Vegas Work flow?

[Edward Troxel]

Here’s how I work in Vegas:

Take the video clip and drop it on the TIMELINE

Press “S” to split the clip around sections I want to get rid of and DELETE those sections.

I hardly ever use the trimmer. It’s handy for some specific purposes but I definitely don’t build my timeline from it.

Edward Troxel

[Matt Schwartz]

Although I consider myself pretty green at all this, I have been using Vegas Studio Plat to edit some pretty complicated projects as a learning experience and it works fantastic. I haven’t crashed it yet, either. I have used many of the tools, many of the effects, both track and toolwise, chromakey, etc. all kinds of keyframing and highly recommend a second monitor for previewing because the clutter will frustrate you as you attempt to learn. There are obviously many, many docking windows and you need to know how to GRAB them and move them. Print out ALL the shortcuts and review / GO OVER THEM and TEST THEM, and I believe this is CRITICAL, as I keep these on my desk and refer to them ALL the time when I am editing. You want to know all the track height shortcuts because there is so much clutter. Also important is to play around with the trim / slip trim /slide crossfade operations at least a little so you see how Vegas handles clips. Go over cursor placement shortcuts (there’s like 20 of these), event selection plus find your top controls and play around with all the edit ripple modes, an incorrect track edit here will KILL you if you don’t have it set right.) The workflow is getting clips on the timeline, remember plat handles 4 tracks video or audio max, I personally find the trimmer very handy, becoming very familiar with the shortcuts, play around with track envelopes, clip & audio effects, transitions, how to select regions & loop, rendering, and yes the SONY online help is pretty limited, just keep doing this and after 2-3 weeks you will become more comfortable with this massive NLE……………

ALSO, WHY are you moving away from PREMIERE?

[Tony Noon]

Shift B has made my life nuch easier! I am working on a project with multiple tracks and I could not figure out how to preview what I was doing. I am definitely more comfortable with the work flow than I was. Focus takes some getting used to.
As to why I am switching to Vegas, Economics. I have Premiere 6.0. I can’t afford to upgrade my PC to run CS3 and the software, but I am right in that recomended range for Vegas so I made the leap. I was also considering Speed Edit, but I had already purchased Boris FX & grafitti so the ability t use those plug ins pushed me to Vegas.

Tony Noon
Noon Productions