Video of Sony Vegas in Action

From PiTiViWiKi

General overview of features commonly used in VV

Kiddo: I made a demo screencast of "basic needed features" in a timeline. Beware that the real-world performance of that application is of course an order of magnitude better/smoother that that, I was screencasting on a pentium 4 through a virtual machine ;)

http://open-source.ecchi.ca/projets/pitivi/vegas6-01.ogg (mirror)

In this video:

• drag and drop everywhere
• scrubbing (1:05)
• timeline zooming (1:12 and elsewhere)
• preview quality (1:25)
• vumeters (1:37)
• inserting new layers, dragging clips on layers (1:45)
• automatic layer creation when dragging (1:54)
• layer folding (2:01)
• adjusting the transparency/opacity of a clip (2:08)
• automatic crossfading (2:20)
• changing transitions (2:32)
• audio clip volume adjustment (3:18)
• audio clip fade-in (3:21)
• setting the in/out points of a clip (3:30)
• splitting a clip (3:50), not recommended because not intuitive
• muting video/audio tracks/making tracks solo (4:15)
• changing the opacity of a track (4:25)
• rearranging the size of tracks, playing with zoom (4:30)
• video effects (5:10)
• opacity curves; "envelopes" (6:10)
• audio curves; "envelopes" (6:35)
• rendering (7:05)