Sony Vegas for Complete Beginners

1. Sony Vegas for Beginners Welcome and Introduction : my course on video resting here on skill share. My name is Wayne and I really YouTube for the past five years creating aviation and flight simulation content on future. So one thing I I'm gonna say before we get into what we're doing on the course, you have to make sure you have a story to tell. Your story should be structured in my balanced. If you just mash clears together, it doesn't matter how your editing skills up the end result is no gonna be freezing to the viewer. So step number one is Make sure you have good content. A good story. Once you have that, you need to know the basics of video editing. You need to know how to inform video. You need to know how toe absolute fading effects prospects have to create tension on releasing videos, using music soundtracks on many other techniques that we're gonna be exploring, like slow motion things like that. So you'll learn all of those techniques in this course so that you could be a compelling and dynamic material for your preferred video platform. I'm really looking forward to working with you guys. This is gonna be done on Sony Vegas 17 but it will work across the Sony Vegas. It orations. So no matter what you do, you will be able to find these techniques on those different platforms Really looking forward to this guys, let's get stuck in, get you up and running with some basic video. 2. Workflow Overview and Importing a Clipmp4: Okay, So before we get started, we're gonna just have a look around and get familiar with the Sony Vegas Pro 17. So the first thing that we can look at is the project area. Now, this is where you import different types of media video, audio and photos. Whatever you want to bring in or smaller video clips, we'll go in here. This is your preview window, and you can select the quality that you want here. Obviously, the more quality you have, the more systems heavy is going to be. I've got a fairly decent set up here, so I'm gonna have it on best and four quality. So this is going to give me the best quality available. You can select your video properties here. Now, this is like a kind of framework for whatever you pull in. It's all going to match up to this on your output. We're gonna look at this in more detail a bit later on and right down here is your timeline . Now, this is where you actually do the editing. This is where your clip will appear on donned Let's import lip and show you So we go to import here we go to import media. The kid that I want to use is this one here. So I'm gonna import that in. We're then gonna drag this into the timeline here on. We want to match the settings to the actual media, so let's do that. 3. The Timeline Cutting and Initial Volume Adjusting: Okay, so now you can see two bars. Here we have the top bar, which is the actual video footage on. Then we have the audio for that footage underneath. At the moment, these are kind of joined together. You can't separate them, will look at that a bit later on. But the first thing I tend to do is I want to edit out or the rubbish that I don't want in my video clip. This is a long clip. This is over half on hour, long way too long for the actual content of this clip. It's not gonna be compelling if I just leave it like this. So the first thing I do is I want to start the video with a nice, smooth entrance. So I don't just want toe. If I go here and click play, you'll see what happens. The video will just stop Andi because this is unedited. You can see I have the end. Video recording has started here. I've got various things that I don't really want. Heavy breathing keyboard clicks, mouse clicks. And then, of course, this menu system, which I don't want, is no benefit for the viewer to see all this. So I want toe start the video once the screen is kind of clean and, you know, we're about to start with the voice so I don't need to edit all this hour. This is junk. So that reason really easy way to do it is to go to the edge of the clip on, drag it to where you want the video to stop. So that essentially gets rid of that. I'm gonna show you another way how to do that a bit later on. So now at least we've got rid of all of that arm. Wanted beginning stuff. Hello there, guys win here from Luna's world on then the video and the audio coming quite abruptly. You can see here we've peaked on the upper meter. So this is gonna hurt someone's years. Basically, we need to bring this down again. There's two ways of doing it. This is the master volumes, which so we can Now we can do it here. I like to do it visually, using this here. This will again if we zoom out. This is the whole clip. So whatever I do here is gonna just for the whole clip, so that's kind of okay, we want that because we don't want any really loud sections that gonna blast someone's here . So let's have another listen to that. Hello? The guys win. If so, that's a much more acceptable level. Getting up to about six eso that's that's looking good to me. 4. Fading in/out and Editing for a Compelling Storyline: all right. The next thing we need to do is to create a smooth start to the video, both with the audio and the video. So I like to do this together. So I'm pressing shift on my keyboard and I'm highlighting both. They turn yellow. That's how you know you've done it properly. And then which is gonna click up to this corner section here and you can see that when you do that, you get this sort of semi circle, and we're gonna want toe press and drag this towards the audio where the audio starts. Now, what this is gonna do is gonna fade in the audio and the video at the same time. We can check out the effect the guys from, so that's really nice. That's a nice transition of my smooth transition. You can adjust these individually, so if you want the video to take a bit more time to come in or maybe the audio In fact, we could probably afford to do that. Let's have a look at what that looks like. Hello. The guys win here from Not that works. So that's that bit sorted. Let's push that back to the beginning. Make sure that you always start, you know, at 00 on. Then, as I mentioned, there's a lot of stuff in here that I'm gonna want to edit out. The goal with video editing is to create compelling video content, and we don't want any rambling any kind of areas where we stumble with our words. So this is the painstaking process you have to get, especially if it's a long clip like this. You have to go through. You have to get rid of stuff that is not really adding value to the video clip on. And in my case, I like to ramble a lot. It's quite extensive, so let's just play. So this is the engine starting. That's all good. Okay, stop procedure is done. Let's taxi. Or now on. This is quite interesting. You know, this is the take off roll days. Like I'm just gonna turn this down. So this is all quite interesting to the viewer. So my my channel is dedicated to flying aviation flight simulation on People love to see the takeoff. So, you know, this is all good stuff here, so I can scroll along. This is nice. Here so again, this is quite interesting, but that is quite a long time. We look there, that's 10 seconds of nothing really happening. Um, actually, it's a bit less than that, but we can edit that out. So I've just skylighted the area that I want to come. I've pressed the s key on my keyboard that will insert this cut here and then going to go to where the audio restarts. And I can see that from the peak here. That's just, uh, get a little bit place I'm gonna press s again. And then we highlight this middle cliff when we just press delete that gets rid of that all together. Now we need to net these two things together. Let's just bring our highlighter here or scroll. And then we just literally pushed these clips together That is going to create a cross fade . And we need to just check what that looks like. And sounds like, Okay, it's very, very quick. So let's push it in further. This is number of milliseconds, So let's try that. Yeah, probably a little bit quick. Okay, that's getting that will be afford. It would be a bit more okay a little bit off of that. Okay, that works. So in the next part of video, I say that, you know, this aircraft is quite slow on. It's gonna take a quite a long time to get up there where nothing really is gonna be happening. So I'm just sort of saying, you know, I'm gonna edit the video. He didn't have to do that. I've just got into the habit of doing it, and my viewers are kind of used to that. So however, I do still talk, So this is kind of always irrelevant, Really. I'm just describing what I'm doing. And this is a technique that I use just to just to practice. Really? So I knew at the time that I wasn't gonna include this video, But I keep talking because I have to still sit through and get up there on Bond. I might as well use that time productively. So I used that time to practice talking on Do you know, in the in the knowledge that I'm not gonna use it, but I try not to ramble. I try my hardest to keep on topic, but anyway, like I said, it's no really relevant or very interesting. So what I'm doing now is I'm looking for and nice in place to re bring the video back. You can see this is a lot of waffle. A couple of minutes of nothingness. Eso I'm looking for a nice point to insert the video or right. So I think I found a nice entry point here. So we have now climbed up to one altitude. We found this sort of tabletop mounting here that we're gonna attempt to land on. So here, I'm just starting to talk about, you know, landing on here and, you know, looking forward to doing it. So that's a nice story. Kind of input there. We're gonna click s suppress s on my keyboard. I'm gonna delete this entire bunch of waffle here on, then again go through the same process and knit these two things together and just see, that's one second. Let's try that. It's evidence over. Okay, so that looks pretty decent to me. Um, so that's in my sir, a nice input point there to carry on the story. The next phase off 5. Cropping and Adding Soundtracks: So there's one thing that I've noticed, actually that I'm gonna talk you through. There's an area off the video that I don't want to appear in the clip at all. So we need to use the crop tool. Teoh, remove it. So we're going to click on this here. This is the event Pan and Crop brings up this video here. We can make this a bit larger. Fact Onda, we can zoom in. So now this is the display that we're looking at here on. I want to get rid of this. This is my FPs counter, you know, doesn't really add anything to the video. In fact, it's a little bit distracting. So I'm going to click here, and I'm gonna just bring this in now. It maintains the aspect ratio so we don't get any of those annoying black bars. It's all within the same frame. We can move it around if you want to, to make it central. But that's good for me. That that will work on that has now applied it to this clip. Now, this is a separate clip, so we're gonna have to do it again here. Otherwise, if we click on here. You'll see that this comes back. So we click on the same talk on. All I'm gonna do is just scroll in until that has disappeared. And that looks good to me. And that's it. That's done. So now the rest of this part, this is all quite interesting. This is the landing, Andi. Okay, so this is all good. And then we do a take off. Oops. Very bumpy. Were flying. Yes, we are. That is. OK, so that's actually quite a fun little section there. That is. They don't need the repeat there. So I'm gonna click on s and then find a new place that I want to show off. So again, I'm sorting out something within the SIM here. Don't want that to be displayed. Carry on talking there. All right. Came out this section. I'm not I can see here. I'm not talking, but it is quite beautiful. So I'm gonna click s here. I'm gonna delete this whole scene on again. I'm gonna just zoom in here, knit this together. Oh, that is funny. Okay? And that works quite nicely. So now, but now I'm not talking. So now the narrative of the story is is kind of dead. But what we can do is add some music in here just to, I don't know, polish off this cinematic sort of little interlude. I like to get my music from the YouTube audio library on for this particular little clip. I want something that's quite calm, Andi Cinematic. So I've just narrowed it down a little bit, and I don't want anything that's too long. Maybe 30 to 1 minute seconds. That's given us one choice. That's have a quick listen. Okay? No, really the right kind of a thing. So we're gonna have to increase. Let's try this. This is quite nice. Okay, that's it. That's a maybe. Let's increase this again. Give us more choice now. Right? Um, a quiet thought. Let's have a listen. Okay. I like that. That's kind of nice and calming. So we're going to save that Onda. And you know, you got to make sure that it is free to use things song and monetize your video. So if you if you write, if you do YouTube content and you have something that is copyrighted, the any money that you weren from ads will go to the that the owner of the copyright in the music. So you gotta make sure that that is definitely copyright free. Right? So now we go ahead and import our music. You navigate where you saved it. It was this one. And then we can import the video music clip here. Now you can see it's quite long, Onda. We don't need it for very long. A tool, in fact. So I'm going to just clip this all the way up here. Whoa, that is for that. Looks quite nice. Um, I'm talking in this clip. I don't really think it adds anything. So again, I'm gonna, um, section this clip off so I can reduce the volume here. Oh, that is for and actually add to the drama of the scene so we can't hear the engine. And we've got an abrupt slowdown there in the clip. So that's a bit of a shame, actually. You know what? I'm gonna delete that clip. I'm gonna fast forward to another cinematic part again because there's a lot of All right, so that's that's good. So we're gonna get rid of all that. So the same process drinking in I'm just gonna try this out a little bit. Were we flying? Yes, we are. Okay, so now I'm gonna fade the music in by doing this. So now we have this nice cinematic scene on the music will end. This is the end of this musical clip, even in school. And then we're back into the narrative there. So but again is quite abrupt. So I'm going Teoh changed that are just fading that in what do a nice slow fade. And the music is still fading out here. Yeah, I think we can do that. All right. So let me just get to the point that I want to edit. Now, we have some outside scenes here, so I might bring the video. The audio clip back in again at the beginning of that clip is a little bit jerky. So I'm just gonna get rid of that And bring that in. Fred that in nicely. So now we have Oh, dear. Even more jerky. OK, let's get rid of all that jerky movements in video. 10. Not to be what you wanted to achieve, So this is nice and smooth. So again, a bit of a jerky moves there. So I'm using the space bar on the numerical keep had just to get to where the frame starts on, then click on. Yes. And then I know that be done. I think this is a lie. All right, so now we just find another nice, smooth clip. Let's go in. Okay, so now I'm choosing a landing point. So that's a nice, uh, addition to the story. So I'm gonna get that together. Yeah, I think I think somewhere here. Good. Maybe here. Yeah, maybe grounds. 6. Granula Volume Control Mixing Voice and Soundtrack: I like the music in there, but it's it's feels a little bit too loud on. I don't want to reduce the whole thing. Maybe I want to create as I'm talking, I want to create a little dip in the music. And then because I'm not talking here, maybe I want to increase the music up. So this is what we do. You click on the consuming, find out where you want the audio to dip. So I think about here. This is where my voice comes in on. I'm gonna click here. I'm gonna press. Make sure that the audio clip is highlighted with the yellow on. Make sure that your cursor is where you want the clip to start decreasing in volume. Press V. That's gonna bring up this blue line here, and I want to start the decrease in volume right here. I'm gonna double click. That gives me a little marker. Andi, I'm gonna increase the volume around here because it looks like I'm not talking. So double click there. Okay, so I'm gonna create another market here. I'm gonna bring this down like that about there. We don't want to fade out the music completely. Um, so I need to trick there, create two points. Let's see, This might be a little bit too sharp. Let's have a listen. Yeah, maybe here. Maybe we'll come round. That's nice. All right. Decision made insanely good old textures here. Beautiful. That's really nice. Okay, I'm happy with that. Okay. Except this is quite a boring part of the video here. So again, I can forward this maybe to about here, Like a good chunk of this out. Maybe to about here something like that. Andi, bring this back in. Nice. Yeah. So I'm gonna treat this is like So now I have a scene where, you know, we're doing a landing here, and I can probably lower the lower the volume again. But this time I'm gonna cut the clip here, and I'm gonna lower the whole of the volume because I know it's quite a long, um, period off, you know, video that I want to display. How'd that make sense, Harry? Down there? It's not smooth that so I could decrease habit more. So it's still there in the background. But it puts the focus very much on what's happening on the screen. Okay, So this is the landing. And then actually the click runs out here. But that's fine. What works quite well. Okay. So basically, you go through and you keep doing that. You keep anything yet Until you have a nice story that transitions. You know, between the scenes smoothly, you can now add some audio. I'll bring you guys back once. Once we have. Once I have edited out all of the junk that I don't want. 7. Creating Tension: Okay, so I have finished the editing of taking out everything that I don't want in on. Ive also added a bit more music. We had a tense sort of period here where basically, we had an engine failure. So I created this sort of more dramatic effect by adding in some impending do film trailer music. And then when we actually succeeded in landing, I brought in this kind of slightly happier, upbeat music kids. So we just have a quick listen to this on. You get an idea for the flavor the narrative of the story glide ratio on the way. Dead stick landing. Here we go. What a fun way to end this episode. Okay, here we go. Wish me luck. Just get away with and what? Break, break, break, break, break, break, break. Let's go down the road. Okay, so they goes that that creates a nice little bit of tension. There 8. Time Stretch for Ultra Tense Moments: Okay, So what I want to do to add to the drama is I want to create a little section of this initial firing down towards the room way. I want to make a slo mo clip here. So that kind of means, basically, I need to split the clip like that. Andi, we might end up having to move this a little bit. Let's just move this out the way for a second. Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hold down the control button. You can see that wiggly line. This is Time Stretch, and I'm gonna just stretch out this portion. Not for very long. Maybe, like two seconds. Something like that. Andi, we'll just see that transition. Okay, so it's no enough. So I need to hold it down again and really stretch it out on. That's Ah, blend. They said, Let's see what that looks like. Okay, so that's quite nice. Let me put another, um, clicking there. And actually, I could get rid of this clip right here, but I actually want this clip to be closer to the ground will meet when we do the slow mo. So I my end up doing something like this Just get away with. Okay, so that's kind of cool. And then, in fact, now I need to find the point of touchdown. Actually, just before touchdown, just before I say the word. Come on. About that. So again, Going to get rid of that, going to stretch this out, and I'm gonna blend that into there. Come on. Great. Great. Break break. Okay, I'm going to stretch this out a bit more. Come on. Okay, let's have a look of that. Come on. Okay. I'm not fairly happy with that. I think I need to slow this clip down a little bit. Great. Great. Great. Break, break, break, break. Let's go down the right. Okay, so I'm just get again. Just crop. Make sure of crop that scene out. Because this is a new sort of copy of the clip, if you like. Imported. So one. Bring break, break, break, break, break, break, break. Let's go down. Right. Break, break, break, break, break. Let's go down the right. Flowers, trees, flowers road. All right, So then I've decreased the volume of the music here to coincide with that sort of release of tension, so yeah, So music is a very, very powerful tool for your videos. Especially if you're creating sort of cinematic scenes with lots of drama, lots of scenes that change between dramatic and the serene on. This is kind of what this clip is about. So now we're down to just over 10 just yet. Literally. Just over 10 minutes, which is perfect. That's great for a YouTube clip. Um, let's just see how it ends here. Yeah, I'll see you in the next video. Take care, guys. Okay, so again, abrupt end on. And, um, I want to kind of start to fade out some of that, um, some of those sounds here, in fact, what I might do soon as I've said the word there, I think I'm gonna just get rid of lips. Just select this one. Now, this is a thing. If I want to separate this track from this track, I can select, say, three audio compress you. So if I If I move this, they're both gonna move. So sometimes you're required. You need to separate them. So I'm gonna press this. I'm gonna hit you on my keyboard. And now I have full control over these independently. So if you're doing a voice over, then you need to be able to move audio, you know, separately from the video. So actually, we can get rid of that. We don't need that. A tool video. Take a nice I'm making just sort of fade out. Yeah, I'll see you in the next video. Take care, guys. Maybe do a long fade out here. Yeah, and this clip is a little bit too long. Okay, that's looking good. That's perfect. So again, weaken. Just, uh we can just tidy this up by removing that last bit. Okay, so I think my video is ready to go. I would normally watch it all the way through before I go on render. But hopefully you have learned quite a few basic skills in order to edit a video, get it up onto YouTube. So we're not gonna look a tsum rendering settings on bond. Then render out this video 9. Rendering your Masterpiece: so we're not gonna look a TsUM rendering settings Onda then render out this video. So the way we do that is, first of all, we need to select what we want to render. Obviously, we want to render the whole thing so hopefully you can see this. I can click into the space between the timeline and the top bar here, and I just create these two points with the yellow Marcus. And that's what is that's basically going to render between those two lines. They make sure they're nice and lined up, and you've got your all of your footage and audio within those two markers. Then we go up to here. We click on Render. As now, you'll get presented by quite a complicated set of parameters. Now there's very many presets or formats that you can use to to for your particular needs. For me, for YouTube, I click on this one Magic a VC in a a C MP four. Andi again because I haven't NVIDIA graphics card. I want to select theme, the one that has Thean video and envy in C or N Vink, so that uses my GPU to render out the video. That way I get a faster render. And yeah, it utilizes the graphics card instead of the CPU. Okay, so we're gonna want to customize this. I wanted a 10. 80 p at 60 frames per second. So if you want a more cinematic effect, you can try 25 FPs, for example. Actually, we might do that. Let's try that. So let's go for 10. 80 p at 25 FPs on again in video that so we're gonna customize this template. Most of this is already done and dusted, but you just want to double check everything in here. So make sure that your frame size is set to 10. 80 in 1920 by 10. 80. Um, your frame rate is what your desired frame rate is. In my case, 25 frames aspect ratio. Leave that alone. Andi, you can set here. You're bit rate. I'd like to create the highest quality possible. So I'm actually not the highest I, but I like to make it as crisp as I can. So I set the maximum 2135 on. Then the average is going to be 50. This is going to give me a really nice quality. You cannot do this if you want, but it's gonna take longer to render number of slices. I leave alone and video encoder. That's what we want preset. I always click on high quality on. Then I just select a VB on here. You want to make sure that you include audio at your sample rate, so that's fine. Bit rate is fine as well. Um, Sister Mia, that's so good. I leave that there and again I set rendering quality to best on project settings for that click. OK, name your video. So we're gonna call this Mo Creek Mountain Mountain adventure something like that before and we click render. Here we go on. Now it's gonna render around the video. That means it's going to go through all of the frames is gonna put all this stuff together on Render it into a beautiful video. So, congratulations, you have made your first video with Vegas Pro 17. In fact, it doesn't have to be version 17. It could be any version of Sony Vegas. These tools thes tips, Airil the same. So I hope you for got something out of this guy's. I'd love to see your video projects. So post a link where I can go and check it out on. Uh, yeah. Oh, see you very soon. Take care.