Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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This is a Beginners Guide for how to use Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 17 (Part 3/6). In this tutorial, I show you how to edit video on the Vegas Timeline.

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🔗 Chapter Topics for this Video
0:00 Intro
0:42 Starting a New Project & Importing Media
2:01 Creating Video Proxies for 4K Videos
2:38 Trimming & Cutting up videos
3:06 S = Split
3:15 DEL = Delete
3:23 CTRL + Z (Un-do)
3:38 Drag to Cut Video
4:10 Cloning Media
4:49 Auto-Ripple Tool
6:28 Trimmer window
9:19 Finding Beginning & Ends of Videos
10:01 CTRL + Y (Re-do)
10:14 Zooming In and Making BIGGER
11:17 Editing Tool Modes
11:37 Shuffle tool
12:23 Slip Tool
12:56 Slide Tool
13:24 Time Stretch
14:41 Split/Trim Tool
15:17 Moving Edited Sections on the Timeline
16:25 Restore Track Height
16:37 Picture in Picture FX
19:14 Add New Video Tracks
19:24 Add new Audio Tracks
20:00 Mouse Wheel Zooms Timeline In/Out
21:08 Video Transitions
25:48 Event Pan/Crop
28:24 Track Motion window
30:50 Applying Video FX
33:11 Playback Shortcuts
33:25 Spacebar = Play
33:33 J K L = Rewind, Play, Forward
34:41 `~key to Shrink/Expand Track Heights
34:55 F11 = Full-screen Timeline
35:10 Audio Volume Controls

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