The explorer tab is just windows explorer and lets you find your files without leaving the program. The project media tab shows all the media you have added to the current project you're working on, such as video files, audio files, and so on. My top left window has the file browser for project media, explorer, transitions, video effects, and media generators. I have kept mine pretty stock, I think I only have one or two windows closed out that are open on initial opening. All the other windows can be moved, deleted, added, and resized to whatever you're comfortable with. Inside the main project window at the top, you have options to start a new project, open a project, save the current project, project properties, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, make the movie, the program walkthrough, and help. The main Windows program panel has your Project, Edit, View, Insert, Tools, Options, and Help menus. The first time you open the program there is a sample project preloaded that you can take a look at and see how it was done. The welcome window allows you to select from recent projects, create a new project, open up the walkthrough of the program, or just start using the program. Of course, you want to know, what can you do with Vegas Movie Studio? Well, let's take a brief look, shall we? When you open Vegas Movie Studio there are a lot of windows open including the welcome window. You may learn it faster or slower than I did, but for the most part, it's fairly intuitive. Overall, it only took me roughly 2-3 hours to learn how to use Vegas Movie Studio with general ease. There are other things to play around with like video effects, although a good number of them require access to another program that I don't have a license for. Transitions seemed to be pretty easy, you just select the transition you want and drag it to the end of the video you want it at and when the '+' appears you drop it there. This was one of the least intuitive parts of the software for me. That will actually put the cut video back in, you actually need to get your mouse over one video piece until the hand appears and drag it over to the other end.
Splicing took me longer as it is not as simple as dragging either end of the video, before or after the cut, back to the other. I now just go to the main edit menu and cut from there after highlighting the video I want to cut. Some things took me longer to learn than I would have liked, like how to cut and splice video.
Magix does provide a rudimentary walk through option that tells you what everything does and I would recommend doing this as it does help quite a bit, even if you have some experience, as it helps get you familiar with the layout of the software. It is definitely daunting and a little confusing at first with absolutely no knowledge of how the software works.
Much like Magix's Music Maker software, I had no experience with video editing software prior to this.
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