I called Sony’s software dept right around the time I posted this thread and they told me the video is about one hour long. At first the Sony rep did not know the run time. At first he didn’t even know that it came packaged with a DVD tutorial. He then put me on hold for a few minutes. He then came back and gave me his answer. He said the DVD was broken up into categories and that each category was timed. He said he did some math in order to determine the total run time, what he did was he added up the time for each category and came up with a total run time of about one hour, so he claims. The conversation concluded. I then called a second Sony rep for a second opinion. Like the first rep he did not have a clue that this particular version of Vegas came with a tutorial DVD. He too put me on hold, a long hold, to try and get an answer about the DVD’s run time. After being on hold for a while he came back and told me that the run time is about one hour long. At this point, until further verification the answers I’ve been receiving as it pertains to run time are varied. Ditto for the question “Does the DVD that comes with Vegas show the student how to perfom intermediate and advanced techniques?”