Bob,

Thanks. I searched help, but used the wrong terminology, so missed that whole section. I have it setup the way I need now.

Galen

PLus .. if you got VPro8, we now have the brilliant "Mixing Console" - yeah! Makes this bus stuff very easy to follow thru'.

Grazie

Bob, while we're at it...Forgive this naive one, but how do I put dialogs from a stereo recording into the central channel in DD 5.1 project? Suppose I recorded sound in stereo, would like to leave the ambience on the maina L/R channels (perhaps widen it a bit), but direct most of human voices in the center speaker. Add some music to back channels, and put the lowest effect sounds to the LFE channel. Any hints, please?

Piotr

Grazie,

Thanks for the tip. I am just now needing to do more with audio than before and your tip on the mixing console is very helpful. I was wondering how I was going to see all those buses without taking up my whole screen.

Thanks.

megabit - if you have your project set for 5.1, click on each channel's surround pan icon (if you want to see the expanded panner), right click and change the channel's pan law to constant or film. Now when you drag the pan node to the center it will be 100% center and -inf in all other channels.

You can also use any other pan law and simply click each channel's speaker icon (lt,rt, ls, rs) to mute sends to those channels and the voice (even a stereo track) will be center only.

If mixing for film/DVD I would use -3 or -6db pan law for stereo music or ambience tracks and just drag the pan node to the center to balance (turn off the center speaker icon if you don't want any bleed into the center channel, or adjust the center balance at the bottom if for some reason you do).

To send a track to the LFE, just click the small "LFE" in the upper right corner of the expanded surround panner. Just be careful about routing tracks to the LFE directly. Anything you send will disappear in a 2 channel downmix as DD drops the LFE during down convert.

(Hope Bob doesn't mind my fielding this one)

"(Hope Bob doesn't mind my fielding this one)"

Be my guest, I've never even played with 5.1 however I think there's a problem here. How to separate the 3 front channels from the stereo recording.

With a bit of luck you could remove the dialogue from the ambient, the other way around, to get just the centre channel from the recording I think is impossible.

Bob.

hmmm..

ok, I've got 7 different audio buses set up now, associated with 7 different tracks. Everything is good as far as seeing the meters, etc. but, for some reason I can no longer mute any particular track. I've tried the mute buttons on the track in vegas time line, the mute button in the console mixer, but no luck. If I delete the audio buses and just see the normal audio tracks in vegas they will mute fine. I've checked to make sure that there is not some extra track or take any where and there is not.

Any ideas?? Using VPro 8.

Thanks

Galen - not sure why mute isn't working. It works fine here with multiple tracks assigned to individual busses. If you create a new project with several tracks assigned to busses, does mute work there? (just to be sure it isn't a corrupt project, or a project setting I'm not aware of).

Also, why are you assigning busses to check individual track levels? If you open the V8 mixer, you have level meters for each track (and busses) there (not the master/buss window that is docked with the default project view - the separate mixer window). Pardon me if I've misinterpreted what you are trying to do.