Sony Vegas 9 Manual

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Video events are created from video files captured to your computer (typically AVI, 
MOV, or QT) or images (BMP, JPEG, PNG, or TGA). You can change many 
characteristics of a video event, such as speed, color, and size. Video events can 
overlay other video events and are visual elements that appear on top of a 
background video, image, or color. 
Moving events along the timeline 
You can move events along the timeline individually or as a group....

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Moving events by small increments 
To move an event more precisely, click the event and press 4 or 6 on the numeric 
keypad to nudge it by small increments. The amount of movement caused by each 
nudge is determined by how far the timeline is zoomed in or out. You can also click the 
event and press 1 or 3 on the numeric keypad to nudge the event by frames. 
Working with tracks 
A project consists of multiple audio and video tracks. The track view...

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Changing track height 
You can change the height of individual tracks by dragging their borders in the track 
list. In the example below, the main video track is fairly large to show the details of the 
scene while the two tracks above it, which are overlays, have been resized to a shorter 
height. 
Using the track list 
This section describes the different controls in the track header of each track. Some 
controls are specific to either video or...

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Button or 
Control 
Name Description 
Compositing Determines how the transparency in a video track is generated. 
mode 
Make Creates a parent/child compositing relationship with the track 
compositing above. 
child 
Audio track header

Button or Name Description 
Control 
Minimize track Minimizes track height. 
height 
Maximize track Maximizes track height. 
height 
Track number and Track numbers and colors help organize a 
color multitrack project....

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Playing your project 
The transport bar allows you to play back your entire project or portions of your project 
based on a time selection or the current cursor position. 
Play from cursor position
Loop playback Stop Cursor to end

Record Play from start Pause Cursor to start 
If your project includes video, make sure the Video Preview window is displayed for 
playback: from the View menu, choose Video Preview or press Alt+6. 
Playing an entire...

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Scrubbing 
Scrubbing is a type of timeline playback that gives you precise control over the speed 
and direction of playback. Both linear and logarithmic scale scrubbing are allowed. 
The use of multimedia controllers is supported for scrubbing. For more information on 
using the software with multimedia controllers, please see the online help. To access 
help, choose Contents and Index from the Help menu. 
Tip: Choose a setting from the JKL/shuttle...

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Basic Editing Techniques Chapter 3 
Vegas® Movie Studio™ projects are multitrack compilations of events that 
occur over time. The events in your project are references (pointers) to 
source media files. Vegas Movie Studio software is a nondestructive editor, 
so editing events in your project does not alter the source media files in any 
way. 
Getting around 
When editing and playing back the project, the cursor identifies where you 
are along the...

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In Vegas Movie Studio software, it matters which track has focus when you perform a 
task. For example, when you double-click a media file in the Explorer, it is inserted into 
the track that has focus. You can click a track on its track number to make it the focus 
track. A blinking white line under the track number and shading in the track list 
indicates a track has focus. 
Making selections 
You have the flexibility to select one or more events,...

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Selecting a block of events 
1.	Click the Selection Edit Tool button ( ). 
2.	Position the cursor in a corner of the area that 
you want to select. 
3.	Click and hold the left mouse button. 
4.	Drag the cursor to the opposite corner of the 
area you want to select. A rectangle is drawn on 
the workspace. All events within this rectangle 
are selected. 
Hold the left mouse button and right-click to toggle through the three types of 
selection boxes:...

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Dragging to select a time range 
1.	Position the mouse pointer above the ruler (on the marker bar). The mouse pointer 
changes to a left/right arrow cursor ( ). 
2.	Drag to select a region. All events, or portions of events within the region, are 
highlighted. 
3.	Drag the yellow handles on either end of the time 
selection to increase or decrease your time range 
selection. 
Tip: You can move the entire selection range by

dragging the time...