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newest VEGAS Pro 17 from MAGIC company!
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VEGAS Pro is a professional video-editing software with a very easy and
intuitive interface offering amazing effects, transitions, text templates
and visual adjustments to improve your media appearance. To get a
complete overview on it, let's start from a new project by going to New
Empty Project in the top left corner.
The VEGAS project is open on the project timeline at the bottom with
several windows around, collecting features and templates to create and
edit. In case any of these panels is missing, you can go to View and then
to Window to reopen these.
To start editing you have to import all the media files to work with.
You can add images, audio files and videos up to 8K resolution by
dragging and dropping these from any folder directly into the Timeline.
With VEGAS Pro 17 you can also use Start Screen Capture, inside Project
Media, to record screens and audio from multiple sources simultaneously.
The main project Timeline is the place where you create your own video
by editing the source files imported. These are shown as colored blocks
called Events or clips, contained inside two kinds of rows called Tracks:
Video Tracks for images and video frames with thumbnails and Audio Tracks
for music and speech, showing audio waveforms on each stereo channel. To
add or remove Tracks, just right-click on any empty space.
The Preview in the top right corner shows the Timeline content where its
main black marker is placed in time. You can use the player to playback
frames and audio in real time, adjusting preview options such as
resolution and frame rate inside Project Video Properties... and the
video quality with Preview Quality. Use the second button to playback
in full screen mode, exiting with the Escape key. With the new advanced
GPU video processing, the preview made on AVC and HEV videos is faster
and smoother in respect to the previous versions of VEGAS.
To get a quicker preview on the project you can also click and hold on
above the Timeline to create a Loop Region. This also moves the main
marker through time giving you the possibility to check the frames you
need without any sound on the background.
This Loop Region is also used to playback in loop its blue part when the
Loop Playback button is enabled.
The Tracks on the Timeline are also used to set and organize how to
playback content through their options on the extreme left. Use the Mute
button to disable an entire Track or the Solo button to leave just the
current one ON.
On Video Tracks you can use the Level bar to adjust the transparency
level of its whole visual content; on Audio Tracks you get the Volume
bar to set the volume level of the whole Track and the Panning bar to
balance its stereo channels. Make sure to check the volume levels with
the deciBel meter, in order to avoid any red saturated volume level.
Now let's see how to edit the Timeline content. You can enable the
Normal Edit Tool to select clips singularly or the Selection Edit Tool to
select multiple clips together by clicking and dragging on these. Once
any clip is selected, you can start editing it on the Timeline.
You can click and drag clips to move these in time or in different Tracks.
Consider that the visual clips placed on the highest Video Tracks are
shown in front of all the clips inside lower Video Tracks in case these
overlap in time.
You can cut, copy, paste or delete any clip by right-clicking on it. In
case any Loop Region is present, only its blue part gets affected. To
undo any action made, just use CTRL+Z.
You can adjust the clips duration by clicking and dragging from their
edges, in order to put their content in loop or cut part of it.
Whereas if you drag edges while holding down the CTRL key, you adjust
the clip duration by changing its speed rate. The clip will be played
faster in case you make it shorter and slower if you extend it in time.
This also affects the audio part, saving the original pitch.
If you zoom in enough on any clip block you can use its envelope curve
and buttons to apply advanced editing on it. Click and pull down the
central blue anchor to adjust the opacity level on visual clips or
the volume level on audio clips.
content. Inside the Video Event FX panel the main project camera is
represented as a dashed rectangle that you can move, size and rotate
while checking the preview. In particular you can size the rectangle to
zoom in or out the clip content and also crop it in case Lock Aspect
Ratio is disabled.
Click on Event FX... on videos or audio clips to browse from the list of
effects you want to apply. Just select the effects interested and use Add
to import these on the effect chain above, that applies the effects in
order from left to right. Once you click on OK, the Video Event
FX panel opens, showing the properties of the effect selected from the
top.
You can also add effects quickly by dragging these directly from the
Video FX window.
VEGAS Pro 17 now includes new effects: the new Slow Motion effect
analyzes the clip motion and processes it to apply professional slow
motion with Optical Flow or Morph.
Whereas the new Color Grading applies advanced color correction also
HDR videos. Once applied, select the clip and open the Color Grading
interface from its button at the bottom and adjust all the RGB (Red Green
Blue) color channels, including the brightness level or Y channel. Use
Lift to correct lowlights, Gamma for the midlights, Gain for the
highlights and Offset to adjust colors on all the three zones while
checking the color scopes above for details.
This new interface also includes other professional panels and tools
such as the Color Curves and HSL to change colors with Hue or their
intensity with Saturation. Use Exit to come back to the main project
Timeline.
You can also apply great transitions to start and finish any clip content
in a cool way. Just click and drag from the top clip corners to change
in time the opacity level on visual clips and the volume level on audio
clips. You can also use the Transitions window to drag and drop visual
transitions with special effects on clips that you can check and edit by
going to Transition Properties....
With VEGAS you can also generate static and animated Titles and Credit
Rolls by importing any template from the Media Generators panel. These
create text clips inside Video Tracks containing pieces of text you can
edit in content, font, style, color and animation by going to Generated
Media.... Make sure to place the text clip on the top Video Track or it
may get covered by other visual clips higher in position.
Now in VEGAS Pro 17 you can also make nested timelines to manage complex
projects with a lot of content.
First of all, save the main project by using CTRL+S, defining name and
where to save it. Then, select all the clips that need to be grouped,
right-click and go to Create Nested Timeline. These will be part of a
"child" project that can be edited on its own, becoming a simple clip
inside the main or "parent" original project.
Once your project is finished, you can extract the final video by going
to File and then to Render As.... First select the video format to use on
the left, from .mp4 for YouTube to .mp3 audio; then pick any suitable
template on the right, using Customize Template... at the bottom to edit
and create one on your own. Finally, set where to save the video next to
Folder, define its Name and use the Render button to start. By default,
the whole project open on the Timeline will be rendered, until the end
of the last clip in time. To render just a selected part, just create a
Loop Region on it and assure that Render loop region only is ON inside
Rendering Options.
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