Learning Vegas

joejon wrote on 10/17/2003, 9:15 PM

Does anyone have any suggestions on a good book on learning Vegas? The manual is sparse and so is the online help. I don't want anything too heavy duty that covers everything under the sun that you can do with Vegas, just something that is easy to understand and is thorough in its explanations. I have Vegas+DVD.

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DGrob wrote on 10/17/2003, 9:42 PM

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578202191/qid=1066444853/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5441132-6069425?v=glance&s=books

Great book. DGrob

Jsnkc wrote on 10/17/2003, 10:13 PM

I'll second that vote, also there is a series of DVD's as well done by the same person that are very good! You can find them at Class On Demand

BillyBoy wrote on 10/17/2003, 10:33 PM

I happen to think the manual is very well written. So too the online help. Bet you're only looking at the Quick Start Guide. The full mannual is in PDF format runs around 360 pages. Click on Support above.

jetdv wrote on 10/17/2003, 10:33 PM

There's the book and DVD set already mentioned by Douglas Spotted Eagle. There's also a DVD set by Gary Kleiner at www.vegastrainingandtools.com Finally, you may want to look at the Vegas Tips, Tricks, and Scripts Newsletter

sbs56 wrote on 10/17/2003, 10:52 PM

You might look into Sonic Foundry's (Sony's) "Digital Video and Audio Production" for Vegas 4.0. Touches on all the essentials with lot's of hands-on, step-by-step exercises (samples files are included). You can order this on this website (select "Support", then "Books and Training").

BillyBoy wrote on 10/17/2003, 10:57 PM

Also several people have Vegas web sites. You can find mine and everyone else that I'm aware has one here:

http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-menu.htm

If anyone else has a site not included on my web site and you want to be, give me a holler.

rzanotti wrote on 10/17/2003, 11:55 PM

I just purchased and finished going through Douglas Spotted Eagle's Digital Video Workshop DVD training.

It was absolutely excellent. As I mentioned to him in an e-mail, it was like learning from an old friend. My editing skills have improved dramatically since going through his training.

It is well worth the $100+ investment. You can buy it at amazon.com. Here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009XFQM/qid=1066452838/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_4/102-5527198-3519321?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 (watch the wrapping on the uRL or just do a search on Spotted Eagle").

Hope that helps.

rmack350 wrote on 10/18/2003, 2:59 AM

Another thing that's pretty helpful is following this forum, the cow, and the DMN forum. Break out Vegas and follow along as you read. Try things out.

Especially helpful is figuring out the problems of one especially loud member as his posts are about very, very basic things that you can easily solve in about 2 minutes of fiddling.

Jump in!

Rob Mack

theigloo wrote on 10/18/2003, 10:12 AM

When I bought Vegas 2, there was an option to get a $25 video tutor CD. That CD really got me rolling.

I think Sony would be smart to give that out for free. Maybe even post it online. Customer aquisition is directly related to the learning curve. Flatten the curve, get more customers.

TimLong wrote on 10/18/2003, 11:44 AM

I agree with everybody here. I'm a newbie and so far Douglas Spotted Eagle's book has been wonderful. He explains everything so that even I understand it!

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/18/2003, 12:10 PM

There is LOTS of online help, much of it compiled at http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/help/kb
There are over 170 training/learning veg's submitted by users, plus over 70 tutorials, and links to tutorials from BillyBoy and other Vegas users. Also on the DMN and Sony forums you'll find hundreds of users that will help with specific questions providing the questions aren't written as though you were from Mars or something.
Welcome to Vegas!

FuTz wrote on 10/19/2003, 7:57 AM

Another free option; you can register to jetdv's tutorials via the Web. It's a monthly tutorial concerning differents topics and is very instructive.

www.jetdv.com/tts

If this link doesn't work, write directly to the guy to ask for subscription:

vegastips@jetdv.com

jetdv wrote on 10/19/2003, 10:13 PM

futz,

The link you entered is correct. Could you please edit the e-mail address to change @ to AT and . to DOT?

chauffer wrote on 10/20/2003, 3:33 AM

Went through the process of buying Sony's Digital Video and Audio Production book and found that as I live in the UK the shipping price was almost twice the cost of the book itself. This put me right off.
Searched Amazon UK with no luck.

joejon wrote on 10/20/2003, 10:45 AM

Thanks for all the input and helpful information. The DVD version of Digital Video Workshop is Higher $, so if the book covers basically the same info. I'll probably go with the book. Hopefully it won't be too 'over my head'. The Digital Video and Audio Production book looked a little more classroom/tutorial based which doesn't appeal to me as much. The VegasVideo Editing: A Quick-Start Guide looked good, but I prefer referencing a book instead of a DVD.