I use Vegas Pro 8. I recently purchased a Korg nanoKontrol for a wholly separate purpose that didn't work out. So the nano was sitting around doing nothing. I am now trying to use it as a generic control surface to Vegas - a first for me.

I have to admit that, while I generally find the vegas manual and help screens quite useful, in the area of generic external control they're verbose but confusing as all heck.

What I want to do with the surface is trivial - use one fader knob to control the composite level automation on one video track.

When you read the manual, it's hard to see how to control video tracks at all. I guess as the common use of external control is to attach a Mackie controller, everyone is thinking audio all the time. In fact my experimentation with the function seemed to indicate that this whole setup only controls audio tracks at best!

Also the use of the word "channel" (which is used elsewhere in the program, in MIDI, and in the industry in general for completely different functions) dosen't help.

So, does anyone have or know of a really good high level descriptions of how to configure a generic surface to control video tracks? At lease can anyone explain how surface channels relate to Vegas tracks?

Thanks, Igor......