only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

rmalize (audio only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

aintain aspect ratio (video only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

sample (video only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

ply interlace filter (video only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

essing event properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

sting audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

g audio event envelopes (ASR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

tting an audio events volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

tting an events fade in and out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

g video event envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

ing opacity envelopes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

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Using velocity envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Grouping events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Creating a new group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Adding an event to an existing group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Removing events from a group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Clearing a group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

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sabling grouping temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

king with Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163aging tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

ding an empty track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

plicating a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

leting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

ming or renaming a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

anizing tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

ordering tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

anging track color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

anging track height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

g track headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

ing the volume fader (audio only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

ing the multipurpose slider (audio only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

ing the composite level slider (video only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

ase inverting a track (audio only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

uting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

uting all audio or video tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

loing a track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

ing default track properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

king with track envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

ding track envelopes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

ding track envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

moving track envelopes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

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Using the Envelope Edit tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Locking envelopes to events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Rendering to a new track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

8. Adding Audio Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Using audio effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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eating a plug-in chain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

ding plug-ins to a plug-in chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

ving customized plug-in presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

ranging the order of plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

passing plug-ins on the chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

moving plug-ins from a chain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

ving plug-in chains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

iting saved plug-in chains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

ganizing your plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

lying non-real-time event effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

g the Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189g the Mixer window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

ewing the Mixer window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

ing the Mixer toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

ing the Mixer Preview fader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

g busses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

ding busses to the project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

leting busses from the project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

uting busses to hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

orking with busses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

gning audio tracks to busses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

justing a bus send level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

gning audio tracks to assignable effects chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

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10. Recording Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199Setting up your equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Basic setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

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tup with digital multitrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

aring to record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

ming the track for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

lecting recording settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

ing the metronome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

sabling playback during recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

rding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

cording into an empty track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

cording into a time selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

cording into an event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

cording into an event with a time selection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

iggering from MIDI Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

king with multiple recorded takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

cifying where recordings are stored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

anging where recorded files are stored when arming a track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

anging where recorded files are stored when starting to record . . . . . . . . . . . 208

anging where recorded files are stored in the Project Properties dialog . . . . 208

rning Audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209erstanding track-at-once and disc-at-once. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

ack-at-once. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

sc-at-once (Single Session or Red Book). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

erstanding tracks and indices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

ing up to burn audio CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

ewing the ruler and time display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

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Setting project properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Setting preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Importing CD Architect files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Creating audio CD layout projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Adding media as CD tracks to a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Marking tracks in an existing project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

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vigating to and selecting tracks and indices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

oving track or index markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

naming track or index markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

leting track or index markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

iting markers using the Edit Details window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

pying a track list from the Edit Details window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

ing CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

rning single tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

rning a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

ing Advanced Video Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219ping video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

opping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

tating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

ding animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

king with still images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

eating still images for use in Vegas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

pturing a timeline snapshot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

eating a slide show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

ting titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

eating titles from images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

ding titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

ing closed captioning to Windows Media Video (WMV) files . . 227

ding closed captioning line-by-line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

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Adding closed captioning from a script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Displaying closed captioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Using the Video Preview window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Using the Video Preview window shortcut menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Identifying safe areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Optimizing previews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

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ing histograms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

mpling video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

g Edit Decision Lists (EDL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

eating an EDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

ening an EDL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

king in DV format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

lecting source media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

tting project properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

lecting templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

minating out-of-range colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

ifying video properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

odifying project video properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

odifying media file properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

odifying output properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

ing Video FX, Compositing, and Masks. . . . . . .247g video effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

ding a video effects plug-in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

orking with video effects plug-in chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

odifying a video effects plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

ving custom plug-in settings as a preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

ing keyframe animation with plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

g generated media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

ding a generated media event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

plicating a generated media event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

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Understanding the parent/child track relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Selecting compositing modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Creating masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Creating image masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Creating video masks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

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romakeying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

ding Video Transitions and Motion . . . . . . . . . 267erstanding basic transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

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g transition effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

ding a transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

ding a transition to the end of an event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

derstanding track layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

nverting a cut to a transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

eviewing a transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

odifying a transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

ving custom settings as a preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

g keyframe animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

derstanding the keyframe controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

ding keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

leting keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

vigating in the keyframe controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

odifying keyframes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

orking with keyframes in track view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

ple uses for keyframe animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

imating event panning and cropping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

imating video effects plug-ins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

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Adding track motion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Using the track motion shortcut menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Controlling the track motion workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Using keyframes in track motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Creating a picture-in-picture effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

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tating the overlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

ving, Rendering, and Printing Projects. . . . . . . .291ing a project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

eating a copy of a project (using Save As...). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

ving a project with media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

tosaving a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

dering a project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

cting a file format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

ore about the MPEG format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

ore about the Wave64 and Perfect Clarity Audio formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

ore about video formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

tomizing the rendering process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

stomizing the Render As settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

ving custom settings as a template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

ting custom rendering settings for AVI files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

oject tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

deo tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

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ting with Video Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

ting to DV tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

tablishing a connection to the recording device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

inting to DV tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

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nging grid spacing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

g the Time Display window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

anging the Time Display settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

anging the Time Display colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

tting the Time Display to monitor MIDI timecode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

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deo tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

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mmary tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

dio CD tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

ing Vegas preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

neral tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

deo tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

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Settings tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

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deo device tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

leshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325bleshooting resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

mon questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

hy are some of my DirectX plug-ins not working correctly?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

hy do I hear gaps in my audio playback? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

hy do mono events increase 6 dB when panning a track hard?. . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

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Why cant I work with footage captured using an MJPEG card?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Trouble-free video: software solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Trouble-free video: hardware solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Video subsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

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U and RAM (memory) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

io proxy files (.sfap0). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

rlacing and field order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

ecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

ecode in Vegas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

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versions can be immediately upgraded to a more advanced version over the Internet. the Help menu, choose Instant Upgrade to purchase a license and unlock these more rful features.

manual covers all of the features available in all of the various versions of Sonic Foundry . Since different versions have different features, more advanced features available only in n versions of Vegas are marked with a special icon.

g Vegas

sert the Vegas CD-ROM. The Vegas Installation screen appears (if CD-ROM AutoPlay enabled).

CD-ROM AutoPlay is disabled, click the button and choose Run. In the Run ndow that appears, type the CD-ROM drives letter and add :\setup.exe. Click the OK tton to start the installation.

ick Install Software. The installation process begins.

llow the screen prompts and enter the necessary information when required.

the last screen prompt, click to conclude the installation.

te: Vegas uses the Windows Installer for versions of Windows (e.g., 98SE, ME). gas installs the Windows Installer and then s you to restart your system.

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Registration

The registration dialog that appears when you start Vegas allows you to quickly and easily register:

Register online - instantly registers the product over the Internet. Register from another computer - if the computer Vegas is installed on does not have an

Internet connection, but you have another computer that does. Re Re

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gister over the phone - call Sonic Foundry to register manually.gister later - allows you to continue using Vegas for a limited time without registering.

w the instructions in the registration dialog to complete your Vegas registration.

nline help

s includes online help. To view the online help, you must have Internet Explorer 4.0 or r loaded on your system (IE5.0 is included on the Vegas CD-ROM).

sing help

online help is available in two forms: in a main help window or Whats This? help ow. Both forms are available via the keyboard ( ) or by clicking the Help menu.

help window

main help window is accessed either by choosing Contents and Index from the Help or by pressing . This window has four tabs that you can use to find the information

you need.

Contents tab provides a list of available help topics. Click a closed book ( ) to open the , and then on a topic page ( ).

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The Index tab provides a complete listing of the help topics available. Scroll through the list of available topics or type a word in the Type in the keyword to find box to quickly locate topics related to that word. Select the topic and click the button.

The Search tab allows you to enter a keyword and display all of the topics in the online help that contain the keyword you have entered. Type a keyword in the Type in the word(s) to search for box and click the button. Select the topic from the list and click the

button.

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Favorites tab allows you to keep topics that you revisit often in a separate folder. To add ic to your favorites, click the button on the Favorites tab.

ts This? help

ts This? help allows you to view pop-up descriptions of Vegas menus, buttons, and g boxes.

ick the question mark ( ) in the upper right-hand corner of the dialog box or program rkspace. Alternately, you can choose What's This? from the Help menu or press

.

e cursor changes to a question mark icon: ( ).

ick an item in the programs interface.

manual

e is a PDF version of the manual available on the Vegas CD-ROM. To view this al, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (also included on the Vegas CD-ROM). e read the vegas_readme.doc for more information on the latest updates and changes.

on the Web

tional Vegas help and information is available on the Sonic Foundry Web site. From elp menu, choose Sonic Foundry on the Web to view a listing of Web pages pertaining gas and Sonic Foundry.

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Overview

Vegas is designed to be an easy-to-use program with many tools that provide power and flexibility when creating and working with multimedia files. Many Vegas operations, menu items, and shortcut keys are consistent with other popular Windows software applications. The following sections are a graphical tour of the Vegas workspace.

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is the window that appears when you open Vegas. The work area is subdivided into primary areas: the track header, the track view (or timeline), and the window docking

ull version of Vegas Video has many advanced video editing features, as pictured above. Other ns of Vegas have more limited video capabilities. Please see the README file for more ation.

Marker barRuler

Track view

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Toolbar

The toolbar allows you to quickly access the most commonly used functions and features in Vegas. From the Options menu, choose Customize Toolbar to specify which buttons are displayed.

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ime Display window reflects the cursors position on the timeline and the end point of e selection. The Time Display windows time settings may be customized, including time the window displays and color usage. For more information, see Using the Time ay window on page 311.

Time Display window may be moved from its docked position above the track headers at on the Vegas workspace. In addition, the Time Display window may be docked in indow docking area.

Create new project Enable automatic crossfades

Open existing project Enable ripple edits

Save project Lock envelopes

Open project properties Ignore event grouping

Cut selected events or time range Normal edit tool

Copy selected events or time range Envelope edit tool

Paste items from clipboard into project Selection edit tool

Undo Zoom edit tool

Redo Whats This? help

Enable snapping to grid lines

d position Floating window Docked in window docking area

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Ruler

The ruler is the timeline for your project. You may specify how the ruler measures time: seconds, measures and beats, frames, etc. For more information, see Changing the ruler format on page 310.

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marker bar is the area where markers and regions may be placed, named, and positioned the projects timeline. These informational tags can serve as cues or reminders ighting important events in your project. For more information, see Adding project ers and regions on page 125.

and bar

command bar displays when you add a command to your projects. Commands add data to media files to create effects such as closed captioning. For more information, see g project markers and regions on page 125.

out bar

CD layout bar displays tracks and indices in an audio CD layout project for disc-at-once O) CD burning. For more information, see Burning Audio CDs on page 209.

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Track list

This area identifies the track order in your project and contains controls used to determine track compositing and mixing. For more information, see Using the track header on page 96.

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ple video tracks, compositing, and effects are only available in the full version of Vegas Video.

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rranging and editing is done in the track view or timeline. This area contains all of a cts events. For more information, see Using the track view on page 94.

ort bar controls

transport bar contains the playback and cursor positioning buttons frequently used working on and previewing your project.

Record into track Pause project playback

Loop playback Stop playback

Play from beginning of project Move cursor to start of project

Play project from cursor position Move cursor to end of project

Track number

Video tracks

Audio track

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Status bar

The status bar is located at the bottom of the main program window and displays information about roughly how much space is left on your computer to record audio (Record Time). During the rendering processes, the left side of the status bar also contains information about the progress of the render.

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Video Preview window also has its own status bar that displays project specific mation. For more information, see Using the Video Preview window on page 230.

control

scrub control is used to play your project rd or backward for editing purposes. You

adjust playback speed by setting the speed ol marker located beneath the scrub ol. For more information, see Scrubbing on 100.

w docking area

area allows you to keep frequently used windows available, but out of the way while you orking with a project. To dock a window, drag it to the docking area. Windows can be ed next to each other, subdividing the docking area, or they can be docked in a stack. n stacked, each window has a tab at the bottom with its name on it. Click the windows bring it to the top.

the handle on the left side of a docked window to remove a window from the docking and float it.

Set play-

Drag either forward

back speed

or backward for playback

Drag the handle away from thedocking area to float the window.

Close windowExpand window

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Explorer window - Alt+1

The media Explorer window is similar to the Windows Explorer. Use the Explorer window to select media files to drag to the project timeline or add to the Media Pool. You can also use the Explorer to perform common file management tasks such as creating folders, renaming files and folders, deleting files and folders. Use the Start Preview ( ) and Auto Preview ( ) buttons to preview files before adding them to the project.

Trim

The the Tdragg

Select Preview selectedor foldINTRODUCTION

mer window - Alt+2

Trimmer window is a good place to edit any media file. When a media file is placed in rimmer window, you may take portions of the file and place them on separate tracks by ing and dropping. For more information, see Using the Trimmer window on page 142.

drive media files beforeplacing themin the project.

er

Select media to place in the project by draggingand dropping or double-clicking.

Add media to the Media Poolby right-clicking a file andchoosing Add to Media Poolfrom the shortcut menu.

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Mixer window - Alt+3

The Mixer window gives you access to your projects audio properties, bus assignments, output levels, and plug-in chains. For more information, see Using the Mixer window on page 189.

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Details window - Alt+4

window serves as a highly detailed and customizable database of all of the events in a ct. The database can be organized and sorted according to a large number of attributes. ore information, see Using the Edit Details window on page 147.

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Media Pool - Alt +5

The Media Pool is used to organize the media files that are being used by a project. The information about these files is displayed in a highly flexible database that can be instantly sorted. The Media Pool can also be used to apply effects and plug-ins to media files and can be used to set the specific properties of these files. For more information, see Using the Media Pool on page 85.

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Preview window - Alt+6

window displays a projects video during project editing and playback. For more ation, see Using the Video Preview window on page 230.

appears duringct playback or asursor is moved g editing.

Right-click to change VideoPreview settings

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Transitions window - Alt+7

The Transitions window contains all of the transitions available in Vegas. The thumbnails display animated examples of each transition. Transitions can be dragged from this window to the crossfade between two video events or to the fade-in or fade-out region of a video event. For more information, see Understanding basic transitions on page 267.

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o FX window - Alt+8

Video FX window contains the video effects available in Vegas. The thumbnails display ated examples of each plug-in preset. You can drag plug-ins from this window to an t, track, or to the Video Preview window (video output effects). For more information, sing video effects on page 247.

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Text/Backgrounds window - Alt+9

The Text/Backgrounds window contains the different media generators provided in Vegas. Media generators make it easy to create events containing text, credit rolls, test patterns, color gradients, and solid color backgrounds. You can drag a media generator to the timeline to create a new generated media event.For more information, see Using generated media on page 253.

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-Ins window - Ctrl+Alt+1

window organizes all of the plug-ins available in Vegas, including video and audio s, media generators, and transitions. The plug-ins, which are organized in a folder

ture, can be dragged into the project. For more information, see Using audio effects on page r Using video effects on page 247.

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Keyboard command reference

Project file commands

These commands refer to the overall project.

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ow view commands

e commands display the dockable windows included with Vegas.

ack and preview commands

e commands refer to playing back and previewing your project.

existing project or media file Ctrl+Oroject Ctrl+S

projects properties Alt+Enter

iption Keys Description Keys to track view Alt+0 Transitions Alt+7rer Alt+1 Video FX Alt+8

er Alt+2 Text/Backgrounds Alt+9Alt+3 Plug-ins Ctrl+Alt+1

etails Alt+4 Next window F6 or Ctrl+Tab Pool Alt+5 Previous window Shift+F6 or Ctrl+Shift+Tab

Preview Alt+6 Toggle focus between track list and track view

Tab

iption Keys Description Keysstop playback Spacebar Play back from any window Ctrl+Spacebar or F12layback Esc Scrub playback J/K/L (pg. 100)d playback mode Q Build dynamic RAM preview Shift+B (pg. 232)

Enter Preview in Player Ctrl+Shift+Md Ctrl+R Prerender video Shift+M

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Edit commands

These commands refer to the event editing that you can use while you are working on a project.

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Description Keys Description KeysUndo Ctrl+Z or

Alt+BackspacePaste insert Ctrl+Shift+V

Redo Ctrl+Shift+Z or Delete selection Delete

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Copy s

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Paste

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or placement commands

e commands refer to cursor navigation with in the track view.

Ctrl+Ylection Ctrl+X or

Shift+DeleteSplit event(s) S

election Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert

Trim/crop selected events Ctrl+T

from clipboard Ctrl+V orShift+Insert

Open in sound editor Ctrl+E

repeat from clipboard Ctrl+B

iption Keys Description Keysbeginning of selection (if no selection)

Home Move left to marker(s) Ctrl+Left Arrow

end of selection or view selection)

End Move right to marker(s) Ctrl+Right Arrow

beginning of project Ctrl+Home or W Move left to event edit points including fade edges

Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow

end of project Ctrl+End or E Move right to event edit points including fade edges

Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow

left by grid marks Page Up Nudge cursor on timeline Left or Right Arrowright by grid marks Page Down Move one frame Alt+Left or Right Arrow

Ctrl+G Jump to next audio CD track region or index

Period

to Marker # 0-9 keys (not numeric keypad)

Jump to previous audio CD track region or index

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to opposite side of ion

Numeric keypad 5

Jump to next audio CD track region

Ctrl+Period

r in View \ Jump to previous audio CD track region

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Time selection commands

These commands refer to creating time selections or preview ranges.

Note: Many of the preceding cursor placement commands, when combined with the Shift key, are also selection commands.

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commands

e commands refer to magnification in the timeline and minimizing/maximizing ent areas of the window.

iption Keysselect to event edge Ctrl+Shift+Alt+ Left or Right Arrower previous selection areas Backspace left by grid marks Shift+Page Up right by grid marks Shift+Page Downin/out locations I (in) and O (out)e time selection while dragging on an event Ctrl+Shift+drag with moused selection one frame Shift+Alt+Left or Right Arrow to next audio CD track marker Shift+. (period) to previous audio CD track marker Shift+, (comma) location for end of selection Ctrl+Shift+G

iption Keys Description Keysse track height Ctrl+Shift+Up Arrow Zoom in on audio waveforms Shift+Up Arrowase track height Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow Zoom out on audio waveforms Shift+Down Arrowize all tracks ` Zoom out Ctrl+Down Arrowack height smaller Shift+` Zoom in Ctrl+Up Arrowack heights to default size Ctrl+` Show/hide window docking area F11 in time (incremental) Up Arrow Show/hide track header area Shift+F11 out time (incremental) Down Arrow Show/hide window docking area

and track header areaCtrl+F11

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Event commands

These commands apply to selected events.

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Description Keys Description KeysMove selected event(s) right one pixel

Right Arrow numeric keypad 6

Move selected event(s) right on grid

Ctrl+Right Arrow numeric keypad 6

Move selected event(s) left one pixel

Left Arrow numeric keypad 4

Move selected event(s) left on grid

Ctrl+Left Arrow numeric keypad 4

Move one trMove down

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t editing commands

e commands apply to event editing.

t selection commands

e commands apply to selecting events.

selected event(s) up ack

Up Arrow numeric keypad 8

Select next take T

selected event(s) one track

Down Arrow numeric keypad 2

Select previous take Shift+T

iption Keys Description Keysove media within

without moving the Alt+drag inside the event

Trim Adjacent: trims selected event and adjacent event simultaneously

Ctrl+Alt+drag edge of event

im: moves the media he edge as it is ed

Alt+drag edge of event Edge trim either audio or video of grouped events independently

Alt+drag edge of event

trims both ends of simultaneously

Ctrl+Alt+drag middle of event

Stretch (compress) the media in the event while trimming

Ctrl+drag edge of event

rossfade: moves ade

Ctrl+Alt+drag over a crossfade

iption Keys selection Shift+click range of objectsle selection Ctrl+click individual objectsall Ctrl+Act all Ctrl+Shift+A

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Track commands

These commands refer to editing functions related to the tracks in your project.

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Description Keys Description KeysNew audio track Ctrl+Q Group selected events GNew video track Ctrl+Shift+Q Remove event(s) from group UEnable/disable snapping F8 Clear group (without deleting events) Ctrl+UQuantize to frames Alt+F8 Select all events in group Shift+GSnap Snap RippleAuto NormaNext tPrevioRendeInsert

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mer commands

e commands apply to the Trimmer window.

te: Many of the shortcuts that apply to the eline (e.g., cursor placement, selection

mmands, etc.) also work in the Trimmer.

to markers Shift+F8 Insert/show/hide track-volume envelope Vto grid Ctrl+F8 Remove track-volume envelope Shift+V edit mode Ctrl+L Insert/show/hide track-panning envelope P

crossfade mode X Remove track-panning envelope Shift+Pl edit tool Ctrl+D Insert region Rool D Insert marker Mus tool Shift+D Insert command Cr to new track Ctrl+M Insert audio CD track region N transition Number Pad: /

, *, -Insert audio CD track index Shift+N

iption Keys Description Keysedia From Cursor A Toggle selected stream: audio/video/both Tabedia to Cursor Shift+A Next media file in Trimmer Ctrl+Tab

from Cursor to start of t

Ctrl+Shift+A Previous media file in Trimmer Ctrl+Shift+Tab

fer time selection from ne to Trimmer after r

T Transfer time selection from timeline to Trimmer before cursor

Shift+T

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Miscellaneous commands

These commands allow you to move items, access help, and refresh the screen.

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Description Keys Description KeysOnline help F1 Shortcut menu Shift+F10Whats This? help Shift+F1 Rebuild audio peaks F5Change relative keyframe spacing

Alt+drag keyframes

Move both region markers or audio CD track region markers

Alt+drag region marker

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se scroll-wheel shortcuts

fine fader adjustments Ctrl+drag fader

iption Keys in/out on timeline Default mouse wheel behavior in/out in Event Pan/Crop or Track n windows

Default mouse wheel behavior

al scroll Ctrl+wheelntal scroll Shift+wheel

the cursor in small increments Ctrl+Shift+wheelcursor one frame at a time Ctrl+Shift+Alt+wheelcroll Press mouse wheel and move mouse left or rightfader Move mouse pointer over fader and use wheel

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Cursor indications

The cursor in Vegas changes depending on which functions are available. In Windows, for example, the cursor changes to an hourglass when the system is busy.

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Trim none Position the cursor over the edge of an event and drag to trim the event, shorter or longer.

Slip Trim Alt Position the cursor over the edge of an event, press Alt, and drag to trim. The media within the event moves with the edge. This is useful to preserve the beginning or end of an event while trimming.

Stretch Ctrl Position the cursor over the edge of an event, press Ctrl, and drag the edge to stretch or compress it. This makes the media in the event play slower or faster.

Slip Alt Press Alt and drag on the middle of a clip to move the media within the event without moving the event itself.

Trim Adjacent

Ctrl+Alt Position the cursor over the boundary between two adjacent events, press Ctrl+Alt, and drag. Both events are edge trimmed simultaneously.

Slide Ctrl+Alt Position the cursor over the middle of an event, press Ctrl+Alt, and drag to simultaneously trim both ends.

Slide Crossfade

Ctrl+Alt Position cursor over a crossfade, press Ctrl+Alt, and drag on a crossfade to move it.

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Audio Signal Flow

Audio event Normalize event Event ASR

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Track FX

Track fader

Pan track

Mute track

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Input Chain

Output Mute

Master Fader FX Mute Hardware

Bus assignment

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Video Signal Flow

Multiple video tracks and compositing are only available in Vegas Video.

Velocity envelope Media interpretation(field order, frame rate, alpha channel, etc.)

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Tutorial and Sample Projects

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in the user interface to see ToolTips that display the

hats This? help definition.chapter is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and tools of Vegas while ing an actual project. This chapter also provides descriptions of several sample projects demonstrate different Vegas features.

te: The tutorial and sample projects monstrate advanced video features (e.g., mpositing) found only in Vegas Video.

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tutorial will teach you how to place media files in the project, edit them, and save them her into a video file. The files you need to create this sample project are included on rograms CD-ROM in the \Sample Projects folder. The video length is approximately seconds. As you work, you will see how easy it is to master the powerful features that s has to offer. Some of the techniques are only briefly demonstrated here, however, and complex operations are described in a sentence or two.

e are nine separate sections in the tutorial. Each section has a completed project file ded on the CD-ROM. When you have worked through section 1. Voiceover tion, your project should look something like the included project file 01_voiceover.veg. e complete project files can also be used as references if you find any of the explanations is chapter to be unclear. If you make a mistake during the tutorial, just undo it by ing . The following resources outside of this chapter may be useful as you work gh the tutorial:

ap of the user interface (pg. 24).ossary of terms (pg. 337).ld the mouse pointer over items

Ctrl + Z

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Installing the tutorial

1. Insert the Vegas CD-ROM.

2. Locate the Sample Projects folder on the CD-ROM and copy it to your hard drive.

3. After the folder is copied, start Vegas.

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te: After copying the files to your hard ve, you may need to re-establish the source dia file links. When opening a project file eg) for the first time, Vegas may prompt

u to find the media and relink it to the ject. All of the files will be read only when

pied to your hard drive. You will be unable save changes to them unless you change their perties.

finished project is called 09_velocity.veg and looks like the illustration below. The ct is designed to highlight a few of the features of Vegas Video. Some aspects of the ct are fairly complex. Use the map below to go to the tutorial section that explains a cular technique.

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