Sony Vegas has a lot of “hidden” effects buried within it. In fact, with some of these effects, people will swear that the video was made with After Effects or Final Cut…instead of Sony Vegas.

Today I’m going to share with you one of these effects. It’s an effect that’s used quite often in image editing software like Photoshop. But we’re going to do it with video.

And what we’re going to do, is cut out a specific portion of a video clip…and replace it with another clip that looks better. Specifically in this tutorial, we’re going to remove a dull, lifeless, washed-out sky from a clip…and replace it with a vibrant sky that has moving clouds.

How do we do this? It’s all in the video tutorial below. Just click on the image to watch it now (if you’re a Firefox user, you’ll need to be using Firefox 3.0 or above to watch this video):