Fade sound in Vegas + other questions

[ermetekos]

Hey all,
i was a Premiere fan, but i am beginning to delve into the Vegas world.
There are some things of Premiere that i love though, and am trying to find them in Vegas.
How do you fade out sound?
Like is there a razor? Control - C is in Premiere.
How do you set keyframes?

Any good Vegas tutorials to point out there?

repex

[jtoolman2000]

You hold the cursor over the edge of the audio track until you see a little arc curser. You then drag toward the left onto the track and it will create a fade out curve for you. The more you drag the longer the fade out will be.

[guns1inger]

Look for the shortcut to split (crtl-s ?). That is the equivalent of premiere's razor.

If you want more control over volume (fading up and down throughout a track), you can apply a volume envelope to the entire track, then add points and shift them up and down as needed.

As for tutorials

www.vasst.com

and this post from down the page a bit

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=268220

[mwkurt]

The split command is just the S key.
To set keyframes I believe what you do is to apply an effect to a track move the curser to the point that want to adjust the effect and make the adjustment. Vegas will add a keyframe automatically at that point. Why are you making the switch away from Premiere? I am thinking just the opposite from you. Going from Vegas to Premiere.
Mark

[guns1inger]

I moved from Premiere to Vegas. The key reasons for me were

1. Audio. Until PP1.5, Vegas was streets ahead for multi-channel work. Now I'm just too comfortable to change.

2. Stability. Premiere has never been a stable product on any platform I have run it on. Even a relatively small amount of stress would see it collapse. Vegas has been solid through 4 versions.

3. Speed. Vegas has always been faster and more nimble that Premiere, although version 6 has become a bit of a resource hog with the new media tracking stuff.

Premiere has only two advantages from my perspective. One is hardware support from rendering cards, the other is the abundance of plugins. However apart from colour correction and occassional grading, I do very little with plugins in the editor anyway.

Why are you considering going the other way ?

[thefiddler]

I too am a previous Premiere user who is now fully converted to Vegas.

I completely agree with all of what guns1inger said.

I do have one thing to add to his list of advantages of Vegas over Premiere:

Vegas is much easier to use (for the most part). It tends to be, in my opinion, much more intuitive. Now, granted I haven't used Premiere Pro 1.5, but I have used 1 and 6.5, and find them to take much more time to discover how to do things that you would think you would be able to do in right in the timeline. Vegas just does all the common things you do every day, so much more quickly and easily. The time it takes editing something is greatly improved.

Personally I had used Premiere 6.5 quite a bit, and had become somewhat frusterated with it (for crashing and lack of intuitive controls). I'd never really used anything else that was on the same level of editing power. I got really excited for Pro 1 and downloaded the trial when it came out. It looked a lot better but ran slower and didn't fix most of the things I hated about 6.5. So I looked around and downloaded a trial of Vegas 4. I immediately enjoyed using it, and found that most of the learning curve was due to the fact that I was used to more complicated and non-intuitive ways of doing things in Premiere. I soon got a chance to try Vegas 5 and was immediately hooked. I bought it and have never looked back. I've not upgraded to 6 yet, but have used it some and am impressed.