User Guide

GETTING STARTED CHP. 2

Previewing a media file

You may preview files before placing them in your project. The Explorer window has a mini-transport bar

with

Play, Stop, and Auto Preview buttons ( ). When you preview a file, its stream is sent to the Mixer

window’s preview bus (for audio files) or to the Video Preview window (for video files).

Tip:

You can use the same mini-transport bar buttons in the

Media Pool window to preview files in the Media Pool.

Select a file in the Explorer window.

Click the Play button ( ) to listen to the file.

Click the Stop button ( ) or select a different file to stop previewing the file.

Tip:

To automatically preview selected files, click the Auto

Preview button ( ) on the Explorer window’s transport bar.

Using the Media Pool

Media files, both video and audio, tend to be the largest

files on your hard drive. It is therefore not always easy

to move them around and impractical to store multiple

copies of these files. You can add media files to the

Media Pool in Vegas to organize them before any

editing begins. Once you begin working on a project, all

files you add to the timeline are automatically included

in the Media Pool. From the

View menu, choose Media

Pool

to open this window if it is not already visible.

Using Media Pool views

You can control the information that is displayed in the

Media Pool by clicking the

Views button ( ) and

selecting a view.

The

Detailed view displays all the properties for each file. The information is presented in a table format. You

can customize the information displayed:

• Reorder columns (fields) by dragging the column label to a new position.

• Hide a column by dragging the column label off of the Media Pool window. To display a hidden column,

right-click the Media Pool, choose

View from the shortcut menu, and choose the column name from the

submenu.

• Sort the files in the Media Pool according to a category by clicking the column label for that category.

• Use the

Comments field to add your own annotations to a file’s entry in the Media Pool. Double-click the

field to enter text. This information is saved with the project and is not saved with the media file itself.