Sony Vegas Pro 10 Course

Hello, and welcome to this VTC course on Sony Vegas Pro 10. My name is Mark Struthers and I have produced many courses for VTC over the last couple of years, most notably on video production software, and audio creation software. In fact in my day to day life, I run a small multi media studio, Energy Studios, and daily use video production software and audio creation software. Now in this tutorial we're going to look at Sony's Vegas Pro 10 software, which as Sony likes to describe it as innovative and advanced multi-track media editing system. So along the way we'll put this claim to the test, and by the end of the course, I'm sure you'll align your point of view, with Sony's perspective on Vegas Pro 10. Now I've always had a soft spot for Sony software, going back to early versions of Sound Forge and ACID. In fact, Sound Forge and ACID are probably the first audio editing and music creation tools I first used. And now right up to date with Vegas Pro 10, I love it's uncluttered user interface, tied into a familiar Windows navigation structure. So what will we cover here in this VTC course. Well I want to look at as many of the available functions as I can throughout this course, but additionally my perspective will also angle towards how much Vegas Pro focuses on the user, both in terms of useability, and features. As you probably know there are three big players in the video production software world, Sony, Adobe, and Apple with Final Cut Pro. Now I mention this because the latest version of Final Cut Pro has inadvertently created quite a mutiny, in that many of it's core features were removed in their newest version. As a result it's meant that many users have been tempted to migrate over to either Adobe's Premier Pro, or indeed to Sony's Vegas Pro 10. So in terms of what will be covered in this VTC course, well I'll be looking at features that Vegas has, and does well. The type of feature that Final Cut Pro users are scratching their head about, and wandering why can't we have these features anymore? So we'll look at, to start off, an overview of Vegas Pro 10, we need to look at system requirements. We look at the main window, and it's related displays. We'll then move on to working on a new project and how to get started. Next we'll continue our workflow investigation, looking at using the Device Explorer, and playing the project amongst other things. The more that you become accustomed to Vegas Pro 10, then you'll realize an important part of the program is the Media Manager, so we'll devote a full section to that. We do need to make our projects look their best of course, so we'll have a look at editing our project, and indeed there will be a couple of sections on editing. The following three sections will focus on improving our projects, by looking at managing multiple clips, and improving our projects audio. We'll then spend some time looking at the track management and automation before moving on to looking at working with events. As we move towards the end of this course, then we look at Vegas's Mixer, and how we can add audio effects. And indeed record audio. And then to conclude, we'll look at further useful functions, such as creating titles to overlay on our projects. So all in all, quite a comprehensive amount of things that we will be looking at through this VTC course on Sony Vegas Pro 10.  

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