Post Production Process in Sony Vegas 8.0

I've been asked quite a number of times to show the basic color correction I do on the clips as well as explain which video editing software I use and why.
So here is a little 'tutorial' - noobstyle :)
I also show a bit of the most frequent tools I use: zooming in/out (event pan crop), insert text media and overlay it with images, soundtrack and my render settings for widescreen on YouTube.

For all those who aren't really interested in this stuff, I'm sorry :)

Music by Josh Woodward:
"She Dreams in Blue" (instrumental)
http://www.joshwoodward.com

Practical Stuff:
- To log in footage from the camera, I just connect the firewire cable, go to Sony Vegas, click 'File', 'Capture Video', 'DV' ... and then you can insert a name and choose the directory where you want to save the footage to.

Specs of the stuff I'm using:
- The editing software is called Sony Vegas Pro 8.0
- The video screen capturing program is called 'Camstudio', it's completely free. You can download it on www.camstudio.org
- If you're using the camstudio programm, don't forget to click 'Region', 'Full screen' to capture the entire screen
- I edit on Dean's old Acer Aspire 5000 as well as my Asus eee 1000HE: both work great for editing! However; I have to log in all footage on the Aspire because the eee doesn't have firewire.
- The camera I film with is a Canon HV30, the very first clips were made with a very crappy logitech webcam which I absolutely loved and still own! It had a super wide lens and the images weren't too shabby. The sound was terrible though and as everyone switched to HD, I figured I should do the same :)

Basic stuff that I couldn't find in major "professional" tutorials (because it was so evident to most, but not to me :p):
- You can find the basic tools under 'Help', 'Keyboard Shortcuts'
- To split: click 's'
- Separating video and audio; move to the clip and click ctrl+ 'u', now you can move both separately and edit them however you like.
- If you overlay images, it creates an automatic fade in-fade out
- To do this manually: move cursor over the end or start of the clip and you'll get the option to creat a 'fade offset' or 'fade onset' - fade out and fade in
- Speeding up or slowing down: move your cursor to the end or beginning of a clip and ctrl+ click and drag to the left to speed up the image, drag to the right to slow it down.
- At any point in the clip, you can click the little disk icon (above the preview frame) which lets you save the snapshot to a jpg: this is how I get the thumbnails out of the clip. To do this, I first always select 'Best (Auto)' quality (next to the '#' icon at the top).
- If you want the effect for the entire track and automatic keyframes were created; you can just drag the keyframe to the beginning of the timeline; applying the effect to the entire videotrack you're working on
- To make the volume of the soundtrack go up every now and then: move your cursor to the volume-envelope line and double click to add a keyframe; add multiplte ones and drag the line up and down to make it vary

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[TheKingOfRuckus]

I've been using Sony Vegas for quite some time and I've never thought of messing with Color corrector. Thanks for posting this, you showed me something new:).

[twinklybird]

@TheKingOfRuckus I'm glad :) Good luck with it!

[israfel070]

The first few seconds sounds like a noisy lecture hall full of Josies. AGGHHHHH!

"Like a healthy person!" LOL

Interesting. Thanks :)

[twinklybird]

lol, thx :)

[hifly78]

I think you hair looks nice :)

I'm New to Vegas. Trying to figure it out. Thanks for the video.

[brandonlamarmusic]

What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas....Or goes on YouTube ;-)

[3investigators]

Thanks for the great videos. I'm trying to render some projects which I have added chapter markers to that will work when burned to dvd. It doesn't seem to be working though. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help!

[NewAgeDirector]

great video keep up the good work.

[VFXanimations]

Peace out is mine hahaha

Peace out ^^,Y

[MusicosdePosadas]

Help me a lot. Nice voice.

[hormones999]

Really thankful to the you for this insightful video. i alwayz find it difficult to understand technology but you go deep down to the basic so it becomes so clear. thanks a lot girl.

[pixElated1000]

I couldn't tell hear your reason for switching from Premiere Elements to Sony Vegas -( it was a bit garbled). Please expound!