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Official Sony Vegas Help Thread

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mBall
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After seeing countless threads about what settings to use in vegas, I thought I would share my knowledge from using Vegas after along time. So rather than re-explaining it, people can look here or we can send them here. I use Pro 10 but it should be the same for the other versions too.

1. The first thing to do is to set your Project Settings to whatever best matches your camera. The easiest way to do this is to go to File-Properties and look to the top right corner of the box. There should be a little icon in the top right corner and when you hover over it it says, "Match Media Settings". When you click on this you can select one of your video files from your camera and it will automatically set all of your project properties to match the files from your camera. Also, don't forget to click "Start all new projects with these settings" so you don't have to do this every time.

2. After all of your editing, choose the "selection edit tool" that looks like a box in the top and highlight ALL of your video with NONE of your audio. Right click on one of the video clips and go to Switches-Disable Resample. Doing this will stop vegas from frame blending and allow your video to stay in the best quality!

3. When rendering you must use Sony AVC. I have tried all the other codecs and only the SONY AVC mp4 keeps the correct levels/color. Choose "custom" and then choose your desired bit rate, fps, and set your video render quality to BEST under "Project".

So those are the three main things! When I have some more time I will post some more tips!

Best of luck and post any questions!
Dec 29 2011 3:50AM
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*Pow2ThePeople
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threads because this is really helpful.
how would one go about doing color correction?
Dec 29 2011 12:06PM
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mBall
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First, select a video and go to Video FX tab. Add the "Levels" and "Color Correction" . (you can add them by dragging them. Also, just add the "reset to none") so then you will then see the levels and 3 way color wheels. When your on either of those, Before you change any settings, click on the green video effects button and save the preset as "LEVELS AND COLOR" so then can click the video fx button on any video and add the levels and color in one go!
Also, go to View-Videoscopes, and then choose the "waveform" this will allow you to see the levels of where ever you are in the timeline!

Hopefully that helps! Let me know if you have any questions!
Dec 29 2011 12:49PM
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Stose
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Is vegas movie studio HD platinum 11 production suite worth the extra 30 dollars compared to vegas movie studio HD platinum?
Dec 29 2011 2:09PM
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GORILLA.
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threads
Dec 29 2011 5:06PM
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NPF
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just wondering if anyone knows how or if they can get sony vegas for mac?
Dec 29 2011 9:20PM
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mBall
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Something to keep in mind, only Vegas Pro offers an unlimited amount of tracks and video scopes. I believe there are ways to get it for free if you search around too...
Dec 29 2011 9:36PM
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TaranItUp
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Thank you Matt, I did not know the Vegas Pro 10 had levels. I will definitely put that to use in my next edit. Also I really enjoyed your reel, good work!
Dec 29 2011 11:41PM
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j.benziger
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dope thanks
May 14 2012 1:11AM
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Merlin.
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Thank you so much!
May 14 2012 3:58PM
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Zump.
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Threads...I got pretty good at Vegas Pro 9 and decided to switch to Premiere/AE CS5...Idk if it was the best move. Downloading it now and figuring out what I want to keep.
May 14 2012 9:20PM
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ejm
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everytime i try to render a video i get this message "vegas movie studio hd platinum has stopped working" and then the program closes. Anyone know how to fix this? never use to do it.

Jul 5 2012 1:16PM
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mBall
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Go under the template that you render it and hit the "Custom button" Make sure that a frame size is entered and that your bit rate isn't over 20,000,000 kbps.
Jul 9 2012 2:50PM
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JAHrig
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I would just torrent premier or fcp haha
Jul 10 2012 12:27AM
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ejm
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i figured half of it out, i was/am trying to put a vid on vimeo so i was using the settings they recommend, if i encode in the automatic setting it crashes, if i choose cpu only it works normal. Now i uploaded a quick like 10sec test clip to vimeo and the quality was good, but when i uploaded the full vid it looked like garbage. All the same settings were used. Any ideas on why it's doing that?
Jul 11 2012 1:16AM
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mBall
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Hmmm... I would check everything again. Make sure you're not using variable bit rate.

Make sure your project settings are correct and most importantly, make sure all your clips have been disabled for the resample.
Jul 11 2012 1:26AM
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ejm
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alright ill give that a try
Jul 11 2012 9:53AM
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raymondcabral
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Bumping a year old thread.... we need this thing alive!!!

Jun 29 2013 6:26PM
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homestar
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I probably can help. I feel like I've ran into every issue possible in Sony Vegas.
Jun 29 2013 6:34PM
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