Basic Sony Vegas Studio Question

[HoosierGuy]

I'm new to Sony Vegas Studio. It's my fist video editing software that I've bought and used. I'm just four days into and learning.

I'm curious about those that use this program. When you make a video that may take you many hours or days to complete do you have your whole video on one
video track or do you use multiple video tracks?

Also, do you use the trimmer window much?

I was playing around with some of the effects that was including i the suite - wow, what fun! I think I'm going to have to pick one each night and just play with it for an hour. There are so many of them.

I'm really impressed so far with this program. And it does not crash my computer like Wax did. Funny thing, I found some of the effects used in Wax automatically loaded in my Sony Vegas Suite. That's cool too.

[Pinstripes23]

I'm curious about those that use this program. When you make a video that may take you many hours or days to complete do you have your whole video on one
video track or do you use multiple video tracks?

Also, do you use the trimmer window much?

Well I have Sony Vegas Pro so I don't know if it shares the exact functions as Studio. But I DO NOT use the trimmer window at all. A shortcut I usually use is just split (S) if I want to create an event.

I do use several tracks as need be when working on a video as it is easier for me. I know that Studio is limited by the number of tracks so you may have to be more creative but I doubt it should be a limiting factor when editing.

[mL999]

Sony Vegas Using the trimmer ... I think the recommended proceedure for making a movie is to:: - Plan each scene and each shot in

those scenes -- Shoot them -- Trim them -- Assemble them into scenes -- ( a serious professional would find the trimmer useful . I am

just a lazy casual hobbyist . I do not use the trimmer much except perhaps for giving shots meaningful names/sequence numbers) .

Then assemble the scenes into the movie adding titles , transitions etc. ( dialogue needs careful treatment . commentary and music can

be recorded and added separately . ) .

[HoosierGuy]

Lets say you record someone sitting at a desk talking on a phone. And on a another track you play a sound of a bird. I did that. I wanted the bird sound to sound like it came from out of the house. But instead it seemed like the bird sound was not natural. The bird sound was a real recording of a bird. Is there is away to control where sound appears to come from in a scene? Do you control this with volume? Fading in and out the audio?