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9.Click Finish. Your project will be rendered to the file you specified in step 6.
 If you’re using Manual mode, a dialog will be displayed after rendering is finished. You can specify a 
delay time in the 
Delay playback countdown timer box and select the Beep each second during countdown 
check box if you want to count down before sending video to your device.
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Printing to tape using Video Capture
1.If you have not already done so, connect your video camera to your video capture card using the cable 
provided with the card.
2.In the Project Media window, click the Capture Video button (). The Sony Video Capture application 
starts.
Note: If your video camera is properly connected, the Video 
Preview window in the center of the application area should 
display “Device connected.”
3.Follow the instructions for...

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Customizing Vegas 
software
You can customize Vegas® software to suit your project needs and working preferences. Many of the settings 
depend on your equipment or studio setup. Vegas software can be set to work with the components that you 
use in your studio.
In this chapter, you will find information about functions that allow you to customize the appearance of 
Vegas software, set a project’s properties, and set the application’s preferences.
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The following are the different time units available (hh=hours, mm=minutes, ss=seconds, and ff=frames): 
Editing the ruler offset
The ruler doesn’t necessarily need to start with zero at the far left side. You can enter an offset to change the 
orientation of the ruler in a project. One use of this is to create a lead-in into a project. A five-second offset 
would mean that the ruler would start at -5 seconds and would be at 0 five seconds into the project.
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Changing grid spacing
Grid spacing is different from the ruler and provides an alternate method of subdividing a project’s time. 
This can be useful if you want the ruler to display SMPTE video timecode, but you need to create your music 
in terms of beats and measures. You can display the grid spacing in time, frame, measure, or note units. The 
grid can also be set to match the ruler’s time format. The grid appears across all tracks in your project and the 
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Changing the time display colors
You can change the background color and text color used in the time display.
1.Right-click the time display to display the shortcut menu.
2.From the shortcut menu, choose Text Color or Background Color and then choose Custom. The Time 
Display Color dialog appears. 
3.Choose the color setting that you want.
4.Click OK to set the text or background color or click Cancel to keep the existing color settings and close 
the dialog.
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Working with project properties
A large range of formats and various types of media files are 
supported. Some settings in a project’s properties
 are simply 
informational details about the project, while others 
control how your project is handled and its output. If you 
have multiple projects, the settings used for each project are 
stored. These settings can be saved as templates for future 
use.
To view and modify project properties, choose Properties 
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Ruler tab
This tab allows you to change ruler settings used in your project. You can also change ruler settings in track 
view. For more information, see Changing the ruler format on page 329.
Summary tab
This tab allows you to enter information about the project. You can leave the boxes on this tab blank or, if 
information exists, you can change it at any time.
Audio CD tab
This tab is available only in the full version of Vegas software.
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Reordering toolbar buttons
You can change the main toolbar’s button order to suit your preferences. The Customize Toolbar dialog 
allows you to control the order and functionality available on the main toolbar. You may return the toolbar 
to its default settings by clicking the
 Reset button.
1.From the Options menu, choose Customize Toolbar. The Customize Toolbar dialog appears.
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Setting preferences
The preferences options are different from project properties. Project properties are unique to each project, 
while preferences affect how Vegas software functions. Any changes that you make to the preferences remain 
set until you change them again or reset Vegas software to use the default presets. 
You can access the Preferences dialog by choosing Preferences from the Options menu. This dialog contains 
tabbed pages. The following sections...