Product Details

• Actors: Bill Myers
• Directors: Bill Myers
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Hamilton New Media
• DVD Release Date: January 20, 2012
• Run Time: 180 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002R1X5AM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,626 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

If you want to quickly get started with Sony Movie Studio, you'll want to get this DVD. Includes more than 120 all new video tutorials showing you how to quickly create amazing effects, solve common problems, and get the most out of Sony Movie Studio. You'll discover the secret to quickly doing things like Picture-in-Picture videos, Split-Screen interview effect, flying video windows, chromakey (green-screen), professional titles and intro graphics, cloning actors, plus much more! 101 Tips & Tricks for Movie Studio covers all versions of Sony Movie Studio, and has been updated to cover Movie Studio version 11. This disk includes high resolution computer screen movies, far superior than you'd get on a normal DVD. For that reason, this disc can be viewed on any computer DVD drive, but not on DVD drives attached to TV sets. 101 Tips, Tricks & Techniques Using Sony Vegas Movie Studio shows you how to:

• Create Picture in Picture Effects in 30 seconds or less
  
• Create Split-Screen interview videos with two people on screen
• Use Chromakey effect even without blue or green background
• Convert 4:3 width video to wide screen
• Freeze frame any part of a video
• Convert videos to cartoons
• Blur out Faces on Video
  
• Spotlight a face within a video
• Clone actors within your videos
• Add product 'boxshot' animated drop-downs
• Animate titles and text
• Add Light Ray effect to titles
• Create TV commercial titles and graphics
• Create 4 way Picture in Picture (Hollywood Squares)
• Find and use Audio Effects
• Solve common Movie Studio Problems
  
• Render HQ and HD video for YouTube
• Convert Standard Definition to widescreen video for YouTube
• And much much more . . . more than 101 video tutorials in all!

You'll learn secrets that can save you hours of editing time, and change boring video into commercial and YouTube successes! Highly recommended! This is what one of our customers had to say . . .

"I would also like to take this opportunity to tell you what a wonderful video this is. Your training video is exactly what I like. Short, sweet and to the point. I hate reading manuals and this video is more than enough to get anyone comfortable with the Sony software. Great job!!!                                                              Donna B."

Note:
This DVD is a data DVD that will play in any computer DVD drive and will produce very high resolution video. This DVD will NOT play in DVD players attached to TV sets.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT resource for learning Sony Vegas Movie Studio, April 16, 2010

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Freelancer (East Coast, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 101 Tips & Tricks for Sony Movie Studio - updated for Movie Studio 11 (DVD)

I had been trying to find instructional materials to help me through the process of learning Vegas Movie Studio without much luck. Frustrated by the seeming lack of availability of any instructional materials for this wonderful video editing application, I decided to search on Youtube to see if I could find anything that might be useful to help me learn the program. That's where I found many helpful video tips posted by Bill Meyers; the author and producer of "101 Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Sony Vegas Movie Studio". I only wish I had found his video tips before I wasted a LOT of my time sifting through Youtube videos posted by BRAProductions and another Youtube user named Mark Apsolon. These other two youtube users are self absorbed people who are more interested in promoting themselves and increasing their comments and number of views for their youtube videos than in helping their viewers learn something. If you want to waste incredible amounts of your time to "possibly" learn a tidbit of something useful here or there, then I suggest you go to Youtube and view videos on Sony Vegas posted by Mark Apsolon. You will watch a 15 to 20 minute video of him talking about his website and his random drawing contest for people who post comments on his videos and maybe he'll actually discuss Sony Movie Studio for 3 or 4 meandering minutes out of a 20 minute video. I think you'll find like I did that watching his videos are a complete waste of your time.

If you value your time like I do and really want to learn useful tips that will quickly get you working in this wonderful video application, then check out some of Bill Meyers Youtube videos on Sony Vegas Movie Studio and then Purchase "101 Tips and Tricks". I didn't purchase my copy from Amazon; I purchased it from Bill Meyers website, along with another video, "Tools of How to Video Production". Bill Meyers is very knowledgeable about using both Sony Vegas and Movie Studio and is an excellent teacher. His no nonsense approach to sharing his knowledge of these applications is well planned and thought out before he actually films his video clips, so what you get are short and concise video clips that get right to the point. All of his clips focus on demonstrating specific steps in accomplishing a variety of different tasks to aid the viewer in putting together your own video clips to make a complete DVD video production. The DVD is well organized and includes many videos that you won't find on youtube. I was convinced that purchasing his instructional DVD would be a good educational investment after watching some of his video clips on youtube and I was right! If you want to quickly learn valuable tips and information to help you get started in editing your own videos using Vegas Movie Studio, then I highly recommend you purchase this DVD as well as checking out his youtube videos; just search for Bill Meyers, Sony Vegas.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am so glad I found this! It is great!!!, December 7, 2010

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David A. Morehead (Lockport, IL 60441) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 101 Tips & Tricks for Sony Movie Studio - updated for Movie Studio 11 (DVD)

Pros...

Lots of great content broken up into small segments. It's very easy to find what you need.
The videos are short, to the point and show you exactly what you need to do to get a particular effect. Bill uses lots of screen shots so you can see everything he is doing very easily.
The material covered is very relevant to what you will actually need to do a real world project. Blur out faces, spotlight faces, slow motion, green screen effect (like you see all the time on tv and in the movies) so you can have very professional looking backgrounds, change from color to B&W, make new video look like older footage, etc...

The DVD covers the basics, telling you what settings to use when you are first starting out. Then, it covers many effects that you will need if you want your videos to look like the pro videos you see on TV all the time.

I am only half way through the videos right now and I can already say I am thoroughly happy with this product. I wanted to learn video editing very quickly. Now, that I have this DVD, I am confident I will be making pro looking videos in no time. I leave this istructional DVD software running in the background. If I forget how to do something, I open this program, point on the topic I need, and I get step by step instructions on how to do what I am trying to do. It encourages you to try new things. Help is only an alt-tab away!

If you want to learn how to use Sony Vegas movie studio in the shortest amount of time, do yourself a huge favor and order this. You will love it.

Cons...

None

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best source to learn Sony Movie studio., October 3, 2010

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Rob "Do-it-yourselfer" (Freeport, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 101 Tips & Tricks for Sony Movie Studio - updated for Movie Studio 11 (DVD)

I will make this short and sweet. Bill Myers delivers a how to video that is wonderful. Even though I have Pro 9, the basic are all the same. Without this video I would been pulling my hair out by the roots as I hate to read manuals. Bills intructions are clear and to the point. He explains everything thoroughly and will have you doing your own special effects in no time. I highly recomend this video for anyone who has a Sony Video software and little or no experience in video editing like myself. In fact I dare say it is a must unless you like to frustrate yourself. Good job Bill and keep them coming.