Blogging

February 25, 2010

How to organize and backup a Sony Vegas project

Updated 6/29/2011 with notes about the “Remove from Project and Delete Files” command

As I prepare and edit a video in Sony Vegas Pro, I tend to get a bit disorganized, bringing in source pictures, video and animations from various places on my hard disk. I’m especially bad about saving pictures temporarily on my desktop.

Sometimes, I do a bazillion takes of voiceover audio, and end up with countless unused wave files in the project.

So, in order to eliminate those unused takes, and to consolidate the files into a single location, ready to be backed up, here’s what I do.More

December 4, 2009

Evolution of a Blog

Blogging Blogging, Learning 3

Hey there. This is my first post that isn’t about guitar.

It has been just a few months since my first blog and video post, and there have already been nearly 20,000 views of my guitar videos on youtube. I never could’ve expected that!

It’s been an interesting evolution for me. This started out on a whim, recording a quickie review of my new guitar on my crappy webcam and throwing together a video in Windows Movie Maker. Then, as I started tweaking the electronics in my guitar, it evolved into a video diary of sorts. Now, I’m recording in high definition on a nice camcorder, with multiple microphones, close-ups, various camera setups, and using Sony Vegas Pro to edit it all together, with countless edits in each video!