Beginners Guide for VEGAS Movie Studio 14 Platinum (how to use)

: By: Derek Moran; In: VEGAS Movie Studio; Published: 10 September 2017; Last Updated: 02 September 2022

Learn all about Settings, Keyboard Short Cuts, Tools, Functions and how to start Editing video, using (Magix) Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 14 video editing software.

This is the perfect first tutorial to watch, if you have just purchased Vegas Movie Studio 14 Platinum and are officially feeling overwhelmed and freaking out quite a lot! In this tutorial I teach you how to use all the most common editing tools and functions in the program. I also explain the full workflow for making a project from the very beginning, right to the end.

This is one of those tutorials where it is far better to simply watch the video than read confusing explanations in a written article, so I recommend you make a cup of tea or crack open some beers and enjoy this lengthy jam packed video tutorial. If you have any questions afterwards, post a friendly comment below or go to the Movie Studio Zen Forum and post your questions there. The MSZ Forum is a better place to ask questions, if you have something more complicated to explain. On the forum, you can upload screen shots to better explain any problem you may be experiencing.

Topics Covered in this Beginners Guide Tutorial

How to Customize Important Settings, for better editing performance.
How to Start a New Project
How to Organise your Media Files
How to Set your Project Video Properties
Understanding Different/Older Video Formats and Settings
How to Manually Set your Project Properties
How to Create and Save a Custom Template
How to Import your Videos and Media Files
How to use the most popular Editing Tools and Functions
Explanation of New Timeline Tools
How to Create Fades and Transitions
How to use Event Pan/Crop Tool for Zooming and Cropping
How to use the Track Motion Tool to create Picture in Picture FX
How to add Titles and Text
How to Render your Videos
How to Upload a Video to YouTube

Which Video Region do you live in ?

You need to tell Vegas Movie Studio which region you live in or what type of camera you use. There are three main video systems being used on Planet Earth - NTSC, PAL and SECAM. If you are un-sure as to which system your country/region uses, then please refer to this excellent map on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PAL-NTSC-SECAM.svg

Please note that if you are in a SECAM country, you can also use the PAL System. So always choose PAL in Movie Studio settings.

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· 09:06 21/12/2021
Using Movie Studio 14 Platinum . I foolishly updated from Win 10 to Win 11. Could this cause some of buttons in my pan and zoom window to be unresponsive? Can't get the preview window to react when I adjust still photo in work space window. .. IS there another version of MS that I should upgrade to? Thanks for info regarding Magix and Vegas.
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  · 21:12 21/12/2021
  
  There are no versions of Vegas that are officially supported by Windows 11 yet.
  All versions of Vegas are only supported by Windows 10 for now.
  You should downgrade back to Windows 10.
  Windows 11 is still too new and full of problems for now. I have been recommending no one upgrade to Windows 11 for at least another 12 months.
  If you can't downgrade, you'll have to re-install Windows 10 and all your programs.
  I have tutorials on installing Windows 10 here:
  https://www.moviestudiozen.com/free-tutorials/computers-and-video-editing
  
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  · 06:41 28/12/2021
  
  Thank you so much for your help.
  
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Kathy · 09:32 15/03/2019
I moved my project file and all of my images/videos from google drive to my desktop. Sony still pulls the iamges from the file stream. How do I get it to change where it is using files?
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  · 12:50 15/03/2019
  
  Read this FAQ:
  https://www.moviestudiozen.com/doctor-zen-faq/172-changing-file-locations-for-your-media
  
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Guy Martin · 04:44 16/01/2018
Not able to download it always ask me to change my profile
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  · 09:32 16/01/2018
  
  I can only assume your are talking about the Vegas Keyboard Shortcuts Guides?
  I looked up your email address and can see you already attempted to download the guide on the 10th of December 2017. You can't register the same email address a 2nd time, that's why you are getting this message.
  I will send a private email to you with a copy of the guides.
  
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vonsyld · 05:14 30/12/2017
I run with movie studio Platinum 14. when i make video
but now I have a problem
There are some elements that do not know if it's called it.
but they may be stuck but now I can move on and they do not want to be here they are stuck
someone who can tell me how.
have windows 10 as a control system view the picture of my problem
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  · 10:04 30/12/2017
  
  You asked the same question on Facebook.
  I will answer on FB.
  
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FayFen · 02:17 30/09/2017
Hi, thank you for the video. One correction. using SHIFT or CTRL are not the same thing while making a selection in any windows software. Holding CTRL alow one to select any items as a group , holding SHIFT alow one to select consecutive items (from first to last)
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Beginners Guide for VEGAS Movie Studio 14 Platinum (how to use)

Learn all about Settings, Keyboard Short Cuts, Tools, Functions and how to start Editing video, using (Magix) Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 14 video editing software.

Topics Covered in this Beginners Guide Tutorial

Which Video Region do you live in ?

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