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How To: Begin using Sony Vegas

Getting started with Sony Vegas? In this three-part tutorial, learn the basics and what you need to know to get started using Sony Vegas.

How To: Create a bleach bypass effect in Sony Vegas

A great special effect for any film or movie is the space warp effect, like this bleach bypass effect. It's a little tricky to make, but once you know, fairly simple. Learn how to create a bleach bypass effect in Sony Vegas.

How To: Render video in Sony Vegas

One thing you need to know in particular about Sony Vegas is rendering. If you don't know how to render, you're not going to make a good film or video. So watch this and see how to render video in Sony Vegas.

How To: Make the enter and exit Matrix effect with Sony Vegas

Similar to the "dissolving person" effect, this shows you how to make it seem as though they have entered or exited the matrix.

How To: Create the Matrix punching effect in Sony Vegas

How to make it look like you punch at hyper-speed, just like Neo! You can make this cool effect in any editing system where you can change the opacity of the video.

How To: Create a ghost effect using Sony Vegas

This works with any version of Vegas, as well as many other editing programs, if you can change the opacity. If not, then you're out of luck.

How To: Create explosions in Sony Vegas

This is how to make explosions using Sony Vegas. You're going to need some stock footage for this, so be prepared to search the web. Then, you're on your way to cool explosions that destroy everything in its path.

How To: Create a photograph freeze using Sony Vegas

This is a really neat trick that makes it appear that someone takes a picture of the video, then the picture appears in a picture frame.

How To: Color correct in Sony Vegas

In this podcast tutorial Randall Bennett and Adam Nielson look at Sony's Vegas, Color Correcting and insight into some expensive storage and how much Randall hates P2 cards (he really does.) Stay tuned and learn how to color correct in Sony Vegas, amongst other things.

How To: Create a widescreen effect in Sony Vegas 7.0

In this software tutorial you will learn how to create a widescreen effect using the video event pan/crop tool in Sony Vegas 7. Sony Vegas 7 is an industry standard for video editing, so make your videos look professional by adding a widescreen effect.

How To: Create a TV simulation effect in Sony Vegas 7.0

In this video editing software tutorial you will learn how to create a television simulation effect in Sony Vegas 7. All you need to do is add the Sony TV Simulator Media FX tool, input the right values and you'll have a cool TV simulation effect on your video footage in Sony Vegas 7.

How To: Reduce quality on audio tracks to sound like phone

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to reduce quality on audio tracks to make it sound as if it's coming from a phone.

How To: Create the effects montage on Sony Vegas

Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to create an effects montage through Sony Vegas 6.0. Keep in mind that you can't reproduce the same effect in Sony Vegas Movie Studio or Platinum because these programs don't have the masking option.

How To: Add a chromakey effect with Sony Vegas Movie Studio

Bill Myers shows you the quick and easy way to create chromakey and green screen effects with Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

How To: Use Auto Ripple in Sony Vegas & Movie Studio

Bill Myers shows you how to use Auto Ripple to automatically adjust all audio/video elements when you modify a video.

How To: Solve the media offline problem in Sony Vegas

Bill Myers shows you a quick solution to the media offline problem in Sony Vegas and Sony Movie Studio.

How To: Set project properties in Sony Vegas & Movie Studio

Bill Myers shows you an easy way to quickly set project properties so the video displays better and smoother in Sony Vegas and Sony Movie Studio. This is great for when using different video formats.

How To: Create the moving mouth effect in Sony Vegas Pro

Bill Myers shows you how to create the popular motor mouth effect in Sony Vegas Pro using event Pan & Crop, and the mask effect.

How To: Animate text and titles in Sony Vegas

Bill Myers shows how to quickly animate text and titles in Sony Movie Studio and Sony Vegas using the intro title from the LOST TV show as an example.

How To: Create split screen & picture in picture in Sony Vegas

This short video shows how to get great split-screen or Picture in Picture effects in Sony Vegas using a free tool called PIP Selector tool.

How To: Fix screen layout problems in Sony Vegas

Bill Myers shows you how to recover the lost windows, tabs, effects or other screen layout elements on the editing screen in Sony Vegas or Movie Studio.

How To: Creating a photo slideshow in Sony Vegas Movie Studio

Bill Myers shows you how to quickly create a video from photos or photo slideshow in Sony Vegas Pro Movie Studio.

How To: Zoom with pan and crop in Sony Vegas or Movie Studio

In this tutorial Bill Myers shows you how to use Pan & Crop to zoom into or add motion to photos in Sony Vegas Pro or Movie Studio.

How To: Use Color Corrector in Sony Vegas Movie Studio

Bill Myers gives an easy guide to using color corrector in Sony Vegas and Movie Studio. Correct problems with white balance, green cast, and other color problems when editing video. You will need to have a licensed version of Sony Vegas to use the color corrector plug-in.

How To: Chromakey with Sony Vegas Movie Studio

Bill Myers shows you the secrets to getting great chromakey green screen blue screen effects with Sony Vegas or Sony Movie Studio.

How To: Add text titles in Sony Vegas & Movie Studio

Learn how to quickly add text titles and lower third graphics to your video editing or motion graphics projects in Sony Vegas and Movie Studio with this tutorial from Bill Myers.

How To: Speed up or slow down video in Sony Vegas

Bill Myers shows you how to use the Velocity envelope to speed up or slow down, or even run video in reverse in Sony Vegas - but not Movie Studio. Watch and see how easy it is to create fast and slow motion effects in the Vegas video editing software.

How To: Use the Sony Vegas Movie Studio audio equalizer

Watch this tutorial with Bill Myers and learn how to use the audio equalizer to sweeten the audio in Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

How To: Import video from DVD into Sony Vegas with Bill Myers

Here's how to grab video off of a DVD and import it into the timeline of Sony Vegas or Sony Movie Studio video editing program.

How To: Add a watermark or video bug logo in Sony Vegas

Bill Myers shows how to add a watermark or video bug in Sony Vegas. Overlay your logo on videos!

How To: Use slow motion and fast motion in Sony Vegas

See how to speed up or slow down video clips in Sony Vegas and Sony Movie Studio. Create slow motion or fast motion with these tips from Bill Myers.

How To: Create animated text and bullet lists in Sony Vegas

Bill Myers shows how to create animated text and bullet lists in Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

How To: Pan and crop in Sony Vegas with Bill Myers

This video shows how to use pan and crop in Sony Vegas Movie Studio. Created with Camtasia by Bill Myers.

How To: Render Sony Vegas videos for the best YouTube quality

Bill Myers shows you how to choose render settings for Sony Vegas movies to get the best results with YouTube videos.

How To: Create a depth of field effect in Sony Vegas

This tutorial shows you how to add a depth of field effect to footage in Sony Vegas. This focus effect example is of a train.

How To: Add moving text to lower thirds in Sony Vegas

This screencast shows you how to add text to your lower thirds. This example shows you how to bring it in from the left.

How To: Apply composite levels in Sony Vegas

In this screencast we show how easy it is to apply and use Composite Levels. This can be used when you have used two cameras to shoot some footage and you want to flip from one camera to the other. You might want to do this to show a different angle or to show a close up.