Audio Levels in Sony Vegas

Video Transcript

"Hi Mike Purdy for Expert Village and today we're talking about editing video with vegas. I'm going to show you something here it's kind of an aside you'll notice here that we have no audio level here if we select this right click on it and go to properties. You will see an option called normalize, what normalize will do is it will up the gain by 19.6 decibels in other words it will turn the gain up so it will be loud enough to actually see on the timeline, you see that. Now that we got the volume where we can see it we got the video where we can see it, we have the video monitor open down here we can actually start to do some editing. Now there's a couple of ways we want to zoom on this one is to select the zoom tool and circle the area that you want to zoom to full screen. And you see it will zoom it up to full screen, now let's go back to this edit tool I'm selecting here with my left mouse click, hit the space bar to play, we see the voice, that's not the tack I want, let's try this, here's how you cut it's very very easy in vegas. We have this tool selected this is the point where we want to cut the video hit the "s" key "s" scroll snip that and we can select this hit the delete key and it deletes it, delete now I like to use the buttons down here to zoom it because I like to keep one tool selected all the time it's all a matter of preference. Now I slide this over you can slide this around in the timeline and then with this still selected you can grab the edge of a video and actually trim it by just sliding it over. I'm using the left mouse button to just slide that over let's zoom on it a little bit and if you notice these controls here you can go back to the very beginning of start, there you go now we have the video more or less edited. So we've taken a piece of video, we've edited out a tape that we want and now we got a little piece of video pretty much what we're looking for."