Vegas 6 Revealed: The Official Guide [Paperback]

Doug Sahlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 22, 2005 | ISBN-10: 1592009719 | ISBN-13: 978-1592009718 | Edition: 1

Vegas 6 is a non-linear video editing application featuring an intuitive interface that allows you to compile, trim, and edit digital video. Covering the logical workflow of a Vegas project, from capturing video to rendering the finished project, "Vegas 6 Revealed: The Official Guide" covers all aspects of creating video productions with Vegas 6.0. Learn how to create compelling video productions using the software toolset, from the basic facets of digital video editing such as editing clips and assembling a project, to more advanced features such as how to create special effects and working with digital sound. The book can be read from cover-to-cover or it can serve as a handy desktop reference for specific video editing task. Written in an approachable style with definitions, Quick Tips, and how-to tutorials throughout, "Vegas 6 Revealed: The Official Guide" will help you master all of the features of Vegas 6, Sony's popular, feature-rich video editing application.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Doug Sahlin is an author, photographer, and videographer living in Central Florida. He is the author of 15 books on graphic design, digital imaging, and digital video applications, including How To Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Digital Photography QuickSteps, and Naked Vegas 5.0. Sahlin?s articles and product reviews have appeared in national publications such as Computer Graphics World, 3D Magazine, Video Systems, and Corel Magazine. His tutorials have been featured at numerous Web sites devoted to graphic design. Sahlin uses digital imaging and video equipment to create media for use in client Web sites and CD ROM presentations. He co-authored 50 Fast Digital Video Techniques (Wiley Publishing) with Bonnie Blake and recently finished a revision of his popular How To Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat. Sahlin has also taught businesses how to use Sony Vegas to create videos for employee tutorials, and multimedia promotions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (September 22, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592009719
• ISBN-13: 978-1592009718
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,483,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doug Sahlin is a graphic and website designer, photographer, and the author of several books, including How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 8.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Vegas 6 Mostly Revealed, March 3, 2006

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Daniel Kozminski - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vegas 6 Revealed: The Official Guide (Paperback)

This book is an excellent resource for someone like me who is a novice to Vegas. I believe that after reading this book and very carefully following the exercises that I have developed a firm foundation upon which to build. It would have been nice if the book went into further detail in some areas, such as vectorscopes, but I guess that would be beyond the intent of the book. After reading this book you will have a firm enough grasp on Vegas' capabilities that you will be able to deftly handle your first few projects. However, I suspect that you, like me, will want to go further and obtain additional in depth information about the hidden powers of Vegas.

My biggest complaint about this book is that the binding is atrocious. Before I read through the first 20 or 30 pages, the pages started to separate from the spine and from each other. My book now lies in many pieces and parts, some comprised of only a few pages, while others are whole sections of the book that became separated. When this first started happening I reached for the Scotch tape, and then the Scotch 2 inch wide shipping tape in an effort to stem the bleeding; I finally gave up. Even with all the taping my book is now comprised of 7 pieces/sections loosely slipped inside the cover.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Overview & Useful Tips, January 26, 2006

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Clayton Coulter (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vegas 6 Revealed: The Official Guide (Paperback)

I enjoyed reading this book. It was a good overview of Sony Vegas 6 and its capabilites. The tips and examples provided were interesting and useful. I would have liked to see detailed handling of topics like color correction and other more advanced techniques. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to get a general feel for what Sony Vegas 6 can do and how to do it. One note: There is a reference in the book to downloadable files - but these didn't exist. I e-mailed the author to find out how to get the files. I received an e-mail that he was screening e-mail and I explained what I was e-mailing about. The author never bothered to respond to my request. Disappointing behavior...but the book makes up for it. ;)

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of time and money, June 20, 2006

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M. Tener (Ga./NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vegas 6 Revealed: The Official Guide (Paperback)

The instructions border on moronic... If you haven't used a computer maybe you would need some of advice offered in here, even after the first few pages though you'd be annoyed at the preposterous styling of this painfully dull toilet paper. Nearly all the instructions are written in a border format (literally written on the borders of the page), which would, if properly laid out, wouldn't hit 100 pages. Every single example starts with telling you to open a file (the full process of how to do it), which makes up half of the instructions for each walk through... Painfully stupid and annoying. Maybe the first time is understandable, but doing it on nearly every other page is just filling space. Just by using Vegas by yourself, you will learn as much as you won't from reading this book. This is a pure and unquestionable waste of money and time. I bought Vegas 6 Editing Workshop at the same time by Douglas Spotted Eagle. It's not what I would call the perfect book, but several laps around the earth better then this tripe trash. This may be half the price of the Editing Workshop but it's value is more then 10 fold. Unless you don't like your money and your lookin' to get rid of it... you could still waste it on something better then this.