Gerry
As a singer songwriter you will appreciate that Vegas was an audio editor before it became a video editor.
Very basic is that you import you video clips into Vegas you can preview them as well as trim them in a preview window and thendrop them on to the time line in the order you want touse them. As you do that they will be added to your project media folder.
That is a very simplework process and there are so many option on the way you can work in Vegas. There are some tutorial videos on the web that you can search on. I would higly recomend the Vegas training DVD’s from VASST. They get you through a lot of the small things that you need to know that can take the frustration out of the edit. I find that the Sony documentation is a little lacking of detail.
There are a lot of options on effect. You can apply some if not all effects to a whole time line if you choose, or to individual clips depending on what you are trying to achieve.
As far as rendering that is the last thing that I do. How you render depends on what you are going to do with the video. If you are creating a DVD and using the Vegas DVD software you will render the video and audio seperatly. Vegas has a lot of pre-sets for rendering depending on what you are doing
Good luck
Tony
