Sony vegas pro 13 training lessons. Sony Vegas - the essentials for beginners

Of course, it is worth noting some disadvantages of the program:

The listed disadvantages for most fans of home video editing are most likely insignificant, and are more than offset by the advantages, especially convenience, stability in operation, stability and quality of the result. For those for whom it is important to have high-quality and handy tool To edit video, we suggest you start reading the description of how to use the program.

2. Getting started

In our country, most video cameras comply with the PAL TV standard, so after launching the Sony Vegas program, we will create a project in this format. To do this, call the File/New menu, and in the window that appears for creating a new project, select New Project from the list Template PAL format DV:

In this case, the frame size and frequency will be automatically selected, as well as the order of the half-frames (fields) Lower field first. It is recommended to immediately enable some options:

If you need to create a project in a different format (for example, HDV), you need to select the appropriate template in the Template list.

It is advisable to immediately enable the option Start all new projects with these settings, and all subsequent projects will be immediately created with specified settings. It is also recommended to specify the following sound parameters in the Audio tab:

For the convenience of displaying time stamps, it is better to select the Time & Frames format in the Ruler tab:

After this, you can click OK and start working on the created project. It is recommended to immediately save the created project using the menu command File/Save As...

3. Description of the main window

The main program window consists of several main parts (from top to bottom):

This is the default content of the program window. The main convenience of the program interface is that almost any section can be “dragged” with the mouse by the title and placed elsewhere in the window, changing its size as convenient for the user. If you have two monitors, any section can also be “dragged” onto the second monitor, which further increases the convenience of work. If some section is not needed, you can close it by clicking the cross in its upper right corner, and, if necessary, show it again using the View menu commands.

If the video you want to edit is already on your hard drive, you can skip the next section. If the video is not yet on your hard drive, you can enter it from a video capture device or from a digital video camera.

4. Video Capture

By default, capture is carried out with automatic video division into scenes. The beginning of the next scene is determined by the moment the camera starts shooting, and the end - by stopping shooting. In this case, each scene will be placed in a separate video file (for the DV format this is a file with the AVI container format, for HDV - with the MPEG2 Transport Stream format, a file with the m2t extension).

For DV/HDV cameras, video capture is carried out automatically - the program itself will start the camera when input starts and stop when recording on the tape ends (of course, input can be stopped manually if necessary). It should be noted that for digital video cameras it is not actually capturing, but simply copying video and audio data “as is” into digital form, without any processing, recompression or loss of quality.

At the end of the capture, the program will offer to add all the resulting files to the window with the source files of the project (Project Media), from where they can easily be added to the timeline by simply dragging the mouse.

It should be noted that modern hard disk drive (HDD), DVD and Flash camcorders do not require video capture as such. Data from the camcorder media can be transferred to a computer simple copying either from a DVD or from the camera as a removable disk media by connecting it via USB. Sometimes this is done using the software that came with the camera. More details on how to do this for a specific camera are usually written in the user manual and/or in the description of the software that comes with the kit.

For Sony DVD cameras, you can copy video to your computer and Vegas editing project using the File/Import/DVD Camcorder Disc menu command.

The capture module also allows you to output the video file back to the camera tape (provided that the file format exactly matches the camera format and the digital input is not blocked). To do this, in the View menu you need to switch to the Print to Tape mode, and then use the Transport/Print to Tape menu commands.

If you need to display the result of editing a project on tape, then in the main Sony Vegas program you need to use the menu commands Tools/Print Video to Tape (for a DV camera) or Tools/Print Video to HDV Tape (for an HDV camera).

Naturally, to input video from DV/HDV cameras, you can also use third-party capture programs - for example, ScanalyerLive for DV.

However, it is recommended to use the built-in tools for HDV input. Various sources report that HDV files entered using the HDVSplit program can cause editing problems and even cause Sony Vegas to fail because... HDVSplit generates not entirely correct m2t files. We hope that this will be fixed in future versions of the programs.

5. Built-in tutorial

The tutorial is called by the Help/Interactive Tutorials menu command. In the window that appears, you need to select a lesson by name (for example, An Overview of Vegas - general review program elements), and then it will be presented as a sequence of pages with instructions, with a transition between them using the Next button. The clarity of these instructions is enhanced by the fact that if the text mentions any element of the program window, it is surrounded by a red frame. Moreover, if the element was turned off (hidden), then it will be proposed to perform an action (for example, call a menu item) that allows this element to be activated (showed).

In addition, in some steps the user is asked to carry out various actions himself: press a button, click on the window title, call a menu command, perform an action with a clip on the video track, etc. And the lesson will not continue until the user completes the required action. Since explanations are immediately provided of why this is needed and what will happen as a result, the process of mastering the program becomes simple and clear, and the actions are easy to remember. We can say that the textbook is not just a set of instructions, but a virtual teacher, using an example to show the desired sequence of actions.

For many, the main drawback of the textbook (and indeed the program itself) is that, unfortunately, it is presented only on English language. We hope that the following sections of this article will help to some extent compensate for this shortcoming, and will allow you to understand the basics of using Vegas for fast and effective video editing.

6. Start of installation

If the file format is not supported, then an inscription with information about the format does not appear, and if there are problems determining the format, then the following inscription appears in the format field: “Stream attributes could not be determined.” This usually means that the video or audio format in the file does not have the appropriate codec installed (Vegas, like other editing programs, supports Video standard codecs for Windows for video and Audio Compression Manager for audio, but does not support DirectShow decoders). For MPEG2 files, MainConcept's MPEG plugin must be installed and registered. IN latest versions Vegas must first be installed to support MPEG files DVD program Architect

Sometimes it happens that codecs are installed, but the AVI file format is not recognized in the program for no obvious reason. This happens if the headers in the file are not entirely correct (do not fully comply with the Video for Windows standard). This can be fixed if you open the AVI file in VirtualDub and save it to a new one in direct stream copy mode (select Direct Stream Copy in the Video and Audio menu). After such an operation, the file usually opens successfully (of course, if the necessary codecs for video and audio are available in the system).

Once the file's attributes are defined, it can be dragged and dropped onto the timeline. It will automatically create appropriate tracks for video and/or audio (depending on what data is in the file). If the file contains both video and audio (for example, an AVI file from a DV camera or a movie), then the video and audio automatically fall into a group of two clips that are moved together. To process them individually, the group must first be divided (more on this below). A wave picture will be built for the sound, which will take some time (depending on the duration of the sound in the file). At the same time, next to source file a file with the extension .sfk will be created, in which the wave image is stored, and subsequently the same file will be opened (for example, in another editing project) almost instantly, because There is no longer any need to re-construct the wave image of sound.

If you select many files at once in the Explorer section and drag them onto the timeline, they will be automatically added to the tracks as a sequence of clips. In this way, you can carry out the simplest “end-to-end” installation with overlapping clips - at the junction point the clips will overlap each other “overlapping”. The amount of overlap can be set in the Options/Preferences window, Editing tab, using the Amount parameter of the Cut-to-overlap conversion group - it determines how many frames the video clips will overlap (if you specify 0, then there will be no overlap). You also need to enable automatic overlap - enable the Automatically overlap multiple selected media when added option. In this case, you can specify what type of transition will be used between video clips by selecting it in the Video default list of the Envelope fade types group. By default, the transition type is Smooth (also known as Dissolve), which is most often used in editing.

You can also place images from graphic files(all common ones are supported graphic formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and others). When adding an image, a video clip with a still image is automatically generated, the default duration of which is set by the New still image length parameter in the same settings window. If a non-zero clip overlap value is specified (see above), then clips obtained from pictures will also automatically overlap each other by the specified amount. Thus, by setting the desired duration, overlap and transition type, you can get a slide show of pictures with one mouse movement by “dragging” them from the explorer section onto the video track. If automatic overlap is not needed, disable the corresponding option.

After necessary files placed on the tracks, you can proceed to the actual editing of video and sound.

7. Installation Basics

Selecting the desired clip (in the program clips are conventionally called “events” or Events) is done by clicking on them. If you need to select several clips at the same time, you need to click on them sequentially while holding down the "Shift" key. To exclude a clip from the selection, you need to click on it again along with “Ctrl”.

Let's look at the simplest operations performed when editing video.

The duration of the effect is determined by how far you "drag" the mouse to the right from the beginning of the clip - then release the left button. Now, in the place where the effect ends, there is a vertical line - you can “drag” it with the mouse left and right, changing the duration of the effect (the value is shown in the “Fade Offset” tooltip). Try playing the clip from the beginning and see how the effect looks, and adjust the duration according to your design.

The FadeOut effect is applied in the same way, only it is applied on the upper right edge of the clip rectangle, and the mouse must be moved to the left. FadeIn/FadeOut effects can be applied independently to audio, allowing the sound volume to fade smoothly from silent to normal volume and vice versa.

If you right-click over the arc, you can select the shape of the effect profile in the Fade Type submenu. Shape affects the smoothness and speed of changes in volume for audio or transparency for video. Experiment and choose the profile that best suits your application (usually the default profile shape is suitable in most cases).

Then move (by clicking the mouse on the desired place, or using the left/right keys) the current position (vertical cursor) to the left of the end of the first clip to the moment where the “bleeding” should begin - for example, a second before the end of the first clip:

Click in the middle of the second clip and, holding down the left mouse button, drag the clip to the left so that its beginning overlaps the end of the first clip. Move the clip until its beginning “sticks” to the current position, exactly in the right place:

The duration of the transition in seconds will be shown on top of the transition. Note that you need to move the entire second clip, not its left edge. This will also give the effect of one clip transitioning to another, but the result will be different, because The duration of the second clip will change.

By default, the "Cross Dissolve" transition effect is applied between clips, which is usually sufficient in most cases (besides being simple, it's the least intrusive-looking). You can choose the shape of transition profiles (how video transparency and audio volume will change during a transition) by right-clicking over a transition and selecting the desired combination of profiles from the Fade Type submenu (25 options in total).

If you want to apply another transition effect, then a fairly wide selection of them ("sheet folding", "curtains" and others) is available in the "Transitions" tab at the bottom of the main window:

On the left is a list of transition types, on the right are some typical sets of effects (Presets) for the selected transition. If you move the mouse cursor over any icon, its animation will clearly demonstrate exactly what the selected effect looks like. The letters A and B conventionally show the first and second clips, respectively, between which the transition is made.

To apply an effect, first “stack” two clips on top of each other (see above), then select desired effect in the Transitions window, and drag the effect icon onto the transition between clips. This can be done as many times as you like, using different transition effects to choose the one that suits you best. Some standard transitions can be quickly applied by setting the current position to the transition between clips, and pressing the "/", "*", "-" keys on the small (numeric) keyboard, or by right-clicking over the transition and selecting the desired transition in the submenu Transition.

If you move the mouse cursor to the cross-shaped icon on the right side of the transition between clips on the track (the inscription “Transition Properties” will appear), then clicking on it will bring up the transition parameters settings window:

Each transition type has its own parameters, and it is impossible to describe them all within the scope of this article. Let us only note that changing the transition parameters allows you to obtain an unlimited variety of effects. The configured set of parameters can be saved in Preset, and a corresponding icon will be added to the effect selection window, allowing you to quickly apply the saved effect.

The listed set of operations (moving, cutting, deleting, “trimming” clips, applying FadeIn/FadeOut, as well as transitions between clips) form the basis of almost any, even the simplest non-linear editing.

8. Additional techniques

Each video track represents a certain “layer” with an image. If there are several tracks, then the image in them is superimposed on each other in layers: the one above it is superimposed on the lowest track, and so on, from bottom to top. This happens exactly in the order in which the tracks are located vertically on the editing table - the first track from the top is superimposed on the second, the result of the overlap is superimposed on the third, etc. In this case, the tracks are mixed with each other through the so-called alpha channel, or transparency mask (by default, each track is completely opaque). Thus, working with many tracks is carried out similarly to working with layers in the Adobe Photoshop graphics editor.

Each video clip on a track has its own "opacity" level, or Opacity. If you move the mouse cursor over the top edge of a video clip until the cursor changes to the shape of a hand with a finger pointing up, you can see the current opacity level in a tooltip (by default, all clips are opaque, with an Opacity level of 100%):

If you hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor down, you can make the video clip semi-transparent, up to full transparency (Opacity value 0%). If there is only one video track in the project, then in the Video Preview window and on the frames of the clip itself you will see that the image darkens to black. This happens because there is always a black background underneath the bottom track, and when blended with it, the translucent clip becomes darker.

To the left of the video track is the so-called Track Header window, on which its number is written, and there are also track controls (see the figure above). If you move the mouse cursor over a button or icon in the title window, a tooltip appears with the name of the element. Let's look at the purpose of some elements:

We'll need a description of the track title later, but for now let's look at an example that uses overlaying one track on another - overlaying titles on a video. Let's say the video material is on the first video track. You need to add a video track above so that the image on it overlaps the existing video. Right-click above the video track title and select the Insert Video Track menu item. An empty video track will appear, and the existing one will appear below it, moving to the second position. We will add captions to it.

To do this, in the lower section of the program window, find the Media Generators tab and select Text, the Soft Shadow icon is text with a “soft shadow”. Drag the effect icon onto the first video track. A video clip will be created that generates text with a shadow, and by overlaying the first video track with the second, the text will be superimposed on the video. To edit the text, click the Generated Media... button on the right side of the clip (if the button is not visible, increase the track height by dragging the horizontal line between the first and second video track titles). In the window that appears, there are several tabs that allow you to edit the text (as well as select the font style and size - Edit) and change its position in the frame (Placement), set the color of the text and background (Properties), the color of the border (it can be turned on/off and changed thickness), shadow thickness and intensity (Effects). You can also deform text in several ways (to do this, you need to enable the Enable Deformation option).

Move the borders of the text clip to the desired location, press the Play button and see the result. You can also set FadeIn/FadeOut to make the titles fade in and out. The picture shows an example where the credits start appearing a second after the start of the video, fade in for two seconds, and fade out at the end. The result is immediately visible in the Preview window.

In addition to static text with a given color and shadow, there is a Credit Roll generator that allows you to show scrolling text, like at the end of a movie (credits can also appear one after another with various effects). Starting from version 8, the program has a new text generator - ProType Titler, which allows you to create more complex titles with additional effects And various options text location, rotation, and others. However, this is where the possibilities for adding titles in the program are exhausted. Those who need more complex titles will have to install additional plugins (for example, ProDAD Heroglyph).

Let's look at another example - picture-in-picture. To do this, you also need to create two video tracks, on the second (lower) place a full-screen video (background), and on the first (upper) - a video that should be shown on top of the full-screen in a reduced window:

Let's remember the description of the track header window (Track Header, see above) and click on the Track Motion button on the header of the first video track. In the window that opens, you can position the window in which the video should be displayed in the desired part of the video frame, and also set the dimensions of this window:

The frame in the center of the window takes up the entire video frame by default (note the values ​​in the Position group on the left). If you change its size and position, the video track window will move in the same way. Disable the Scale About Center button at the top of the window, leaving the Lock Aspect Ratio button pressed. Pull the lower right corner of the frame (when you move the mouse cursor to it, it is circled) up to the left so that it shrinks and ends up in the left top corner(note the changed values ​​in the Position group). For added effect, also enable the 2D Shadow option in the lower left corner.

In the Video Preview window, the desired result will be immediately visible - the picture of the first video track will be visible in a reduced form against the background of the picture of the second video track, with a shadow around the frame.

9. Animation of processing parameters

To do this, at the desired starting position in the project (for example, at the beginning of the video track), call the Track Motion window and click the Sync Cursor button at the bottom of the window, and now the current position of the video track window will be associated with the current cursor position in the project. In the picture above, we have placed the track window in the upper left part of the video frame. Now move the current position in the project by clicking on the slider at the bottom of the Track Motion window, to the right. Move the frame position to the bottom right of the window, and click the Create Keyframe button:

At the current position in the project, a key point will be added with the new position of the video track window. Close the Track Motion window, move the current position on the timeline to the beginning of the project (press Ctrl+Home) and press the Play button to see the result in the Video Preview window. Your computer's performance may not be sufficient for smooth playback; in this case, you can reduce the preview rendering quality by selecting Preview or Draft quality in the Preview Quality drop-down list above the image in the window. In any case, this is just a preview; you don’t have to worry about the quality of the video in the resulting file - the movement of the picture within the picture will look absolutely smooth.

Here we looked important property Sony Vegas - key points that define a smooth change, or animation, of video processing parameters. They can also be set for any parameters of video effects assigned to processing video tracks.

Let's look at a related example - the smooth "transformation" of color video into black and white.

Place the video clip on the track, move to the beginning of the project (Ctrl+Home), click the Event FX button on the right side of the clip (if the button is not visible, increase the height of the video track), or the Track FX button on the video track header on the left (Track Header, see above) . In the window that appears with a list of effects, select Sony HSL Adjust and click OK. The effect window will appear; at the bottom of it, click the Sync Cursor button. At the current position (beginning of the clip), leave the Saturation value unchanged (1.0). Move the current position slider at the bottom of the window all the way to the right and click the Create Keyframe button below (you can also press the Insert key on your keyboard). A cue point will be added at the end of the clip. At this point, set the Saturation parameter to zero:

Now you can close the effect window, press the Play button and see in the Preview window what the result is - the clip, initially in color, becomes black and white as it plays. The nature (speed) of parameter changes can be changed - to do this, right-click over a key point on the time ruler at the bottom of the effect window and select the desired type of parameter change profile (you can also select Hold - leave the parameter value unchanged until the next key point).

Similarly, you can set the animation of the parameters of almost any transitions (Transitions) - for example, in the “sheet folding” effect, as it wraps, you can smoothly change the thickness and angle of the curl, the color and intensity of lighting, etc. Everything is limited only by your plans and imagination. Experiment with different effects and transitions, and see for yourself how much room for creativity animating their parameters provides.

10. Working with sound

In this article it is impossible to consider in detail all the sound capabilities of the program, so we will focus only on some that are often used when editing home videos.

For example, you need to perform a simple action - replace part of the sound in a video. To do this, click on the desired video clip with audio and ungroup it (press U) so that the audio and video are edited separately. Let's say you need to replace the beginning of a sound with another one - from a sound file. First, drag the left edge of the original audio clip to the right to make room for the audio you're adding. Then, in the Explorer section, find the one you need sound file(for example, in mp3 format) and drag it onto the artboard, onto a separate soundtrack. Adjust the end of the added audio clip so that it has the desired duration. Then drag it onto the same audio track as the original footage audio. You can make it partially overlap the sound of the video sequence - in this case, the sound will smoothly transition from one clip to another:

If you right-click over the place where the sounds overlap (the so-called Crossfade), then in the Fade Type submenu you can select the shape of the volume envelopes of each of the two sound clips - a total of 25 options are available (the same as those available for Crossfade video clips). To ensure that the video clip and both sounds move together in the future, or are not accidentally ungrouped, they can be combined into a group - select them by clicking on them with the Ctrl key pressed and pressing G.

I often want to add music to a video sequence. Even a rather boring and monotonous video can look different if you add music to it. This is done very simply: find the desired audio file (for example, in mp3 format) in the Explorer section and drag it with the mouse onto the timeline just below the audio track of the video sequence. An audio track will be automatically created and the audio clip will be placed on it. If necessary, move the audio clip to the desired location, trim its beginning/end, add FadeIn/FadeOut - all this is done in the same way as it is done with video clips (see the section "Editing Basics"). Naturally, you can add any number of sound clips to your project this way.

But simply throwing music into a project is only half the battle. It is important to choose the right volume so that it does not sound intrusive and does not interfere with the viewing of your video.

Be sure to try to see the result of the editing yourself by listening to the sound, both in headphones and in speakers, at different volumes. If you want the music to only be an additional background and not replace the original sound, then it is important to select the volume of the music so that even at low speaker volumes the original sound sounds clearly (in particular, the words in the voices of people in the frame should be clearly and legibly perceived ). Most likely, the volume of each musical composition will have to be selected separately. To do this, move the mouse cursor to the top edge of the audio clip (the cursor will change to a hand with a finger and up and down arrows) and drag it down with the left mouse button pressed. In this case, the volume (Gain, gain) will decrease. Reducing the volume by 6 dB (decibels) means reducing the amplitude of the sound by half. Listen to at least a few seconds of the original audio along with the music and make sure that the music is not too loud, and if it is not, turn down the volume. Do this with each music video, listening to different parts of the edit.

It may turn out that in some areas you only need to temporarily “mute” the volume of the music so that at that moment only the sounds in the frame (for example, people’s voices) are heard, or, conversely, to add drama or dynamism to the plot, the music needs to be made louder by few seconds. To do this, you need to add a volume profile to the music audio track.

To do this, select the desired audio track (click on its title on the left) and call the menu command Insert/Audio Envelopes/Volume. will appear on the track horizontal line- this is the profile, or the envelope of volume changes. In the place where you need to reduce the sound volume, right-click above the profile and call the Add Point menu command, and add another one a little to the right. Then move to the place where the volume should return to its original value and add two profile points there too. As a result, a horizontal section is formed between the two middle points, which can be “pulled” up and down with the mouse to increase/decrease the sound volume in this section. The figure shows how to attenuate the sound by 12 dB (four times the amplitude) over a 10-second segment:

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If you need to completely muffle the sound, the corresponding section of the profile should be pulled down “all the way” so that the volume takes on the value -Inf (minus infinity, which in decibels corresponds to the amplitude multiplied by zero). If you need the volume to smoothly change from one value to another, add volume profile points in the right places and set the desired gain values ​​in them - either by dragging the points up/down with the mouse, or by calling the Set To... command in the menu with the right mouse button above the point. To set the initial sound volume at any point (disable volume changes), select the Set to 0.0 dB command.

Between points, the default volume profile is linear. In the menu above the profile section, you can select the shape of the profile change curve - Linear, Fast, Slow, Smooth, Sharp. The Hold type means that the profile value will be constant until the next point.

The volume of each audio track can be changed entirely - for this, use the Vol slider on the track header (if the slider is not visible, stretch the header in width):

It happens that music added to a project sounds too quiet when the volume is reduced, and too intrusive when increased, with loud bass and intrusive high frequencies, and it is difficult to find the “golden mean”. You can correct the situation using a sound equalizer. On the title of the audio track with music, click the Track FX... button, a window for assigning sound effects (processing) to the track will appear. Among them, by default, Track EQ is immediately present - click on the effect name at the top to activate its window.

An equalizer allows you to change the sound volume as desired in certain frequency ranges, or bands. By default, the equalizer does not change anything (all gain parameters are set to 0 dB). Let's start with the lower frequencies (bass). Click on tab 1 (Low Shelf filter type). Drag the Gain slider to the left to tone down the low frequencies. Drag the Frequency slider to the right to increase the filter's cutoff frequency. The higher the frequency, the more low frequencies will be suppressed. You can start playback in the main window and listen to what you get, while simultaneously selecting the frequency and degree of suppression on the fly.

Now you need to muffle the high frequencies (the upper sounds of percussion instruments, various noise effects, ringing, etc. are usually heard there). Click on tab 4 (High Shelf filter type). Similarly, select the degree of suppression (Gain) and cutoff frequency (Frequency). The lower the frequency, the more high frequencies will be suppressed.

As a result, we have the following picture: the low and high frequencies of the music are muffled, and the music now sounds less intrusive, without interfering with the perception of the main sound in the video.

Bass reduction can also be used to reduce the audibility of wind noise.

It happens that voices in the frame sound unintelligible. This can also be corrected using an equalizer - just increase the volume in the mid-frequency region (about 2-3 kHz for a male voice and 4-5 kHz for a female voice). To do this, open the equalizer window on the audio track with audio from the video sequence. Select tab 3 (Band filter type) and increase the gain (Gain), and also change the center frequency of the band (Frequency).

Play the project and try to adjust the gain and center frequency of the band on the fly so that your voice sounds more clearly. You can also increase the bandwidth (Bandwidth, in octaves). It is not recommended to increase the volume of mid frequencies too much (more than 6 dB), otherwise your voice may sound like it’s coming from a telephone.

If the equalizer in a project does not need to process the entire sound, but only its parts (for example, where there are people talking in the frame), then all the areas that need to be processed should be left on the audio track to which the equalizer is assigned, and the remaining audio clips should be transferred to a separate track on which no audio processing effects are assigned.

In addition to the equalizer, a Track Compressor effect is automatically assigned to audio tracks, designed to reduce the dynamic range of the audio track. It can be used to reduce the difference between loud and quiet sounds - for example, in scenes where, along with quietly speaking people, there are sometimes loud bangs, door slams, etc. in the frame.

You can also assign processing to an entire project using the Master FX... button in the Mixer window. When you call the add effects command, a window appears with a list of effects divided into categories. Select the desired effect, click the Add and OK buttons.

By analogy with the animation of video effects parameters (see the corresponding section above), you can set the animation of sound effects parameters. For example, you can define a profile for how the frequency of an equalizer filter changes over time. On the header of the audio track to which we have assigned an equalizer to increase the clarity of the voice, click the down arrow button on the right side of the Track FX button... In the drop-down menu, select the FX Automation command, in the window that appears, select the Track EQ effect. The list shows the names of processing parameters that can be made time-varying during playback. Check the Band 3 Frequency checkbox and click OK. A new profile will appear on the audio track, which can be controlled in the same way as the volume profile: add points, move them, set frequency values ​​​​at each point by entering a value, etc.

By controlling the processing parameters during playback, you can get a wide variety of sound effects - for example, using the Delay effect you can get an echo with a variable time of “reflection” of the sound.

11. Output the result to a file

In order for a custom audio codec (format) to be available, you must select a video format other than DV.

If the project uses interlaced video (and in most cases this is the case for video from a camcorder), then it is important that the correct field order is set in all source files (in the file properties in the Project Media window), and it is better to have the same order fields are set in the project properties and in the output video settings to minimize image transformations. If you want to save raw sections of video without recompression, this requirement becomes mandatory (in this case, the frame size/frequency must also match, and for MPEG2, the compression parameters, in particular, the bitrate).

For MPEG files (in MPEG2, HDV, AVCHD formats), the order of the fields is specified directly in the source files, so the program determines the order of the fields automatically (of course, if the specified order coincides with the actual one - exceptions are rare, but they happen when the file is incorrectly recoded; if the video is taken from a camera or capture board, then the order of the fields in the file is correct).

In the case of AVI files, it is generally impossible to automatically determine the field order, but, for example, for interlaced video from DV video cameras, the correct field order is Lower Field First. For video captured by most TV tuners, the field order is usually reversed - Upper Field First.

If you want to save video in MPEG2 format for DVD, then MainConcept MPEG plug-in for Vegas must be installed and registered. In the latest versions of Vegas, you need to install the Sony DVD Architect program to do this. In this case, you need to select MainConcept MPEG2 in the list of file types, and the desired template (for example, DVD PAL) in the list of templates. If necessary, you need to adjust the video and/or audio bitrate, depending on how much video you need to put on the DVD. For one-hour footage, single-pass encoding at 8 Mbps for video is usually sufficient.

If Sony DVD Architect is used as a DVD authoring program, then the marks placed in the project (inserted by pressing Ctrl+M at the current position) can be used to indicate the beginning of chapters in the created DVD. When saving a file in MPEG2 format, enable the "Save project markers in media file" option in the file save dialog, and DVD Architect will automatically use the project markers as the beginning marks of the DVD chapters (more precisely, the disc section that will result from this MPEG2 file) .

Be prepared for the fact that saving the resulting file can take quite a long time (up to several tens of hours depending on the duration of the project, video resolution, compression format and computer power). If a significant part of the project is saved without recompression, then it is better to keep the source files on one hard drive, and save the result on another, physically separate hard drive, in order to significantly speed up the data copying operation.

12. Encoding using a frameserver

After installing the frameserver, launch Vegas, open the desired project and call the File/Render As menu. From the list of file types, select DebugMode FrameServer.

When you click Save, specify a folder on the disk to save the intermediate file. After this, the frameserver settings window will appear:

The parameters can be left as default, as shown in the figure. By clicking the Next button, a small intermediate AVI file will be created in the specified folder (this will take some time). It can be opened in any encoder program (Canopus ProCoder, TMPGEnc, etc.), and as soon as encoding is started, the encoding data will be transferred to the encoder directly from Vegas in uncompressed form, that is, without loss. This method of data transfer is called frameserving, when frames are transferred upon request directly from the editing program to the encoder through memory, bypassing recording into a large intermediate file. Among other conveniences, this method allows for multi-pass encoding using encoders that support it.

Attention: do not try to open the same intermediate AVI file in several copies of encoding programs at once - the encoding result will be unpredictable. The described frameserver does not have correct support for this mode, and is designed for sequential coding of a project (although multi-pass coding is also allowed) with only one external process.

Once encoding is complete, close the external encoder program and click the Stop Serving button in the FrameServer Debugmode window.