[Timothy Duncan]

Vegas 6 ships with BorisFX, a standalone lite version that has an image stabilizer.

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[Timothy Duncan]

There is a compressor built into Vegas, but WaveHammer is a better one. One each audio track, there is a noise gate, EQ, and Compressor by default.

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[Timothy Duncan]

First — make sure you have snapping turned on.
Second – select your leftmost clip out of everything you want to move right. Click the left event edge of that clip. Now hit “ctrl g” and then type “+300” followed by “enter.” You have now moved the position bar three seconds forward. Now move your selected clip forward until it’s left edge snaps to the positioner. Now hit “ctrl shift F” (which is post ripple all tracks, markers, etc).

You could turn on ripple and set it to all tracks before moving your clip. Or — you can do the post ripple as I described above. The neat thing aobut Vegas is that you can choose your own preferred method. There are usually 3-4 ways to do anything.

Experiment a bit. You can always undo anything.

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[Timothy Duncan]

There are scripts to automatically normalize all audio in your project.
Also — (I say this a lot) — Go under “view” and choose “edit details”. Re-arrange your layout to keep this visible and stretch it out as wide as the timeline. Keep it visible and use it for such things as “normalize.”

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[Timothy Duncan]

So you shot HDV as 4:3? Or you want to pan/scan the HDV to 4:3?

If you want to pan/scan to 4:3 do this:

Apply Pan/Crop.
Under Source:
set “Maintain Aspect ration” to “No”
set “Stretch to fill frame” to “Yes”

Now — right click with the mouse directly over the video image inside pan/crop and choose “Match Output Aspect”. This will simply crop the left and right sides of the HDV footage to perfectly fit your project size.

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[Timothy Duncan]

Just select the track(s) you are recording on and hit the “!” button on the track header or “x” on the keyboard which will solo only those tracks. (In effect muting all the others — just easier). You can toggle the solo button on a single track or multiple tracks with mouse or “x” on the keyboard.

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[Timothy Duncan]

In the future — park your cursor on the timeline in Vegas where you want your image sequence to be imported. Now click the “open” folder, or choose “file/open” and navigate to your TGA sequence. Make your selection (first frame and range and choose “image sequence”) and then go ahead and click “open.” The Properties tab will automatically appear and you can select Pixel aspect and alpha.

To me this is easier in just one step instead of importing, then changing the properties.

You can also hit the “save” icon (the little disk symbo) next to the “stream” properties in the main Properites tab, once you have aspect and alpha defined. This will save that profile so that next time you import that file type and size, it will apply these settings as the default.

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[Timothy Duncan]

Mary — it’s not media but an actual “.veg” file that you nest. If you have one .veg nested within another, then make a change and SAVE the first .veg, then it updates automatically. (At least it does for me and it should).

Let’s take two projects:
a.veg
b.veg

Place a.veg onto the timeline of b.veg. Now right click on the a.veg clip and choose to “edit source project.” A separate instance of Vegas will open the a.veg file. Now make a change to this project and hit “save.” Alt+tab back to the b.veg project. The a.veg file is updated.

Any vegas project file that is nested will update when it is saved.

Hope this helps.

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[Timothy Duncan]

Go under “view” and select “edit details.”
Stretch this window out across your screen. Re-arrange your Vegas layout so that this window is always visible somewhere, either across the top, or bottom of the main Vegas timeline.
Select any clips — have at tons of controls including duration, timeline in/out and clip in/out based on TC. You also get all the switches such as loop, lock, mute, normalize, etc.

This view is one of the best kept secrets in Vegas.

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[Timothy Duncan]

Simply split the clip you want to save and right click choosing “sub-clip” — the subclip will be placed in the bin you have open.

Another way is to right click on the clip you want and choose to “open in trimmer” — mark the area you like and hit the “sub-clip” button. This way will prompt you for a name, then place the subclip in your open bin.

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