Vegas to create the MTV Road (2)

In the previous issue, we have made a brief introduction to the production process of MTV and the method of collecting the material, today we will enter the instance making phase. First of all, I would like to introduce how to import a variety of materials into the Sonic Vegas 5.0 and add to the timeline, and then introduce how to clip the material, finishing, these work is very important, not only the production of successful works of the foundation, but also the embodiment of personal choreographer talent. It can be imagined that the footage will be condensed into 5 minutes, but also the content of the lyrics and emotional perfect expression, this is how creative work!

1. Start Sonic Vegas 5.0, click the New button to create a new item. Perform the file → Properties command to open the Scenario Properties dialog box, and then make some settings for the current project, including parameters such as frame rate, screen size, rendering quality, and so on.

2. After some basic settings are complete, we'll join the song. Go to the Media Library window, click the "Input Media" button on its toolbar to open the Import Medium dialog box, select the song you want to join, and click the Open button to import it.

3. In order to better manage the material, we click the right mouse button on "The Media cabinet", select the Create New Media cabinet command from the pop-up menu to set up a new folder and name the one you want, as shown in Figure 1, name the new folder audio footage, and then drag the imported song to the audio footage for management. Perhaps this feature is not necessary when the material is low, but it can be helpful when there is more material.

Figure 1 Scenario Properties dialog box

4. Drag the song to the timeline, the system will automatically create an audio track, and then double-click the track number to the right of the text box, in which to enter the track name, where you can enter the name of the song as a marker.

5. Create a "video footage" media cabinet, import the video footage we have prepared, and add the video footage to the timeline by referring to step 4, as shown in Figure 2. If there is a sound in the video footage we collect, we will see its audio track below the video track, because there is no need for other audio here, so select the audio track and press the "Del" button to remove it.

Figure 2 Adding Video footage dialog box

6. Because the video footage we use here is nearly one hours of footage, (a DV tape can be recorded 60 minutes) and an MTV is about 5 minutes, so we need to the video material for the first cut, according to the main words and their understanding of the meaning of music, the need to leave the lens, the need to delete the lens. First drag the playback pointer to the location where you want to trim, perform "edit → split" command to split the video, if this video does not need to press the "Del" button to delete directly, if you want to stay can drag down the video, at this time the system will automatically create a video track, Refer to this method to put a useful video fragment here for standby, as shown in Figure 3.

Fig. 3 The initial cut of video material

7. After the initial cut of the video material, the need to further refine the material to be left behind, in the fine cut before the time ruler needs to be enlarged in order to accurately control the division position. There are three ways to enlarge the ruler, the first of which is to adjust the length of the slider at the bottom of the Timeline window, drag either end of the slider to shorten the ruler magnification, the opposite ruler will shrink, and the second method is to click the "+" sign to the right of the slider to enlarge the ruler, and the third Way is to click the magnifying glass button at the far right of the slider bar. Then click and drag in the Timeline window to zoom in quickly.

Note: In the video segmentation must confirm that the video is active, otherwise it will split the video at the same time the audio segmentation. Of course, this will not cause audio damage, if the audio segmentation can be really reset the Media Library audio to the audio track can be.

8. Below we to the rest of the video material collation, determine their order, this part of the operation is very simple, directly drag each section of the video to move. When you adjust the video sequence, you will see that the blue and white fade indicator automatically appears when the two clips overlap, as shown in Figure 4, which shows that the fade effect is automatically generated, and pressing the ENTER key will show you the transition effect in the preview window.

Figure 4 Adjusting the playback order of the video

9. Through the above introduction, it is easy to combine material in Sonic Vegas. We can overlap the end of each video with the head of the back video, Fast fade transition, and then press ENTER to the overall preview of MTV. The transition effect of the time length control is also very simple, with the mouse left and right to control the length of overlapping areas can be.

Note: The transition curve also occurs when two audio clips overlap, so you can quickly create a fade effect between audio fragments.

10. To quickly change the transition effect, you can click the right mouse button in the transition area, in the pop-up menu select the "Gradient type" option, you can see as shown in Figure 5 of the various types of transition curves, by selecting different curve types can produce different transition effects.

Fig. 5 Types of transition curves