The Idiots Guide to Vegas

LiveForLife · Post by **LiveForLife** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:28 pm

Hey guys, wonderful tutorial. I finaly decided to upgrade to sony vegas and dang is it better (and much more complicated) then WMM.

Although I do have one complete idiotic question..
Its kind of embarrasing actualy..
Ok well can I split clips in the project media? I have a full length episode in there right now and Im getting the feeling that I have to split into clips before I import them into the project media. I searched around for help before posting this and the only answer I found was that I had to slit and save my clips in WMM first..
This seemed like a waste of time to me..
So before I start uploading all my full length episodes should I split them into smaller clips first and if so how/where?

Thanks.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:31 pm

you can always just cut out clips using the trimmer:

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:32 pm

gah meant to press "preview"...

drop the video file that you want to clip into the trimmer, highlight the part you want, right click and choose "copy" and then right click on the time-line and press "paste"

LiveForLife · Post by **LiveForLife** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:48 pm

Hey thanks,

The first tutorial I went to told me to stay away from the trimmer.. which is why I didn't use it, but I think I'll ignore that comment and give it a try.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:58 pm

odd, I use it all the time :3 why did it say to stay away from it?

prYzm · Post by **prYzm** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:04 pm

trimmer is the win of vegas

PsYc0tIk DrEaM · Post by **PsYc0tIk DrEaM** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:15 pm

I have a Huge Problem.... Each time i put the video file on the timeline it shows up as an Audio peak

does anyone know how to fix this problem?

prYzm · Post by **prYzm** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:18 pm

Kariudo wrote:
that glorious flashing banner is a link.

the recommended codec to use is lagarith. It's lossless, but that means that your files will be big. You won't want to re-encode entire episodes, instead you should just make small clips using virtualdub (or virtualdubmod)

that quote is so handy

PsYc0tIk DrEaM · Post by **PsYc0tIk DrEaM** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:18 pm

errrrrrrrrrrrgh Cannot locate decompresser for WMV3 format T__T

nightspiritwings · Post by **nightspiritwings** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:02 pm

Okay...i'm VERY new to sony vegas and well I was trying to do the double screen effect, where a scene is on the top, and a different scene is on the bottom...I followed the post exactly and well my clip ends up looking like this:

*the width got changed because I was trying to see if I could fix it...lol*
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/n ... =blarg.jpg

doesnt fit the whole bottom screen...and well I'm stuck on how to get a top image to appear as well..

sorry ^^

also...how would I do the effect of panneling...like you would see in this music vid:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WbUKr08yaPM
up to 18seconds on that music vid, and some effects on 25-30 seconds as well

and any idea on how to do the pulsing effects?

O.< blah sorry for asking so many questions :p