Vegas Movie Studio \ Vegas Pro - Beginner Tutorial

Navigate the timeline pane to import and arrange video and audio by dragging into the timeline, use the time ruler to jump to seconds, and control playback for the preview.

Navigate the Vegas movie studio menu bar to manage projects, add media, insert video and text tracks, and access help and settings such as render, make movie, and preferences.

Import audio and video tracks by dragging media onto the timeline, creating tracks. Trim, snap, fade, split with the s key, and time-stretch for transitions and slow- or fast-motion edits.

Explore the preview and timeline controls, including loop playback, play from start, go to start/end, frame navigation, and essential editing tools such as trim and split.

Master the pan and crop tool to zoom, rotate, flip, and crop video across tracks, adjust aspect ratio, snap and center anchors, and create picture-in-picture with two clips.

Explore video effects for Vegas Movie Studio Pro: apply to clips or tracks, adjust brightness and contrast, color corrector and curves, and blur types like linear and radial.

Learn to add and tailor text in Vegas Movie Studio and Vegas Pro, including inserting text media, choosing fonts and colors, and applying outlines and shadows.

Learn a time-saving trick in Vegas Movie Studio: copy pen and crop settings from the first clip to all clips using copy, select events to end, and paste event attributes.

Finalize and render your project by choosing render as or make movie, select avc hd or sony avc/mvc templates, and save to disk or upload to YouTube.