User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Using the Media Manager
- Creating a new media library
- Opening a media library
- Adding media files to a library
- Removing media files from a library
- Tagging media files
- Backing up your media libraries
- Opening a reference library
- Searching for media files
- Previewing media
- Media relationships
- Adding media to your project
- Resolving offline media files
- Customizing the Media Manager window
- Setting Media Manager options
- Using the Media Manager with multiple computers
- Basic Editing Techniques
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Snapping events
- Pitch shifting audio events
- Time compressing/stretching events
- Working with takes
- Using the Trimmer window
- Opening a file in the Trimmer
- Choosing Trimmer preview options
- Choosing multichannel/multistream options
- Moving frame by frame in the Trimmer window
- Making selections in the Trimmer
- Adding selections to the timeline
- Using the Trimmer History list
- Adding and saving regions and markers to a media file
- Opening a file in an external audio editor from the Trimmer
- Creating a subclip
- Selecting a subclip in its parent media
- Opening files in the Trimmer by default
- Removing red eye from still images
- Using the Edit Details window
- Working with Multicamera Video
- Stereoscopic 3D Editing
- Working with XDCAM Video
- Working with Tracks
- Managing tracks
- Organizing tracks
- Using the track list
- Using the volume fader (audio only)
- Using the pan slider (audio only)
- Using the multipurpose slider (audio only)
- Assigning audio tracks to assignable effects chains
- Assigning audio tracks to busses
- Adjusting bus send levels
- Adjusting the composite level (video only)
- Selecting the compositing mode
- Bypassing motion blur envelopes (video only)
- Using track motion (video only)
- Phase inverting a track (audio only)
- Muting a track
- Soloing a track
- Setting default track properties
- Track automation envelopes
- Using audio bus tracks
- Using video bus tracks
- Rendering to a new track
- Using Automation
- Showing or hiding automation controls
- Track automation
- Mute automation (audio and video)
- Volume or pan automation (audio only)
- Assignable effects automation (audio only)
- Bus automation (audio only)
- Adding or removing track effect automation
- Composite level automation (video only)
- Fade-to-color automation (video only)
- Adding a motion blur envelope
- Adding a video supersampling envelope
- Working with track envelopes
- Automating 5.1 surround projects
- Automation recording modes
- Working with Events
- Using the Mixer
- Using the Mixing Console
- Understanding the Mixing Console window
- Adding track, assignable FX, and bus channels
- Using audio track channel strips
- Renaming audio tracks
- Adding or editing track (insert) effects
- Adjusting bus or assignable effects send levels
- Change a track’s input or output device
- Monitoring track levels with VU/PPM meters
- Monitoring track levels with peak meters
- Changing a track’s automation mode
- Muting or soloing a track
- Inverting a track’s phase
- Arming a track for recording or toggle input monitoring
- Adjusting track panning or volume
- Using bus channel strips
- Using input bus channel strips
- Using FX send (assignable effects) channel strips
- Renaming an assignable effect chain
- Adding or editing effects
- Adjusting assignable effects input levels
- Changing an effects chain’s output device
- Monitoring assignable effects levels with VU/PPM meters
- Monitoring output levels with peak meters
- Muting or soloing an assignable effects chain
- Adjusting assignable effects panning or volume
- Using input busses with hardware-based effects
- Monitoring an external source without mixing it with your project
- Creating a Cue (Headphone) Mix with the Mixing Console
- Adding Audio Effects
- Recording Audio
- Working with 5.1 Surround
- Using Advanced Video Features
- Closed Captioning
- Adding closed captioning to video files
- Importing or rendering closed captions in an MXF file
- Importing or rendering Line 21 closed captions
- Importing or printing captions when using HD SDI
- Importing closed captions from a closed captioning file
- Synchronizing captions with video
- Adding or editing closed caption markers on the timeline
- Captioning markup reference and examples
- Displaying closed captions in the Video Preview or Trimmer window
- Exporting closed captions
- Editing multiple captions with the Edit Details window
- Adding captions to Windows Media Video (WMV) files
- Adding closed captioning to video files
- Using Video Effects, Compositing, and Masks
- Adding Video Transitions and Motion
- Understanding basic transitions
- Using transition effects
- Adding a transition
- Adding a transition to the end of an event
- Adding a transition to all selected events
- Adding a transition progress envelope
- Understanding track layers
- Converting a cut to a transition
- Converting a crossfade or transition to a cut
- Previewing a transition
- Modifying a transition
- Saving custom settings as a preset
- Using keyframe animation
- Sample uses for keyframe animation
- Adding track motion
- Previewing and Analyzing Video
- Saving, Rendering, and Printing Projects
- Saving a project
- Rendering a project
- Rendering still-image sequences
- Rendering multichannel audio files
- Rendering surround projects
- Rendering MPEG format
- Rendering projects for use in DVD Architect Pro
- Rendering projects for Blu-ray Disc
- Customizing the rendering process
- Rendering in real time
- Exporting a movie to a PSP™
- Printing video to tape
- Burning Discs
- Understanding track-at-once and disc-at-once CD burning
- Understanding tracks and indices
- Setting up to burn audio CDs
- Importing CD Architect files
- Creating audio CD layout projects
- Working with tracks and indices
- Burning audio CDs
- Burning video CDs
- Creating a multimedia CD
- Creating a Blu-ray Disc
- Creating a DVD from the timeline
- Using Scripting
- Customizing Vegas Pro Software
- Using Hardware Controllers
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Index
Monitoring input bus levels with peak meters
When the Meters control region is visible, each input bus displays meters you can use to monitor output levels.
To show or hide the Meters control region, click the Meters button in the View pane.
Note:
If the Meters control region is not visible, peak meters are displayed in the Faders control region.
Right-click the meter and choose a setting from the shortcut menu (or hover over the meter and roll your mouse wheel) to change
the resolution and display options.
Tip:
Right-click the peak meters and choose Show Peak Meter to show or hide meters for individual channels.
Muting or soloing an input bus
When the Faders control region is visible, each input bus displays Mute () and
Solo ( ) buttons.
To show or hide the Faders control region, click the Faders button in the View pane.
Muting an input bus
When the Automation Settings button (
) is not selected, you can click the Mute button ( ) to prevent an input bus from being
played in the mix. Click the Mute button on additional input busses to add them to the mute group. To unmute an input bus, click
the Mute button again.
When the Automation Settings button ( ) is selected, the Mute button is displayed with an automation icon ( ), and you can
use the button to edit mute automation on the bus track.
Soloing an input bus
Click the Solo button (
) to mute all unselected input busses. Click the Solo button on additional input busses to add them to the
solo group. To remove an input bus from the solo group, click its Solo button again.
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