User Guide

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INTRODUCTION CHP. 1
Overview
Vegas 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 Vegas operations, menu items, and shortcut keys are
consistent with other popular Windows software applications.
The following sections provide a graphical tour of the Vegas workspace.
Main window
This is the window that appears when you open Vegas. 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.
Toolbar
The toolbar allows you to quickly access the most commonly used functions and features in Vegas. From the
Options menu, choose Customize Toolbar to specify which buttons are displayed.
Create new project Enable automatic crossfades
Open existing project Enable automatic ripple editing
Save project Lock envelopes to events
Open project properties Ignore event grouping
Cut selected events or time range Normal edit tool
Copy selected events or time range Envelope edit tool
Paste items from clipboard into
project
Selection edit tool
Undo Zoom edit tool
Redo What’s This? help
Enable snapping to grid lines
Menu bar
Track view
Transport bar
Status bar
(timeline)
Scrub control
Window
docking
area
Track list
Time display
Toolbar
Ruler
Marker bar