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MAGIX licensing conditions are included in the installation and also at w ww.magix.com under EULA. www.vegascreativesoftware.com TableofContents 3 Table of Contents Table of Contents 3 Introduction 13 Technical Support 14 About Vegas Pro 14 Interactive Tutorials 14 The Vegas Pro Window 15 Main toolbar 16 Editing Tool 17 Time Display 20 Track List 21 Scrubbing 22 Timeline 23 Marker Bar 25 The Transport and Editing Toolbar 26 Viewing the status bar 28 Window Docking Area and Floating Window Docks 29 The Explorer Window 29 The Trimmer Window 32 The Master Bus Window 32 The Video Preview Window 33 The Project Media Window 33 The Edit Details Window 34 The Transitions Window 34 The Video FX Window 35 The Media Generators Window 36 The Compositors Window 37 The Plug-In Manager Window 38 The Video Scopes Window 39 The Surround Panner Window 39 The XDCAM Explorer Window 40 The Mixing Console Window 40 The Device Explorer Window 41 4 Loudness meters 41 Working with projects 45 Creating a new project 45 Setting project properties 45 Opening a project or media file 54 Creating rotated projects 57 Nesting projects 59 Opening a recent project 60 Saving a project 60 Automatic project saving 60 Saving and renaming a project (Save As) 60 Project references in rendered files 61 Sharing a project online 63 Uploading your movie to YouTube 63 Uploading your movie to Facebook 64 Uploading your movie to Vimeo 65 Uploading your movie to YouTube 65 Importing and exporting projects 66 Importing and exporting AAF files 67 Archiving projects 70 Working with P2 Video 70 Edit Decision Lists 71 Closing a Project 72 Exiting the Vegas Pro Application 72 Adding, managing, and arranging media 74 Using the Project Media window 74 Previewing media files 80 Adding media files to your project 81 Working with high-frame-rate (HFR) clips 86 Adding layered PSD files to the timeline 87 Creating a picture slideshow 87 Importing media from a project file 89 Importing Broadcast Wave Format files 89 www.vegascreativesoftware.com TableofContents 5 Importing video from a DVD camcorder 90 Editing video from an XDCAM Station with StreamChase 91 Using the Device Explorer 94 Creating proxy files for high-definition editing 96 Using HitFilm effects 96 Sorting your media with bins 97 Viewing or changing media file properties 99 Inserting audio tracks 104 Inserting video tracks 104 Recording audio 105 Metronome 110 Capturing video 111 Capturing from an SDI card 112 Capture preferences 115 Capturing HDV clips 119 Converting video to 24p 120 Extracting audio from CDs 120 Editing events on the timeline 122 Adding media files to your project 123 Inserting an empty event 127 Inserting time 127 Creating selections and positioning the cursor 128 Moving events 131 Automatic crossfades 132 Enable snapping 132 Quantize to frames 135 Cutting, copying, and pasting events 136 Deleting events 139 Trimming events 141 Post-edit ripple 141 Splitting events 143 Shuffling events 143 Using the Trimmer 144 Adjusting an event's length 152 6 Expanded edit mode 155 Slipping and sliding events 157 Repairing audio/video synchronization offsets 159 Event envelopes 160 Panning and cropping video events 164 Stabilizing video clips 174 Reversing an event 175 Using takes as alternate versions of events 175 Grouping events 177 Using sync links 178 Applying switches to events 179 Audio streams 181 Audio channels 181 Opening events in an audio editor 182 Opening a copy of an event in an audio editor 183 Editing event properties 183 Copying and pasting or selectively pasting event attributes 188 Using the Edit Details Window 188 Removing red eye from still images 189 Undoing and redoing edit operations 190 Rebuild audio peaks 191 Zooming and magnification 191 Multicamera editing 193 Shooting multicamera video 193 Capturing multicamera video 193 Synchronizing video in multicamera projects 194 Creating multicamera events 195 Editing multicamera video 196 Stereoscopic 3D editing 201 Setting up your stereoscopic 3D project 201 Setting up stereoscopic 3D previews 205 Synchronizing stereoscopic 3D events 205 Aligning left- and right-eye views and adjusting depth 208 www.vegascreativesoftware.com TableofContents 7 Rendering a stereoscopic 3D project 210 Using markers, regions, and commands 215 Inserting markers 215 Inserting regions 216 Using media markers and regions 217 Inserting command markers 218 Inserting CD track regions 222 Inserting CD index markers 223 The Marker Tool 223 Track editing 224 Inserting audio tracks 224 Inserting video tracks 224 Selecting tracks 224 Arranging tracks 225 Grouping tracks 226 Duplicating tracks 227 Audio track controls 228 Video track controls 236 Audio bus tracks 241 Video bus track 244 Setting default track properties 248 Render to New Track 249 Using automation 250 Audio track automation 250 Video track automation 254 Automating audio effect parameters 257 Adjusting envelopes 260 Recording track envelope and keyframe automation 264 Animating video events and tracks 268 Panning and cropping video events 268 Editing track motion 278 Keyframe animation 285 Applying effects 290 Adding audio track effects 290 8 Adding audio event effects 292 Using bus effects 293 Applying non-real-time event effects 295 Using assignable effects 295 Adding an assignable effects chain 295 Routing tracks to an assignable effects chain 297 Using assignable effects envelopes 298 Removing an assignable effects chain 298 Creating and using effects packages 298 Bypassing all audio effects 299 Editing audio effects 299 Adding video effects 303 Adding transitions 308 Adding generated media to your project 312 Creating text and titles 314 Using the Titles & Text Plug-In 315 Mixing audio 319 Using the Master Bus Window 319 Busses - overview 321 Adding audio busses 322 Assigning tracks to busses 322 Using bus envelopes 324 Routing busses 324 Signal flow diagram 326 Using input busses 326 Adding or deleting input busses 327 Recording using an input bus 327 Using input busses with hardware-based effects 330 Real-time rendering 332 The Mixing Console 335 The Mixing Console Toolbar 335 The Channel List Pane 337 The View Controls Pane 338 www.vegascreativesoftware.com TableofContents 9 Channel Strips 339 Using the Mixing Console 341 Adding Track, Assignable FX, and Bus Channels 341 Audio Track Channel Strips 341 Bus Channel Strips 349 Input bus channel strips 354 FX send (assignable effects) channel strips 360 Creating a cue (headphone) mix with the Mixing Console 366 Compositing video 369 Compositing and masks 369 3D compositing 374 Video signal flow diagram 383 Proxy-first workflow 385 Working with HDV 387 Capturing HDV clips 387 Editing HDV video on the timeline 388 Working with XDCAM video 389 XDCAM EX workflow 389 XDCAM and XDCAM HD workflow 390 Setting up an XDCAM Device 390 Using the XDCAM Explorer Window 391 Importing XDCAM Discs 394 Editing XDCAM Clips on the Timeline 395 Exporting Video to XDCAM Discs 396 Working with RED camera clips 399 Working with AVCHD video 401 S-Log and ACES workflow in Vegas Pro 14.0 403 Enabling color management in your Vegas Pro project 409 Specifying the color space for individual shots 410 Specifying the color space in a custom rendering template 411 VEGAS Pro 15 ACES 1.0.3 updates 413 5.1 surround projects 415 Setting up your 5.1 surround project 415 5.1 surround panning and mixing 417 10 Audio panning modes 425 Rendering your 5.1 surround project 429 Exporting a Vegas Pro project to DVD Architect 430 Closed Captioning 431 Adding closed captioning to video files 431 Captioning Windows Media files 441 Previewing your project 445 Loop Playback 445 Mute All Audio 445 Mute All Video 445 Using the Video Preview window 445 Split-screen previews 451 Using dynamic RAM previews 453 Using an External Video Monitor 454 External monitor via DVI (Windows Graphics Card) 454 External monitor via IEEE-1394 (FireWire) 455 External monitor via SDI 457 Selectively prerender video 458 Cleaning up prerendered video files 459 Loudness metering and logging 459 Loudness meters 459 Generating a loudness log 462 Monitoring video with scopes 465 The Vectorscope Monitor 465 The Video Waveform Monitor 466 The Histogram Monitor 467 The RGB Parade Monitor 470 Video Scope Settings 470 Timecode synchronization 473 Generate MIDI Timecode 473 Generate MIDI Clock 473 Trigger from MIDI Timecode 474 Burning discs 477 www.vegascreativesoftware.com