Sony Vegas 6 Manual
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INDEX ix Preparing video for broadcast Safe areas, 293 Preparing video for television DV format guidelines, 234 Prerendering video, 289 Pre-roll, 205 Preset chains, 194–195 Editing, 195 Organizing, 195 Saving from existing chains, 194 Presets keyframe, 275 Presets, saving, 192, 246, 272 Preview split screen, 292 Preview fader Adjusting for clipping, 185 Adjusting volume, 182 Hiding/viewing, 182 Meter resolution, 182 Previewing split-screen view, 292 Previewing video secondary Windows display, 301 Previews, 67 Full-quality, 289 In media players, 70 Optimizing, 289 Prerendering, 289 Resolution, 289 Transitions, 272 Printing to DV tape, 323 to HDV tape, 326 Printing to tape preferences, 342 using Video Capture, 328 Printing video to tape, 323 Project Media window, 26, 47 Adding media, 48 Adding still image sequences, 51 Capturing video, 48 Extracting CD audio, 50 Getting images, 49 Replacing media in events, 48 Project playback Entire, 67 Media player, 70 Ti m e s e l e c t i o n , 6 7 Project property settings, 333–334 Audio CD tab, 334 Audio tab, 333 Matching video settings of existing file, 44, 238 Ruler tab, 334 Summary tab, 334 Video tab, 333 Project references in media files, 58 Projects Creating, 43 nesting, 66 New Project wizard, 43 publishing to the Web, 71 Renaming, 45 Rendering, 307–314 rendering, 70 Saving, 45, 305–307 Saving as EDLs, 233 Proper use of software, 361 Properties Events, 174 Media file, 239 Project, 44, 333–334 Track defaults, 150 Properties pane, 92 Proxy files, audio, 371 PSP exporting to, 314 Publishing a project, 71 Pulldown removal, 45, 336 Configuring, 52 Punch-in, 102, 205 Q Quantizing to frames, 125 Quick start, 43–71 R RAM cache for previews, 291 Razor blade, 105 RealMedia (.rm) commands, 120 File format, 309 file format, 70 Recapturing offline video clips, 49 Recapturing video, 48 Recording, 199–207 Arming tracks, 201 Into a time selection, 204 Into an event, 204 Into an event with time selection, 205 Multiple takes, 206 Previewing takes, 131 Selecting track input devices, 202
INDEX x Specifying storage folder, 206–207 Starting and stopping, 203 Stereo, left, right channel options, 202 Red book CD burning, 351, 358 Red eye removing from stills, 137 Redo/Undo commands, 114–115 Clearing history, 115 Multiple, 115 Reduction red eye, 137 Reference library, 83 Sony Sound Series Loops and Samples, 84 Region, 117 Regions Adding as takes, 135 Deleting, 118 Inserting, 117 media, adding, 135 media, viewing, 136 Moving, 117 Naming, 118 Navigating to, 118 Ripple editing, 111 Selecting, 118 Removing Events from a group, 180 Plug-ins, 245 plug-ins, 194 Track envelopes, 165 Velocity envelopes, 179 Renaming Busses, 186 CD layout markers, 355 Markers, 116 Projects, 45, 306 Tracks, 142 Rendering, 70–71, 307–314 controls and templates, 311 Custom settings, 311 File formats, 70, 309 Surround projects, 221 To a new track, 153 Reordering tracks, 142 Resampling, 232–233 At final render, 232 Event, 173, 178, 232 Reversing a video event, 179 Reversing events, 136 RGB components, 298 Ripple editing, 102 Automatically, 111 Cutting, 100 Deleting, 109 Manually, 111 Pasting, 101 Post-edit rippling, 111 Shuffling events, 112 Ruler, 22 Offset, setting, 330 Project property settings, 334 Time formats, 330, 375 Ruler tab, 334 S Safe areas, 293 Saving a project, 45, 305–307 Autosaving, 307 Using Save As, 45, 306 With media files, 306 Scopes histogram, 297 RGB parade, 298 vectorscope, 295 video, 294 waveform, 296 Scott Studio Commands, 115, 120 File format, 46, 309 Scribble strip, 64, 65, 142 Scrolling, 62 Scrubbing, 68–69 Keyboard, 69 Playhead, 69 Scrub control, 24, 69 Ti m e l i n e , 6 9 with multimedia controllers, 68 Search pane autohiding, 90 automatically hiding, 90 Searching for media files by keyword, 84 Media Manager, 84 using tags, 85 Searching media bins, 52 Selecting all members of a group, 180 Audio CD tracks, 355 Envelope points, 165 Events and a time range, 98 Events to the end of the track, 97 grouped events, 180 Media files, 46 Multiple events, 96 Range of events, 96 Regions, 118 Takes, 130
INDEX xi time range, 97 Tr a c k s , 9 8 SFAP files, 371 Shadow, 283 Show Me How, 20 Shuffling events, 112 Signal flow, 39–40 Single session CD burning, 351 Slide show, creating, 227 Slider Multipurpose, 145 Sliding Crossfades, 113 Events, 108 Slipping events, 107 Slip-trimming events, 107 Smart resample, 173 SMPTE timecode, 373 Changing, 330 Snap offset, 126 Snapping events, 125–126 Quantizing to frames, 125 Snap offset, 126 To a selection, 126 To grid lines, 125 To marker lines, 125 To the cursor, 126 Solid color event, 247 Soloing Assignable effects chains, 187 Busses, 186 Solo button, 64, 65 Tracks, 150 Sorting media with bins, 51 Split-screen previews, 292 Splitting, 105, 107 All events at cursor, 106 Selected events, 106 Ti m e s e l e c t i o n , 1 0 6 Status bar, 24, 153 Stills removing red eye, 137 Streaming media commands, 120 RealPlayer, 120 Windows Media, 120, 229 Stretching events, 129 Subclips, 136 Subtags, 80 Summary tab, 334 Surround, 209–222 Automating panning, 218–221 Hardware setup, 210 Keyframes, 218–221 LFE channel, 209, 212 Panning, 214 Rendering, 221 Surround panner, 29 Surround Panner window, 216 Switches, 171–173 Invert phase, 172 Lock, 171 Loop, 171 Maintain aspect ratio, 173 Mute, 171 Normalize, 172 Reduce interlace flicker, 173 Resample, 173 Sync tab, 344 Advanced control settings, 344 Synchronization audio/video alignment problems, 109 Synchronizing MIDI timecode, 200, 206 System requirements, 17 T Tagging media files, 77 loops and samples, 81 Tags applying to media file, 78 arranging in the tag tree, 80 creating, 77 creating palettes, 80 deleting from library, 79 editing names or images, 80 removing from library, 79 removing from media file, 79 saving to media files, 81 subtags, 80 viewing palettes, 80 Takes, 130 Adding files as, 130 Deleting, 131 Displaying names of, 131 Placing media as, 56 Previewing, 131 Recording audio as new, 203 Renaming, 131 Selecting, 130 Technical support, 17 Test pattern Event, 247 Te x t
INDEX xii Credit roll event, 247 Keyframing, 280 Media Generators window, 28 Text event, 247 Ti t l e s , 2 2 8 Thumbnails, 91 Time compressing events, 129 Time Display window, 22, 331–332 Changing color, 332 Changing time format, 331 MIDI timecode settings, 332 Ti m e s e l e c t i o n , 9 7 Copying, 100 Cutting, 101 Recording into, 204 With events, 98 Ti m e c o d e MIDI, 200, 206, 344–345 Video, 373 Timeline Adding media to, 56 Moving events along, 60 Playback on external monitor, 300 printing to DV tape, 323 printing to HDV tape, 326 Ti t l e s Creating, 228 Fading, 229 Safe areas, 293 Text generator, 247–248 Toolbar, 21 adding buttons, 335 customizing, 334 hiding/showing, 334 removing buttons, 335 reordering buttons, 335 Track automation, 155–158 Track automation envelopes, 163 Track effects Setting default, 150 Track envelopes, 163–166 Adding points, 163 Changing fade curves, 164 Colors, 163 Deleting points, 164 Envelope Edit Tool, 165 Hiding on track(s), 165 Locking to events, 166 Moving points, 164 Removing from track(s), 165 Types, 163 Track FX button, 64, 65 Track list, 23, 64–65 Track list (audio CD) Creating from events, 354 Editing in Edit Details window, 356 Exporting, 356 Track motion, 281–286 Button, 64 Glow, 284 Keyframes, 283 Picture-in-picture effect, 285 Position, 283 Shadow, 283 Shortcut menu, 282 Track name, 64, 65 Changing, 142 Track view, 23 Track-at-once CD burning, 351, 357 Tracks, 62, 141–153 Adding empty, 141 Arming for recording, 65 Assigning plug-ins to, 189, 242 Assigning to a bus, 65, 147, 186 Automating parameters, 155–158 Color, changing, 143 Compositing modes, 64, 249–251 Default properties, 150 Deleting, 142 Duplicating, 141 Height, changing, 143 Height, setting default, 150 inserting empty, 141 Making compositing child, 64, 258 Mixing to a single track, 153 Multipurpose slider, 65 Muting, 64, 65, 149 Naming/renaming, 142 Number, 64, 65 Organizing, 142–143 Panning, 214 Phase inverting, 65, 148 Reordering, 142 Resizing, 143 Scribble strip, 64, 65, 142 Selecting, 98 Soloing, 64, 65, 150 Track effects, 64, 189–196, 241–246 Track FX button, 65 Track keyframes, 64, 276–277 Track layers, 270 Track motion, 64, 281–286 View buttons, 64, 65 View options, 143 Volume fader, 65, 144 Transition adding to all selected events, 269 Transitions, 267 Adding, 268 Animating, 273
INDEX xiii From auto-crossfades, 268 From cuts, 271 Modifying, 272 Using, 268 Window, 27 Transparency, 177 And overlays, 264 Transport bar, 23, 67, 68 Keyboard shortcuts, 32 Triggering recording from MIDI timecode, 206 Trimmer window, 25, 132–137 Audio editor, opening from, 136 Events, placing on track, 133 Opening a file in, 132 Overview, 132 Regions and markers, adding, 135 Subclips, 136 Three-point editing, 134 Working with, 133 Trimming, 103–104 Adjacent events, 104 Beyond event edges, 104 events with keyboard, 105 selected events, 103 Time and event selection, 104 Ti m e s e l e c t i o n , 1 0 4 Troubleshooting Audio, 367–368 Video, 367–375 Tutorials, 20 U Undersample rate, 174 Undo/Redo commands, 114–115 Clearing history, 115 V Vectorscope, 295 Vegas Installing, 18 Overview, 21–38 Velocity envelope, 178 Vi de o monitoring with scopes, 294 previewing on secondary Windows display, 301 printing to tape, 323 printing to tape using Video Capture, 328 viewing on broadcast monitor, 301 viewing on external monitor via DeckLink, 303 Video Capture, 328 Capturing video with, 48 Recapturing offline clips with, 49 Vi de o C D s burning, 359 Video effects, 241–246 Animating, 246 Keyframes, 246 Modifying, 246 Ordering, 244 Removing, 245 Window, 27 Video masks, 259 Video motion, See Track motion Video preview split-screen, 292 Video previews Capturing images from, 227, 288 Dynamic RAM previews, 291 External monitor, 300 Optimizing, 289, 300 Prerendering, 289 Previewing in a player, 300 Resolution, 289 Shortcut menu, 288 Window, 26 Video property settings, 333 Video scopes, 29, 294 histogram, 297 RGB parade, 298 vectorscope, 295 waveform, 296 View buttons, 64, 65 Vi e w i ng media markers, 136 media regions, 136 Vo l u m e Assignable effects fader, 146, 188 Bus send fader, 186 Event envelopes, 175 Setting track default, 150 Track envelopes, 163 Track fader, 65, 144 Volume automation, 156 VST plug-ins, 189 W Wave64 (.w64) audio format, 310 Web site Accessing help, 20 Technical support, 17 Troubleshooting resources, 367, 375 What’sThis? help, using, 20 Window docking area, 24 Windows Surround Panner, 216
INDEX xiv Windows Media streaming commands, 120 Working with MXF files, 57 Z Zoom Edit Tool, 62 Zooming, 62