Sony Vegas Video Editing Tutorial

I got Sony Vegas 7 when my Dad bought a HD camera, and I have found it a very useful tool, especially when making videos for youtube.

I made this tutorial on how to make a video using the programme as a bit of an experiment. It's a nice change from Source SDK tutorials and this video would actually help my MUM if she wasn't better at using this programme than I was. However, I'm sure there are plenty of other Mums out there who need helping when it comes to putting holiday clips on the internet- as well as thousands of people trying to make the next big computer game movie.

This tutorial only shows the basics, I don't like to over complicate tutorials, especially when people are finding a programme intimidating enough to use in the first place. I may make more, depending on how this video is received.

RENDER TYPES

256 kbps - renders at 320 x 240, it's also fuzzy and blocky, but will be fine for normal camera footage. Sound is also slightly muffled. But you can make a 10 minutes film about 10 mb in size, so it's useful.

512 kbps - Double the size of 256 kbps, but it's slightly sharper and the sound is much clearer.

3 mbps - 6 times larger than 512 kbps, but the quality is far better. It's actually clearer than television footage, and I would recommend it for computer game recordings and HD footage when you're not really that bothered with the quality.

4.2 / 5 / 6 mbps - 1280 x 720 resolution, also known as 720p, also used with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games. It's not the highest resolution in the world, but for youtube I doubt that anybody would benefit from any higher, as recording and displaying at higher resolutions leads to slowdown. 1280 x 720 is clear enough to show HD footage and tutorials like this one.

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[liljiga22]

Can anyone help plz? If I wanna cut a video to make it shorter and its already in the same format, do I still have to render it or do I just save it?

[3kliksphilip]

@liljiga22 You still have to render it.

[koqa94]

thanx buddy.....

[ulujm]

ok guys I have a video avi of 6MB I  inverted this video and render. I end up with a video of 2GB. How do I do to keep the original size

[PoKerFaceN1]

perfect ! thank u . i have watch many tutorial videos this is the best one .

[eltonyc]

thank you :)

[scarfulify]

Very nice, informational video! But you might consider disabling re-sampling of the clips, it's just personal preference for me. I think it looks nicer.

[noorchtoo]

helped alot thnks duede

[noorchtoo]

thnks dude helped me alot

[DamageIncM]

@3kliksphilip

Yes, it does that anyway.

But I was sure that it would also make a difference if you just put them together and it would kind of "skip" a fraction of a frame OR if you would kind of "merge" them together (while it would then show a time-label with 0,00) without actually crossfading a single frame.

Hm, strange...

Well, thanks for your replies anyway! :)