Video Editing FAQs

With YouTube's becoming the most popular Internet destination, video editing has gone mainstream. Nowadays, with a camcorder at hand, everyone can be a film director. At faqbay we try to address the growing number of questions arising in connection with the video editing software, and especially questions about video effects and operation of video editing software.

How to play a video backwards in Sony Vegas

Want to rewind a portion of a video and play it again for your viewers? The nicest way to do it is to play the clip backwards. Luckily, it's pretty easy to do in Sony Vegas.

This trick applies to all versions of Sony Vegas, including the Movie Studio edition.

To play an event backwards, or reverse the clip others might say, select the event on the timeline and right-click it. Next, press the Reverse option from the context menu and wait a couple of seconds for Vegas to complete the task for you.

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How to make a teleport effect in Sony Vegas

You can easily teleport a cat or even human in Sony Vegas and Sony Vegas Movie Studio using a simple FX trick. In this tutorial we're showing you how.

We've been asked this question a lot recently - how to make a teleport effect in Sony Vegas, the easy way.

Don't worry, teleporting your cat or spouse has never been easier. All you need to do is to do two identical shots of the same location, preferably under identical lighting circumstances and using a camera tripod for the stable shot.

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Video Stabilization in Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10

If your camcorder doesn't have the video stabilization feature, worry no more. The new edition of Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 has it and you can easily use the effect to enhance the smoothness of your handheld camera video clips.

The video stabilization feature appeared in version 10 of Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum. This very powerful effect wasn't available to home users before and could only be found in expensive video editing software.

Thanks to Sony, now we have it in the budget edition of Sony Vegas, and it works pretty good!

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How to Make the Stop-Motion Effect in Sony Vegas and Movie Studio

Adding the stop-motion effect to your videos can make them look a bit more dramatic. In this tutorial we're showing you how to produce the stop-motion effect from a regular video clip in Sony Vegas and Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

The stop motion effect is relatively easily achieved in Sony Vegas and Sony Vegas Movie Studio.

What you need to do to apply this effect to a clip is to right-click it selecting the Properties option. Next, go to the Undersample rate box and type a value below 1.000, e.g. 0.250 to cut the fps rate for the event.

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How to change default transition length in Sony Vegas Movie Studio

If you're working on a large amount on events using transition effects frequently, you might want to change the default length of the transition to avoid the tedious work of doing it manually each time you apply an effect. This tutorial shows you how.

To change the default length of your transition effects in Sony Vegas Movie Studio, go to the Options › Preferences menu and switch to the Editing tab. Set the transition length in the Cut-to-overlap conversion (seconds) box.

Click OK. From now on, all transitions applied will be of that length.

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