Part 1 - 5 Sony Vegas Tutorial for Beginners

[DamageIncM]

You mention so many layers.

But how powerful of a computer do you need to be able to run that?

Because I have the top i5-processor. Maybe not very high-end.

But I overclocked this thing to 3.5GHz and I have 4GB of fast DDR3 memory.

Still, it goes below like 25fps once I start adding some effects.

Like even change the gamma, it instantly cripples the performance, let alone using multiple videos at once.

And I have it at Half Preview quality...

Is Vegas 10 being heavy?...

[CraigTube]

@DamageIncM Every layer that has an effect will rob your CPU. You have to get used to it having a crappy frame rate until you render it. Game makers and CGI movie makers have the same problem. View it in Draft Low for smoothness, and put up with choppy video at higher previews. It will look very pleasing once you render, which will take forever as well.

[TheFinalCreation]

thanks ! Very helpful !!! Could you do more please >? Thank you

[pms00]

these are so helpful. thanks craig.

[BillyALaidlaw]

this is really helpful because ive just got sony vegas 10 and its my first editing software so im a little :S at the moment so this is great :D

[CraigTube]

@numero96 You use the "track motion" on the left of the track. A window will appear with all the things you need to do this. You just drag a corner of the square to shrink it down. Then I used a border effect to soften the edges.

[DarkSide37]

Thanks for the advice, its really helpful!

I've been havin a problem where i am able to get footage off a dvd and get it onto my timeline, but then when I take the dvd out of my drive, i lose all the footage and it just says 'media offline'. It hasn't done this before, i was usually just able to get the footage and take the dvd out and it would stay

any suggestions?

[CraigTube]

@DarkSide37 You have to make sure that you are copying the footage from the DVD to your hard drive so that when you take the DVD out, Vegas still has access to it. Use the "import / DVD camcorder disk" to do this. You can also use "DVD shrink" to extract video from disks as .vob files. Vegas will recognize them. If you choose, "re author", you can choose the clip from the chapter you want. Fool with that and let me know if you need more help.

[lollypop9856]

is Your Sons Name, Talbot?

[CraigTube]

How'd you guess?

[lollypop9856]

i think my little sis robin knows him....

btw You realy Helped me Out!

[CraigTube]

Oh, sorry, I thought you were making a joke. No, his name is David.

[lollypop9856]

oh, okay!

btw he realy looks my my sisters friend, lol....

[hbkfitz]

how did you shrink the track ??

[mythmker]

good videos.

how do you get alpha channels to work so if you want a video track to only show part and then you can see down to the video track below it. (like you have done in this video but using something you have made instead of the cookie cutter)?

[SeFu2006]

How do u make audio echo?

[CraigTube]

You have to apply an effect to the audio track, from the track header. It's called "Track FX".Try searching the help on Track Effects.

[SeFu2006]

ok, thx

[SeFu2006]

How do you apply a shaky camera effect?

[CraigTube]

That's something I can't cover in a message. Track motion, zooming, and keyframes are used to do that. It's a lot of work, but it can be done.

[SeFu2006]

Will your next Vegas module teach a bit of how to do that?

[CraigTalk]

Yes. When I get into affects and keyframing, you'll understand how these things are done. I'm planning on taping more episodes soon.

[Darkspirit526]

Bam! Just like that. How easy.

[VitiokasMozart]

Amazing, this video helps a lot. Thank you.

[lotrfreak1310]

can you with sony vegas making videos slower?

[CraigTube]

Absolutely. You right click on the track header (left) and turn on "velocity" envelope. Then you can double click on the green line and create nodes that you can drag up or down, depending on what you want to do.

[lotrfreak1310]

Thanks :)