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Sony Vegas Pro 11 Beginner's Guide

By : Duncan Wood
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Sony Vegas Pro 11 Beginner's Guide

By: Duncan Wood

Overview of this book

<p>Sony Vegas Pro is a widely used video editing tool that provides an efficient and intuitive environment for creating professional quality videos. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced video editor, Vegas Pro meets all your needs<br /><br />Sony Vegas Pro 11 Beginner's Guide is packed with tips and advice on how to go about creating professional quality videos from scratch. With this book in hand, even a novice can start making a video or a short film quickly and easily.<br /><br />Sony Vegas Pro 11 Beginner&rsquo;s Guide takes you through the process of creating a video project from scratch. The book is packed with many screenshots to help illustrate time-saving editing techniques and how to spice up your video with beautiful effects and titles. You will also dive into audio editing, color correction, event panning and cropping along with various other techniques which will enable you to develop a solid foundation in video editing.<br /><br />By the end of this book you will be able to create and edit videos with ease.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Sony Vegas Pro 11 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about how to address the color of our footage in both a corrective and creative manner.

Specifically, we covered White Balance and Levels, their importance to the video's final output, and how to ensure they are sitting at acceptable levels. We examined the Video Scopes available to you in Vegas Pro 11 and how to read them in conjunction with our adjustments. The Color Correction tool with both its simplicity of use, but also its wide range of parameters was an important section. We also looked at the Color Corrector Secondary tool and how this powerful plugin can be used for corrective and creative adjustments with its ability to select specific color ranges to adjust within our footage.

Now that we have brought our project closer to being the pro-looking music video clip that it should be, we can move forward to learn a few more tricks and creative choices we can make for the video before we tackle the powerful Audio tools available to us in Vegas...