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You can customize Vegas® software to suit your project needs and working preferences. Many of the settings depend on your equipment or studio setup. Vegas software can be set to work with the components that you use in your studio.

In this chapter, you will find information about functions that allow you to customize the appearance of Vegas software, set a project’s properties, and set the application’s preferences.

Displaying frame numbers

You can display frame numbers on video events. Once you have enabled frame numbering, a small box appears at the bottom of the event thumbnail with the frame offset, time or timecode. The small black arrow marks the exact position of that frame in time.

When the workspace is zoomed in far enough, each thumbnail represents a single numbered frame in the source video file. At intermediate zoom levels, marks between the frame numbers show the location of intermediate frames. These frame marks are not visible at lower magnifications.

1.From the Options menu, choose Preferences.

2.Click the Video tab.

3.Choose an option from the Show source frame numbers on event thumbnails as drop-down list.

4.Click OK.

Changing the ruler format

You can customize the ruler to display a number of different standard formats. The format that you select affects how the ruler and time display window display time units. For more information, see Timecode in Vegas software on page 374.

To change the ruler’s format, right-click the ruler and choose the desired time format from the shortcut menu or, from the Options menu, choose Ruler Format and choose the desired time unit. You can also change ruler settings on the Project Properties dialog’s Ruler tab. For more information, see Ruler tab on page 334.

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