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Introduction to Multimedia EditingWith Sony Vegas Movie Studio


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Table of Contents

1. Sony Vegas Movie Studio at a Glance .............................................................................. 3

2. Getting Started ................................................................................................................. 4-5

3. Recording Your Voice ..................................................................................................... 5-6

4. Editing your voice ............................................................................................................... 7

5. Adding Pictures and Video (Media)................................................................................ 7-8

6. Adding Special Effects .................................................................................................. 8-11

7. Adding Text, Titles, and Credits ...................................................................................... 11

8. Adding Music .................................................................................................................... 12

9. Making a Movie ................................................................................................................. 13

10. Troubleshooting Guide ............................................................................................. 14-20


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1. Sony Vegas Movie Studio at a Glance


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2. GettingStarteda. File management

Video editing programs create references, or links, to your files. That means if youmove them, the program gets very confused. Three important tips:

Keep ALL of your pictures, music, etc in the same umbrella folder calledYourname_story. Within the umbrella folder, create folders for your images,

music, audio, videos, and final movies and call them Name_story_musicName_story_images, etc.

Always copy media (songs, photos, etc.) from USB drives, CDs, or anyexternal device to the appropriate folder. Then remove external device.

Never move around your files.

b. Saving your projectWhen you open up Vegas Movie Studio, it will ask you a lot of new questions, you canbasically skip through all of them using the defaults, until you get to the box that lookslike this:

Here it is asking you where you want to save your project (a project is where we edityour story together. Dont just skip through and do the default here, but make sureyou select the umbrella folder called Yourname_story

c. Changing preferencesEditing will be easier if you get in the habit of going to Options Menu and selectingPreferences. Scroll down to the line that says make space bar play/pause buttonrather than play/stop button.

d. Introduction to timeline and tracksYour timeline comes with three audio and three video tracks. At any point you canzoom in or out on your timeline. By clicking on any point on your timeline, first, you canuse the wheel on your mouse to zoom in on details or conversely show a broader view


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of your timeline so that you can move events or sections around.

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You can also use the buttons on each axis on the timeline to zoom into your timeline,as well as your list of video/audio tracks.

e. Shortcuts

S=split trackV= volume indicator/audio envelopeSpace= pause/play

U= unlink (use this if you dont want the audio associated with a video clip or viceversa)Control Z= Undo

3. Recording Your Voicea) Connecting Microphone

After you plug in your microphone to the USB port, there should be some indicationthat the computer recognizes the new hardware. Usually the light on yourmicrophone will turn on. If you are using the snowball microphone, please makesure the switch in the back is set to option one.

b) Changing Control Panel Settings

Make sure that you are using the correct microphone (program will often default tothe built-in mic.) Go into control panel > sound to select correct input for recording.Please note, this is different in every operating system but the key is to adjust theRECORDING volume, not the playback volume. We usually start it at about 90%input.


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c) Recording

1. Click Arm for Record button on the audio track called VOICE (its a redbutton).

2. When youre ready, click the record button on the bottom of the timeline.Make sure your cursor is at the beginning of where you want your narration

to start. Watch the levels to make sure they dont go into the red zone, theyshould hover around 12 db.

3. When youre done, click on stop button on the bottom of the timeline.

4. When prompted, rename each recording (call it a_first few words,b_nextwords, etc.) Navigate to the audio folder in your Yourname_story folder and make sure to save them there.

5. Listen (with headphones) and recheck the levels and make sure there areno buzzes. If needed, adjust the recording volume in control panels until itis in the correct zone. If your voice is too high or too low, you can trynormalizing the audio by right clicking on the audio click and selecting


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normalize. Notice the waveforms are more pronounced.

4. Editing Your Voicea. Listen through to your whole audio first.

It helps to have a printout of your script with you to read through and note whereyou need to make edits.

b. Get familiar with your cursor

The playback cursor tells the editor where you are along the timeline. Thislong cursor can be used to decide where you want to play your piece fromand to pinpoint where to cut a clip.

Along the vertical edge of a clip a rectangular icon with a horizontal doublearrow indicates the trim tool is activated. This trimmer allows for minoradjustments to the ends of audio, video, or image clips. You can extend aclip inward to make it shorter or outward to make it longer.

c. Editing audio clips (trimming and splitting)

i. Trimming audio means editing out the beginning or end of a clip (asection of audio). For editing out something at the beginning of the clip,

just hover over the left edge of the clip until your trim cursor appears,click, drag the side of the clip to the right until it begins at the correctpoint. For editing out something at the end, click and drag the right sideof the clip to the left until its at the correct point (you need to listen tomake sure).

ii. To take out a section in the middle of the script, you can put theplayhead right before the section you want to take out and type S. This

splits the clip into two sections and then you can use the double arrow(see above) to remove the section of audio you dont want to hear.

5. Adding Pictures and Video (Media)a. Importing media

1) Click on the project media tab, click on the import media button (locatedunder the second toolbar). From there, you can navigate to the file on yourcomputer and click "open"


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b. Putting media in timeline

After your audio is all set, its time to line up your images so they match. Itwill be easiest if you put your images in the track called video. Select apicture from your project media and drag and drop it right in the video track,directly above the audio that corresponds to that image. Once your clips arein the timeline, you can move them around, delete them, and rearrangethem to your hearts content. You can extend and shorten image clips by

hovering over the left or right sides to get double arrow, clicking anddragging, just like you did with your audio.

6. Adding Special Effectsa. Transitions: Transitions refer to the way that one clip goes to the next. To

make your piece a bit smoother, you might consider adding a crossfade bysimply dragging one edge of a clip over the other. Youll see a cross appearbetween the two clips. You can change this to other transitions by clickingon the transition tab up by the project media, and dragging the one you likeonto the overlapped x.

Note: the longer your transition, the slower the fade or effect.

b. Video effects: Sony Vegas Movie Studio has a whole host of effects up inthe video effects tab by project media. To apply one, you simply choosethe effect, drag it and drop it on the clip of your choice.


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c. Fading in and out. If you put the arrow over a corner of any video or audioclip you get a quarter circle with an arrow. Drag it to the right from the leftside of the clip to fade in (from black) and to the left from the right side of theclick to fade out.

d. Panning and Zooming

You can zoom in and out on any photo or video by clicking on the "eventpan/crop" button. There are two reasons you might want to use this feature:

To change the frame of an image a picture can be cropped by adjusting thewidth and height of the dashed box surrounding the photo in the new window

(you can do this by clicking and holding any of the 8 corner/side points anddragging them to get the image you want). You can see what it will look likeadjusted by looking at your video monitor while you adjust the size. Tip: Ifyou want your image to fill the screen, right click on it and selectmatch output ratio.


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To create movement on a picture By creating a before frame and anafter frame for your picture. Some popular ones are starting off seeing theentire photo, then zoom into see some section of the photo in greater detail(or vice versa to spice it up)

o Click on the Event Pan/Crop Buttono Notice the mini timeline on the bottom of the window. Double click on

the end of the position mini timeline to create a new point (a diamond

will show up).

(since youre starting frame shows the entire picture, you just have to set the end framebecause your start frame is already set)


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o Once youre clicked onto your new point, you can alter theadjustment box to get to your target end frame Once you have twopoints on your mini timeline (with different frames) when you play theevent on your timeline, there will be a motion as it goes from point A topoint B.

o You can add as many points as you want to your mini timeline (withdifferent adjustments for each) or change the order and position ofthem. A good variation is to take the example above (full picture tozoom in) and drag the diamond points (on the mini timeline) toopposite ends (the one that was first is now last and the one at theend, is at the beginning of the mini timeline). Its now oppositebecause the picture starts close and then zooms out to show theentire picture.

e. Transparency - Placing the arrow at the top edge of a clip changes the

arrow to a hand with a double arrow. This allows you to adjust the opacity ofthe entire clip. You might want to do this to superimpose one image onanother.

7. Adding Text, Titles, and Creditsa. Text and titles: Go to Insert ! Text! Media; This will pull up a window

with an assortment of options for the font properties, text placement andoutline/shadow properties. The last two options are important to exploresince text laid over a video needs to be emphasized with being obtrusive.

b. Credits: Other forms of text and media can be selected from the MediaGenerators tab along the bottom left portion of the Vegas Editingenvironment. A Credit Roll is an option with the tab menu. Credits are away to disclose to viewers details about the production. This is important forcelebrating peoples involvement in the production and in practice is a greatway of attributing credit to artists that have granted you permission to usetheir media in your digital story. Credits can also serve as instruction to theaudience to visit a site, participate in an event or motivate a community intoaction of that is the intent.

Plain scrolling on black credit rolls can be edited so that you can listimportant section headers (like images) in larger fonts while details aboutthe section elements (name of picture and the artist) in smaller type. Besure to place some space between sections.

Please include an end slide for your project as the final piece to giveattribution to workshop and funders. Typically these pieces are in for 4seconds with a fade up and down to black.


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8. Adding MusicAfter selecting your music and importing it, simply drag the song from your project mediadown into the audio track called, music. Notice the Mixer next to the preview pane of thelower right corner of the screen. During playback, you will notice the mixer meter rising andfalling depending of the audio level intensity across the tract. As a rule of thumb, meterratings between 6 and 12 DB are a recommended range for voice clarity and intensity.

Youre going to notice that the music will most likely overpower your voice.

There are three main ways to adjust your volume.

1. Track volume on the left side of each audio track is a volume adjuster youcan make the music lower by pulling it to the lefttry -15 to start. Note: dontmake your voice louder, make the music softer!

2. Gain - Within each track you can pull up whats called an audio envelope byclicking in the track and typing v. This pulls up a purple line. If you right clickand select add point you are able to add nodes and have your music fadeup and down. You need to include insert two nodes in order to provide theflexibility and decrease the audio level only within a portion of the music clip.

3. Master track volume. Usually you don't adjust this at all during the course ofa project, but its good to know just in case you have an overall volume that ismuted, too soft, or too loud.


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9. Making a Movie:

Before you make a movie out of your project, please check for the following:

Credits: make sure that the storytellers name, the title of their story, and anymusic/photo credits are all included.

Endslide: please include endslide as the last image on your timeline. 4 secondswith a fade up and down from black.

Audio: Make sure audio is hovering in the mixer between 6 and 12 db. and thatmusic does not overpower voice.

Margins: All text should be within the title safe zone

Video: Make sure you dont have any strange glitches!

When all the above is complete, you can go ahead and make a movie from yourstory. Go to the file menu and select make movie. First, make a small copy thatyoull use on your local flash drive or upload to the web. In Movie Studio 9 you can usethe default template. For Movie Studio 10 select the template called 3 MBS . Makesure to NOT save the movie in the default folder, rather, select the folder calledyourname_final movies. If you want to make a DVD or have a large uncompressedversion of the story, do the process again and use the AVI template. Note: this versionwill be a HUGE file.

Final Save As: When youre all done with Sony, do a save as and call the project

final_yourname_story and there is a little box that you can check that says, copymedia with project that you should click, leave it as copy source media when asked.This way you dont need to worry about stray images, a copy of them will all go tofolder.


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10. Troubleshooting Guide

a. Replace media/media offline This program actually points to files on your hard driverather than changing the the original file. When a file is listed as offline, it just means

that the computer doesn't know where the file is located on your computer. So, youhave a few options when this comes up on your computer.

1) "Search for missing file" - this will bring up an option to search for the file on yourcomputer. Any possible file will be listed below and you can choose the correct one.

2) "Specify a new location or replacement file" - navigate and choose another file

location (the original file location will be listed up top of the navigation bar if you needhelp with the original location.)


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3) You can also choose one of the bottom two options and ignore one file, or all the files thatare offline.

You can then continue to work on your project with blank events taking the place of any offlinefiles (and it will also have listed that the media is offline)


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There are a couple of reasons why you may get the message the following file cannotbe found in the specified location

1) Opening a project - a file used in the project has moved or deleted.

2) Multitasking or coming back to the Movie Studio after minimizing the editing window- a file used in the project has moved or been deleted.

b. Window layout/zooming in on timeline/window disappearing Your workspace isfully customizable so you can adjust the sizes of tabs and windows as well as dock(and undock) windows from each other. If you ever press pan/crop button and thewindow doesn't seem to pop up, check the tabs... it might be docked with anotherwindow. (Also, happens when the "video monitor" comes up missing. First check thetabs, if not, try looking at the list under "view" to see if its checked.)


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You can undock a window like this by clicking and holding the top left corner of the windowyou want to move (near the line of dots) From there you are free to move it to stand freely,or move it to dock with another area of the program. In this case, the pan crop window hasbeen restored to stand by itself.


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c. Loop region - If you ever try to play your project and its on a constantly repeatingloop, check the loop button and take the option off.

d. Audio Issues : Common audio track solutions

a. "Double" sound - sometimes an audio event (like a voiceover) gets accidentlycopied overlapping another one. You will hear both sounds conflicting when youplay your project.

To remove this, simply click and hold the extra event and drag it to another audio track,but in the same position. Now you can choose and click on the unwanted audio event,press the "U" key (to Un-group it from any other event) then press the delete key.


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No audio - each individual audio track has its own volume adjustment bar, as well as amute button. When muted, the audio track will be darker shaded.

In addition to the mute button for each audio track, there is also a solo button thatwhen pressed, will mute all tracks that arent in solo mode as well. Again, theunmated track is laminated normally, and all other audio tracks are shaded/muted.


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Now that you have the basics down, youll also want to take advantage of the extensive Helpsection Sony Vegas Movie Studio offers. Additional tutorials can be found online using googleto search for Sony Vegas Movie Studio tutorials.

Happy editing!

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