Replying to M&A, Help me with Sony Vegas please

so I have a canon t3i, a bunch of glass, a tripod and sony vegas pro 10.  you can probably guess what i would like to do with all of this.  the only problem is i need a little guidance on how to use vegas.
if anyone could either explain or link me to explanations/tutorials that would be much appreciated.  I was looking on youtube for some help but all of the color correction videos were of kids color correcting clips from call of duty which is of no help to me... also, what settings should i use to export? for shits and giggles i played around with a 30 second clip that i shot and the end result came about to be a 6gb file... so i have something wrong...
in summary, any help would be greatly appreciated!