Training in Sony Vegas Pro 13. Video editing courses in Sony Vegas Pro. Delete an attached audio track

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Sony Vegas Pro courses - training in professional non-linear video editing using practical examples.

Purpose of the course:

• Teach students to use the entire arsenal of program tools, go through in practice with them all stages of installation (from organizing the project and importing files to outputting the final product).

Learning outcome

At the end of the Sony Vegas Pro/Sony Vegas Pro course you will be able to:

• edit any video materials;
• use all kinds of video editing tools;
• manage color correction;
• apply effects;
• create complex glue;
• work with picture and sound;
• create 3D simulation and use the capabilities of the VirtualDub program in Sony Vegas;
• output the final video editing product in any modern video format.

Basic training required to successfully master the Sony Vegas software package:

• Have the skills to work confidently on a PC.

Watch a video presentation of the video editing course in Sony Vegas Pro

Course curriculum

Lessons 1

• Introduction to Sony Vegas.
• Video standards.
• Program settings.
• Program interface.
• Import files and organize projects.
• Transfer video from camera, import sound from Audio CD.

Lesson 2

• Basics of working on Time Line.
• Video and audio editing Auxiliary functions.
• Final render.
• Standard transitions.
• Fine-tuning transitions. Rendering.
• Save project files in one place.

Lesson 3

• Adding and managing audio and video tracks.
• Text in Sony Vegas.
• Text on a transparent background.
• Creation of titles.
• Effects are the basic principles.
• Effects overview.

Lesson 4

• Using effects.
• Create a countdown screensaver.
• Setting up hot keys.
• Pixel aspect ratio.
• Fields, why they are needed.
• PenCrop tool.

Lesson 5

• Using keyframes to create animation.
• Slideshow of photographs using keyframes.
• Markers.
• Regions.
• Trimmer tool.
• Speed ​​up and slow down video.

Lesson 6

• Changing the volume level.
• Taking a screenshot (freeze frame).
• Render in various formats.
• Changing the video size in the render settings.
• Sound renderer.
• Grouping.

Lesson 7

• Video with alpha channel.
• Masks (for Sony Vegas).
• Practice working with masks.
• Replacing files in a project.
• Simulated 3D (for Sony Vegas).
• Blending modes.

Lesson 8

• Using overlay.
• VirtualDub program (for Sony Vegas).
• Practice color correction.
• Practice the picture-in-picture effect.
• Practice videos within text.
• Practice partial desaturation of video.
• Using different video standards in one project.
• Eliminating fields.

Sony Vegas Pro is a professional video editor for working with media files. It has extensive functionality and allows you to change a wide variety of parameters during installation. The program is universal and suitable for both amateurs and professionals - using Sony Vegas Pro is not difficult when compared to others professional applications It is for this reason that it has gained great popularity.

System requirements

Vegas Pro has a number system requirements, which allow the program to run smoothly. Supports Microsoft® Windows 7-10 (64-bit). Minimum processor requirements– it must be 4-core at least 2.5 GHz.

Also on PC there should be suitable video cards:

• NVIDIA®: starting from GeForce 9XX;
• AMD/ATI®: Radeon with 4 GB and VCE 3.0 or higher;
• Intel®: Starting with GPU HD Graphics Series

To install Vegas Pro directly, you will need 1.5 GB of hard disk memory. In addition, you need to provide 8 GB of RAM.

Required at the time of download and registration Internet connection.

Version selection

Now on the official website 4 versions available for download – Sony Vegas 13, 14, 15 and 16. There are no fundamental differences in working with the program. Of course, with each version the application acquires new functions and capabilities, but the general principle of operation remains unchanged. Therefore, our instructions for working with Sony Vegas will be relevant for both versions 13 and 16.

Program installation

The installation procedure is quite simple:

Interface overview

The Vegas interface is divided into several areas:

Installing codecs

A codec is a program that encodes and decodes multimedia files. Codecs themselves do not play media files, but they prepare them for playback on players and video editors. Therefore if video won't open, then the reason is most likely the lack of the required codec.

To work with Vegas Pro it is recommended to install immediately a package of codecs, so that in the future there will be no problems with opening files. It's called K-Lite Codec Pack.

How to create and configure a project

To create a new project, you need to launch Sony Vegas Pro and click on the “” icon on the toolbar.

For quality work in Vegas, it is recommended to first set up the project. Automatic setup used to preserve the original quality of the media file. Vegas Pro independently determines resolution, fields, frame rate and other parameters and, using this data, produces automatic setup, for this you need:

1. In a new window, find the same file that is in the workspace and click " Open».
2. Save all changes.

How to add media files

There are several ways to add media files to Vegas.

How to trim a video

Trimming is one of the main actions that will allow you to master basic installation skills:

For convenience, after removing all unnecessary parts, you can move the resulting fragment to the beginning by dragging it with the mouse.

Adding Effects

Sony Vegas has a large number of effects in its arsenal:

Setting up transitions

Transitions are used for smooth unification several fragments together. To set a transition, you need to move one record to another so that they slightly overlap each other.

Can adjust smoothness, moving the fragment to the right and left. In addition, you can set a special effect in the “ Transitions».

How to rotate a video

To rotate a video, you can use two methods.

The first method is not complicated, but is done manually:

The second method is usually used for automatic rotation at 90, 180 or 270 degrees:

How to speed up or slow down recording

There are several ways to change the speed in Sony Vegas.

The first method is the simplest and fastest; it changes both audio speed:

1. Press " Ctrl" and move the cursor to the edge of the fragment.
2. Using left mouse button move the edge to the right or left, thereby slowing down or speeding up the video.

The disadvantage of this method is that it cannot be used to change the speed by more than 4 times.

Second way:

This method only changes the video, but the audio speed remains the same.

The third method is to fine-tune the speed:

Creating titles and adding text

In Vegas Pro you can also work with text. You can create inscriptions, titles, and add animation to them.

Creating a Freeze Frame

A freeze frame is a static, that is, still frame. To create it in Sony Vegas you need:

How to zoom in on a video fragment

To zoom in on a frame, you only need to follow two steps:

How to stretch a video

To prevent black stripes from being visible on the sides of the frame, you can stretch it:

Reduce video size

After adding effects, animations, and other changes, the media file can take up a lot of space. Therefore, if desired, you can reduce its size:

Rendering acceleration

One of the most significant problems when working with Vegas Pro - rendering speed. Speed ​​reflects all applied effects and animations, so it often happens that one short recording can take more than an hour to process.

There are several ways to speed up rendering. The first is due to quality:

The second way is to speed up processing via graphics card. It can be used if the card supports the technology OpenCL or CUDA. Then in the settings in the “Video” section you need to find “ Encoding mode" and select one of them.

How to remove green background

Chroma key is a technology for combining media files using a green background (sometimes blue). To process a recording made using this technology in Sony Vegas, you need to:

How to remove noise from audio

Noise in audio recordings is an inevitable nuisance under poor recording conditions, but editing can eliminate this problem completely or partially:

Deleting an audio track

If the audio track is no longer needed, you can delete it. To do this, you just need to right-click on the track itself and click on “”.

How to change your voice

Video stabilization

In Vegas Pro, you can correct camera shake, sudden jolts or jerks when shooting:

How to put multiple videos in one frame

In Sony Vegas Pro, you can use a technique that allows you to play multiple videos simultaneously in one frame:

The position in the frame can be adjusted as desired; you can set them evenly or slightly overlap each other, creating an interesting frame.

Video or audio fading

Fade is used to fade media elements in or out.

How to create a video fade effect:

Audio attenuation is created in the same way:

Color correction

It is with the help of color that a certain mood and atmosphere is set in a professional environment. Therefore, color correction is often used during installation.

The first correction method is to use color curves in Sony Vegas:

1. Select from the list " Color curves».
2. The dot located on the line in the upper right corner is intended for highlight adjustments. If you pull it to the left in relation to the diagonal, it will lighten light tones, and if you pull it to the right, it will darken.

The dot on the left controls dark tones. The principle of working with it is identical.

The second method is a color corrector:

The third way is to change the color balance:

Using Plugins

Sony Vegas Pro is a professional program and it has a very wide range of tools, but you can expand this arsenal if you wish. Plugins are used for this. For example, here are several popular plugins: plugin. The only thing required is to specify the installation folder. It is recommended to select folder with the program, usually C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro\.

If the plugin was downloaded in *.rar or *.zip format, then it needs to be unpacked into the folder " FileIO Plug-Ins" It is located in the main folder.

Installed plugins are located in the “ Video special effects" If there are no plugins in this list, it means they are not compatible with this version of Sony Vegas.

Saving the project and outputting the video

It is important to save the project during work and upon completion of work so as not to lose data in the event of a failure. You can do this simply:

1. After that click on “ Save».

The next thing you need to figure out is the output of the final video. To do this you need:

1. In the " Project» select the best video rendering quality.
2. Click " OK", saving the settings.
3. In the main window, click on " Render».

After these steps, video processing will begin.

Possible mistakes

A wide variety of errors may occur when working with the program. Solutions vary depending on the cause, so it is often difficult to deal with the problem right away.

The most common mistakes:

• Unmanaged Exception;
• *.avi files cannot be opened;
• error when opening the codec.

Unmanaged Exception error

One of the most common errors is “Unmanaged Exception”. Because of her Vegas Pro can't start.

Error code 0xc0000005 can be the result of various reasons. For example, the following may become an obstacle:

Ways to solve the problem:

*.avi files cannot be opened

Another problem that may arise is a problem with opening videos in *.avi format.

There are a few simple ways eliminating it:

1. Download or update K-Lite Codec Pack. If the reason is the lack of codecs necessary for operation, then this will eliminate the problem.
2. Install player Quick Time latest version.
3. Remove codecs. Sometimes the cause of the error is the incompatibility of installed codecs with the program.
4. Convert video recording in a different format.

Error opening codec

It often happens that at the very beginning of working with a new program, an error periodically occurs when opening a video.

Most often, the reason lies in the lack of codecs necessary for operation. In this case it is recommended to install or update the codec set.

The next thing to do is install or update Quick Time.

If the previous steps did not help solve the problem, you can simply convert the video to another format.

Hi all! Today we will move on to video editing. And first of all I would like to give you detailed instructions, how to use Sony Vegas Pro 13, even if you are a novice user. Today this program is one of the best. Of course, you can’t argue that Adobe Premiere is better, but Sony Vegas is no less functional and easier to learn. Many professional video bloggers and editors use this application, and the videos they produce are simply excellent. Of course, we can’t fit everything into one article, but at least we’ll look at the basics, and then little by little we’ll get to something more serious.

Before starting the work itself, I’ll briefly tell you about the program interface. The Sony Vegas Pro 13 program includes several areas:

1. Main area (window). Various auxiliary parameters, effects, titles, as well as a media window into which all imported files will be loaded will be located here. You can hide and add windows as you wish.
2. View window. This window is necessary for video editing, since here we can view what we have achieved so far.
3. Artboard. This is where all the audio and video editing takes place. An edit consists of any number of tracks in which you can trim, splice, overlay media files, and much more.
4. Track management area. Essentially, this is part of editing, as it is responsible for managing tracks on the timeline and adding effects to them. We will talk about all this in more detail later.

The rest doesn’t matter for now, since everything will come on its own during training.

How to open a media file

In order to open any media file (photo, video, audio) in Sony Vegas Pro, you need to go to the “File” - “Open” menu. After that, select one or more files.

All downloaded files will automatically be placed on the required tracks (we will talk about them later), but if you don’t need them yet, you can remove them from there by selecting each of them and pressing Delete. They will still remain in the media window and you can grab them at any time by dragging them onto the track.

To simply transfer video or audio to the media window without adding it to a track, click on “File” - “Import” - “Media” and select any files from your computer.

Besides. You can open a file by dragging it from Explorer into the program itself. To do this, hold down the left mouse button on the video and simply drag it into the program window. If the application is minimized, then drag the file onto the application icon and wait until it opens itself.

The advantage of this method is that you can transfer the media file either directly to the track or to the media window. In this case, nothing will appear on the timeline, but you can move it there at any time.

Sony Vegas Basics

Let's look at how to use Sony Vegas Pro 13 using the example of creating a small clip. Let us initially have a couple of pieces of video and an audio file.

Preparation

Open all these media files and drag them all onto the tracks if necessary. You should have three tracks:

1. Video track for two videos
2. Audio track for the sound of these two videos
3. Separate audio track with sound file, which we will overlay.

If the video is long, the track size will automatically shrink to fit on the screen. But you can always zoom in using three methods:

• Mouse wheel up and down
• Click on the plus and minus buttons in the lower right corner of the screen.

Delete an attached audio track

Since we are making a separate clip with a new sound, we need to get rid of the accompaniment that initially comes with the downloaded videos, and when we drag it out, the accompaniment is automatically pulled as well. But if we try to select and delete the attached sound, the video clip adjacent to it will also be deleted. But there is a way out.

To do this, you need to click on the adjacent audio track so that it is highlighted, then right-click on it and select “Group” - “Remove from”, or the key U on keyboard. Then a degrouping will occur and they will separate from each other.

After this, you can safely click on the audio and press the key Delete. You need to do the same with the rest of the rollers on the tracks.

To prevent an empty track from taking up unnecessary space, right-click on its control block, and then select “Delete Track”. Now everything is clear...

Video editing: trimming and splicing

Now let's proceed directly to video editing in Sony Vegas Pro so that we get a full-fledged clip. I've already talked about this process in my article about, but now I will tell you about this in even more detail.

To begin with, we will trim only those parts of the video that we do not need, for example, we do not need the segment from 15 to 40 seconds at all. Then we stand at the fifteenth second of the track by clicking in the right place on the timeline (on the video). If you miss, you can move for the right time using the arrows on the keyboard.

Now press the key S on the keyboard, after which you will see that in this very place the track will split into two parts. If you need to separate the entire back part, then you don’t need to do anything else, and if you need to remove the whole segment, then in exactly the same way we go to the end of the unnecessary part of the track and press the S key again. You may notice that separation will occur again at this location.

Now, click on this segment so that it is highlighted, then right-click and select Delete, or press the key of the same name.

After this we will be left with a gap, that is, empty space after we cut out part of the track. In order to connect two parts and not leave a gap, left-click on the second part of the track and drag it to the first part. Towards the end, it will itself become magnetized to the backdrop. This way there will be no more gaps. By the way, you will also need to do the same with the second video, which we uploaded separately. But it would be great to make a beautiful and smooth transition, which I will tell you about in the next article.

If you need to remove only the end of the track, then you just need to move the cursor over the back area until its appearance changes, then hold down the left mouse button and drag it until everything unnecessary is gone. You can do the same with the beginning of the track. I usually use this trick to .

Well, the smooth fade out at the end will be the icing on the cake. To do this, stand on the corner behind the very last fragment of the track and start pulling slightly to the left using the left mouse button held down. In this case, a white semi-arc will be drawn on the fragment, which will indicate attenuation.

Duplicating a fragment

If any part of the track needs to be inserted somewhere else on the track, you can use one of the following methods:

Once you're done, be sure to see how it will look by pressing the play button and looking at the preview window. If everything worked out as it should, then we can start saving.

How to save video or audio in Sony Vegas pro 13

The program has two types of saving:

• Saving a working file is necessary for intermediate recording, so that the material can be edited at any time. It is an internal file of Sony Vegas Pro and saves only settings, operation and paths to edited files.
• Export the finished video (rendering). Once you render the video, you can no longer edit it, since it becomes a full-fledged audio-video file, that is, everything merges together.

Saving a working project

To make an intermediate recording while saving all the work, you just need to select the menu “File” - “Save As”. after that, select a location on your hard drive where the file will be saved.

You can also select “Export” from the same File menu, where you will need to click on Vegas Project Archive (Veg).

Export of the finished project

But when your Sony Vegas Pro project is ready and you need to save a separate file in audio or video format, then go to the “File” - “Render” menu.

You will have a whole bunch of formats in which you can save the finished project. There are already several nuances here:

1. At the top of the screen, select the path and name of the finished project. You can select the path by writing it manually, or specify the path to the folder by clicking the “Browse” button.
2. Next, select the format. If you are making a video for the Internet, for example for YouTube, then you can choose Main Concept (mp4). And in the group that opens, select the item "Internet HD 1080" to select the highest quality.
3. So that next time you don’t have to look required format, you can click on the star next to this item. Then it will change color. And next time all you have to do is tick the box "Show Favorites Only" to display only the formats you select.
4. Finally press the button "Render", then sit back and wait for the save to finish. Depending on the duration of the finished project and the elements with effects involved, the retention time will either be long or not very long. But in any case, you will need patience. I remember once making a video for a friend and his fiancee when they got married. So it seemed like it was only 4 minutes long, but it lasted for 2 hours. But there I simply stuffed an enormous amount of everything, including various footage.

Bottom line

I hope that now you understand the basics of how to use Sony Vegas Pro 13, and now you can make a simple video. But this is just the beginning.

If you want to really learn video editing at a cool level, then I recommend you watch this killer course on working in Premiere Pro. This is a rather complex but highly professional video editor. Thanks to these lessons, you will easily learn how to use it and be able to make really cool videos. Highly recommend.

Well, this is where I end my article. I hope that you found it useful and interesting. Stay tuned to my blog so you don’t miss anything important and interesting, especially as part of my new video editing section. Good luck to you. Bye bye!

Best regards, Dmitry Kostin