Originally Posted by Eric

Youtube will become your best friend. Everything from the basics of slicing and dicing to adding photo elements and more. One thing you will find helpful right from the beginning to to figure out what you want your output to be and play with some small sample pieces with different rendering settings to get the quality and size files you are looking for.

Overall the amount of information available on Youtube for Sony Vegas is priceless, sometimes you just have to sift a bit.