Sony Vegas Pro 12 Tutorials
Introduction / Track List Operation
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I'm going to look in a little bit more detail at the Track List and it's associated timeline that we see down in the bottom left of our screen. First of all I want to add a video file to this because as you can see at the moment the track list when nothing is present in your project is of course completely empty. It goes without saying that the timeline is empty too. So we'll import a video file. Just come up to File and drop down to Import and across to the right to where it says media there. With this particular folder I'll just choose one of these video clips at random and click on Open. And as we've seen previously the quick way to get this video clip onto our track list and timeline is just double-click it and instantly it's added to the timeline. (Audio Playing) Right. Let's see what's available. In the track list area itself we can see that the video file is broken down into two separate components, number one the top track is the actual video clip and it's associated audio file is track number two. You'll notice that the video clip has a thumbnail view of the first frame at the beginning and the audio component you can just about see an audio waveform in the container for the audio file. Right. Let's have a quick look at some of the functions that are available for each distinct type of track. Here with the video track we can see that it is listed as track number one. And of course the audio track is listed as track number two. Well what happens if we've got multiple video files? Well just simply having numbers one, two three, four, five et cetera, et cetera doesn't really help accelerate our workflow. So what we could do with is the ability to be able to name these individual tracks. And of course that's what we can do in that little field there just to the right of the number. If you rollover you'll see the tooltip track name. By clicking in there I can add whatever descriptive name I want to use. And I'll do the same for track two, the audio component and I'm going to click in there and I'm going to call this one audio and I'll click away. Incidentally even though I resized the track list and timeline viewing footprint if I want to enlarge or indeed minimize the individual video or audio tracks in the track list, then these two little what seem to be insignificant buttons just to the left of the track number. Well, these will allow you to either enlarge or minimize the track height. I'll show you what I mean. By clicking on the bottom of the two there, as you can see this enlarges to cover that area. Consequently giving me a much larger thumbnail view, clicking on it once more collapses it down to how we started. I can do the same thing of course with the audio component, clicking on the bottom of the two little buttons there enlarges the audio waveform display view, thus allowing me of course to focus in on any problems with the audio. Clicking it again collapses it to how we started. Now of course with there being two buttons you might very well be asking well why are there two buttons? When the bottom of the two buttons seems to enlarge and collapse the view? Well notice what happens when I actually click the top one, it collapses the track components view to just buttons along one separate strip. And of course this would mean subsequently if you've got loads of tracks here, then being able to stack them up in view here would be quite useful. I can do the same thing of course with the audio, let me just bring it back and of course I'll bring the video view back too, to how we started. Now I'm going to leave the function of all these different buttons that we see on the video track and on the audio track for a later tutorial. But be aware that if you want a quick view of what all these different buttons do just roll your mouse over them and you'll get a tooltip and that instantly tells you what that particular button allows you to do. The audio track features different buttons of course and rolling over each of those will provide you with a tooltip also. Right. That's a quick run through of what the track list looks like but let's just have a quick look at the timeline. Because we've added this video clip to the track list, at the present time, it's viewed at this resolution. But if I want to enlarge the timeline then I can do. Come over to the right-hand side at the bottom right and you can use these buttons to either zoom in or zoom out. I'll zoom in a few times and of course a drag slider is at the bottom if you want to navigate across. So that is a run through of the track list and it's associated timeline.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Sony Vegas Pro 12 |
| Author: | Mark Struthers |
| SKU: | 34397 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-085-5 |
| Release Date: | 2012-12-21 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 95 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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