User manual SONIC FOUNDRY VEGAS VIDEO 4

[. . . ] After you install Vegas and start it for the first time, the registration wizard appears. This wizard offers easy steps that enable you to register Vegas online with Sonic Foundry. Alternately, you may register Vegas online at www. sonicfoundry. com at any time. Registering your product provides you with exclusive access to a variety of technical support options, notification of product updates, and special promotions exclusive to registered Vegas users. [. . . ] You can also create multiple title images and then use crossfades or custom transitions between them. For more information, see Using transition effects on page 201. Adding closed captioning to Windows Media Video (WMV) files Closed captioning makes your final video accessible to a wider audience. You can use text commands to add captions line-by-line to a Windows Media Video (WMV) file, or for longer projects, you can add captioning from a script. Adding closed captioning line-by-line 1. Position the cursor where you want the closed captioning text to appear. 2. In the Parameter box, enter the closed captioning text you want to display. 5. Repeat steps 1-5 for each line of closed captioning text you want to add. Tip: Take steps to ensure that the closed captioning displays when the video is played. For more information, see Displaying closed captioning on page 174. Adding closed captioning from a script Using a script to generate closed captioning involves several steps. First, you must copy and paste the lines from the script into a spreadsheet. You can create the spreadsheet from scratch (using the steps that follow) or use the sample shell (Vegas Captioning Shell. txt) provided in the Samples folder on the Vegas CD. You can open this tab-delimited shell with a spreadsheet application or, in the absence of a spreadsheet application, any text editor. Once the spreadsheet is complete, you can copy and paste the lines into the Edit Details window. You can set the position for each line of closed captioning during playback in Vegas. USING ADVANCED VIDEO FEATURES CHP. In the first column, enter 00:00:00:00 in each of the cells as a placeholder. You will set the actual position of each line during playback in Vegas. 3. In the second column, enter TEXT in each of the cells to specify the command type. In the third column, enter the text that you want to display as a closed caption. Enter each line in its own cell. Tip: If you have a script, you can copy and paste individual lines into the cells. 5. An entry such as Line 001 can help you sort the captions once you paste them into Vegas. Note: The final caption displays in the Windows Media Player until the end of the video. To clear the final caption sooner, add a final command with no text (as shown above). CHP. 11 USING ADVANCED VIDEO FEATURES 174 Copying and pasting captions into Vegas 1. Right-click the gray box in the upper-left corner and choose Paste from the shortcut menu. [. . . ] Multiple audio tracks are mixed together to give you a composite sound that you hear. Multiple video tracks are composited on top of each other to create the final video output. GLOSSARY APPENDIX B 299 Track List The track list appears at the left side of the Vegas workspace and contains the master controls for each track. From here you can adjust track volume or transparency, add track effects, mute or solo tracks, and reorder tracks. Track View The track view, or timeline, is the space events appear on tracks. µ-Law µ-Law (mu-Law) is a companded compression algorithm for voice signals defined by the Geneva Recommendations (G. 711). The G. 711 recommendation defines µ-Law as a method of encoding 16-bit PCM signals into a nonlinear 8-bit format. [. . . ]