Audi Peaks Missing / change in timeline operation?

A151 wrote on 3/9/2019, 4:25 AM

Hi,

Have the latest Vegas Pro 16. However, there appears to be an issue with the audio display on the timeline, specifically, although audio is present, the timeline bar looks flat and shows no peaks:

https://i.ibb.co/Fhx8qbL/Vegas-Pro-Issue.jpg

The other issue, although this may have changed since Vegas changed from Sony, is the audio pull bar that adjusts the audio in the timeline bar used to be in the centre of the timeline bar and you could drag it down to reduce the audio level or up or increase the audio level. The bar in the above example is now at the very top of the timeline audio bar and can only be dragged down. The only way to increase audio gain is by the sliders.

PS are we unable to embedd photos and video in this forum?

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vkmast wrote on 3/9/2019, 5:53 AM

View menu > Audio Event Waveforms (Ctrl+Shift+W) ?

Insert Audio Envelope > Volume (Shift+V) ? (Use Ctrl+Shift+M to toggle Event Headers off/on)

PS are we unable to embed[d] photos and videos in this forum?

See B-5 here https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/important-information-required-to-help-you--110457/

Dexcon wrote on 3/9/2019, 6:09 AM

Re the audio pull down bars, there are 2 ways of doing a volume adjustment, and both existed the same way in Sony days (at least in VP10/11/12/13).

The audio pull down bar on the audio event has always been at the top, so only a reduction of volume has been available this way.

As vkmast alerts you to, Shift+V (both to turn on and off) gives you the blue volume band in the middle of the audio track, and it is this band that allows you to both increase and decrease volume, especially useful when using keyframing (i.e. double-clicking on the blue line to create a keyframe). This approach is sometimes called rubber-banding.

ryclark wrote on 3/9/2019, 10:58 AM

Also you could use the Normalize switch to bring up your audio levels if they are too low.

rraud wrote on 3/10/2019, 11:34 AM

To normalize an audio event, right-click the event and choose normalize in the context menu, if you wish to change the default (peak) normalize value, which I think is 0.01 dBFS, 'Options> Preferences> Audio'

The audio event's gain bar at the top of the waveform is akin to an audio console's preamp gain/trim pot, If the file was clipped at the recording stage, it will still be clipped.. even at a lower amplitude in Vegas.