I learned a lot about audio by reading the help contents in Sound Forge. I believe the Vegas Video help contents contain a glossary of terms and definitions as well.

One of the best ways I have found to learn (albeit the most difficult and time consuming) is going through and learning the motions...and the concepts tend to come along by themself.

That is....edit a scence and render it as full uncompressed AVI. Then do the same thing to a compressed MPEG. It takes you about 0.002 seconds to figure out that compressing to MPEG gets you a smaller file than uncompressed AVI. And depending on the size of your file, it can take a lot of time to render. But...after you do this once or twice - you kinda pick up on the concepts really quickly.

As for some of the other terms...the VV manual and glossary is great. But...here is my take. If you don't know what something is right off it's pretty much because you don't need to use it (right away) or you just haven't used it yet.

For example....compressing and getting ready to burn a DVD disc. If you have no need to do this or don't have the equipment to do it anyway - what real difference does it make - ya can't use it. So it pretty much falls into the category of waiting until you are ready to use...then the concept will be plain as day.

As for NLE in general - well, that concept is wrapped up in the name Non-Linear Editing. It's not linear (or in a straight line). You can jump around all you want at any hither and yon (has anyone actually ever went hither or yon? Which is closer? Hither or Yon? Did I spell Yon correctly?) But I digress.

Hope my babble helps.

Thanks for the answers. I didn't think to look in the manuals for the definitions. I will do that.

As far as burning DVD's, I do have the equipment and desire, but not the technical know-how. I have been experimenting as much as I can, and realize that's where a big chunk of the learning happens. However, I am the type of learner that understands bits and pieces only, untill finally the light goes on for the bigger picture of how things all interact and relate to each other.

I am only working on hobbyist things right now, movies of the kids etc..., and trying to learn all I can about editing. A lot of the things I see on this forum I will probably never need, but the curiosity is there.

And I've never been to either hither or yon, but a buddy said he went to yon once. I don't know if I believe him or not. And I think Hither is closer on this side of the International Date Line. :)

I think Hither is where all the attractive ladies live. You've heard of a pretty woman giving the "Come Hither" look, haven't you? I guess that's where she lives.

As for Yon, I guess that's the next town after Boondocks.

Chumash,

I just wanted to mention that there is a site which has loads of information about burning DVDs etc... go to DVDRhelp.com. You'll find short tutorial on the tecnichal and practical issues and loads of other useful info. I do this as a hobby and have learnt everything off the net (forums, dvdrhelp.com etc...)

A book is on the way written by Vegas guru Douglas Spotted Eagle (found in the Vegas forum on DMN Forums) on Vegas 4 (and I think DVDA). The book is sold on amazon...

Otherwise, just post questions on here, the DVDA forum or any other Vegas related forum...

Regards

Paul.

Chumash,
For books, go here: http://www.cmpbooks.com/scripts/shop and then look under the "Creative Technologies" section.

I have purchased a few of those books and they are a really good starting reference for anything from NLE to Colour Correction ..

Happy reading ..
Tom