I thought perhaps some here might be able to relate to this "behind the DVD" story.

I have produced a DVD of my daughter's school's winter music program for the last few years. It is your usual fare of K-8 singing, doing short plays, etc. As it is a small school of only about 60 kids, we also do "bonus features" that usually shows each child with their name in a special way.

This year, Vegas actually inspired one of the bonus features that ended up being very popular. As I was rendering the 480p file for the DVD, I was looking at the preview window. I have a fast machine, so the render was probably at about 3x. Perhaps because it reminded me of my childhood days of 8mm projection and how my family would run them forward fast or backward, I thought that the sped-up version would make a great bonus feature.

So, I just compressed the footage on the timeline (actually, it was a bit more involved, since I took out the titles and intros that I had put in between each scene). Apparently, 4x is the fastest that Vegas will speed up footage. The audio sped up nicely. The song in one scene that is played on recorders is clean and recognizeable, as is the last song ("Let there be Peace on Earth").

Bottom Line: I got a lot of credit for an entertaining feature that happened totally by accident - and was really because of seeing it on the Vegas preview window.