Video Explainer (03_VEGFR_23)

Click the play icon to watch this video. Subtitles are available – Click the settings cog at the bottom right for options. You can also watch this video full-screen by clicking the full-screen icon at the bottom right.

The main steps in this video:

1: Open the previous project

2: Trim video clips

• Select the left or right-most end of a clip.
• Hold down your left mouse button and drag to trim
• If you’ll be doing a lot of editing, search online for ‘3 Point Editing’ as it’s a more efficient technique than the workflow used in this beginner course.

3: Add cross-fades

Pick up and drag the end of one clip over the start of another and a cross-fade is automatically created. Aim for a duration of one second to fit the pacing of the video – By default Vegas will ‘snap’ to one-second increments and show a pink vertical line to indicate a whole-second based crossfade.

4: Add fade-in and fade-out

• Hover over the top left corner of the first clip in the sequence and slowly drag to the right to increase the duration of the fade-in.

• Hover over the top right corner of the final clip in the sequence and drag to the left to increase the duration of the fade-out.

5: Render the updated sequence

Go to the file menu and click on ‘render as’. Refer to explainer number two in this series for help with render settings.