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Overview

Vegas software is designed to be an easy-to-use program with many tools that provide power and flexibility when creating and working with multimedia files. Many operations, menu items, and shortcut keys are consistent with other popular Microsoft Windows software applications.

The following sections provide a graphical tour of the Vegas workspace.

Main window

This is the window that appears when the software is opened. The work area is subdivided into three primary areas: the track list, the track view (or timeline), and the window docking area.You can resize the track list, track view, and window docking area by dragging the dividers between them.

Menu bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toolbar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marker bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time display

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Track list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Track view

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(timeline)

Scrub control

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Window docking area

Status bar

Transport bar

Toolbar

The toolbar allows you to quickly access the most commonly used functions and features. From the Options menu, choose Customize Toolbar to specify which buttons are displayed.

Create new project

Open existing project

Save project

Open project properties

Cut selected events or time range

Copy selected events or time range

Paste items from clipboard into project

Undo

Redo

Enable snapping to grid lines

Enable automatic crossfades

Enable automatic ripple editing

Lock envelopes to events

Ignore event grouping

Normal edit tool

Envelope edit tool

Selection edit tool

Zoom edit tool

What’s This? help

CHP. 1

INTRODUCTION