Aaah, Ok, I have Audacity so will use that.
Shame it doesn't have its own audio editor though.
Not a vey intuitive programme like Cyberlinks or Pinnacle.
I have to use it though as it seems the only programme that will export HD to Canon HV30.
Thanks for your help. Greatly appreciated.

Boy I think you will really open up a war. I believe that Vegas actually atarted as an audio editor and many people think that it has strong audio controls. Its probably all in what you get used to.

It is just in finding them really. I just found the other two programmes much easier to handle. I find having to use the keyboard functions a bit of a pain too.
But I won't go in to the registering and all that of the various products.
Wasn't really out of the box and begin jobbie.
No wars though. I am happy enough to fiddle with Vegas and learn all its ins and outs as I go along. :)

Take your time to discover Vegas' possibilities. There's a lot more under the hood.

Okie dokie. Thanks. :)

I have tried using Audacity as the called audio editor. Problem is it doesn't work trying to use it that way. I've used Audacity on and off for a couple years, great program. But in order to use it with VMS you have to convert to .wav first while in VMS before using the clip in Audacity . On the other hand, I also have Acid Music Studio 6.0 and it is able to move audio from VMS to Acid OK. Anybody else have any luck moving audio clips directly into Audacity from VMS?

mike_in_nc

If you need to do some detailed work, get Sound Forge Audio Studio. I've been using Cool Edit Pro for 7-8 years now, which is a good program, too.

Thanks for your reply.
I had a fiddle with using the Audio Envelope and the dots routine last night and it worked just the way I had hoped.
I guess in part it is RTFM (for those that don't know it means
Read The rude-word Manual) which I haven't done as yet, preferring to use the fiddle around method.
So thanks to you all for your help. I am sure there will be more problems as I go along and I will be probably be back yet again!

Autopilot...

When I upgraded to VMS 9 Platinum Pro a few months ago, I received Sound Forge Audio as part of the upgrade. Early on I messed with it a little, but not much deciding instead to stick more with Acid for any fine tuning of audio segments. How do you like Sound Forge and it's compatibility with VMS? Are you able to move things in both directions using the Clip Board?

mike_in_nc

Howcome you get these additional programs (i.e. Sound Forge Audio) when you upgrade the \cheap studio version but not when you upgrade the full Vegas Pro?

Mike,

Sorry, but I don't use Audio Studio. I just mentioned it because the layout is similar and would be familiar to someone new at this. I'm ALL Cool Edit and I usually just save clips as WAV files and then put them on the timeline.

You know that you can send clip copies to a Preferred Audio Editor in Preferences.?.

AP...

Yes, I did know that you can send clip board copies of audio to the Preferred Audio Editor. Mine is set up to use Acid Music Studio 6. But what I haven't yet figured out is how to send the edited audio back to VMS without first having to save it as a .wav or a .wma file. It would be more convenient to be able just move the edited data back using the clipboard.

Any thoughts on this issue?

mike_in_nc

Does the studio version use Takes? I don't know, sorry. The last time i used the studio version was version 3 and it didn't have them. However, if it does and they behave like the full version ... "open copy in audio editor" should save a new .wav file and open that in the audio editor. When you save the changes in that editing program the new changes should become a new take on the timeline and automatically be there ready to go when you switch back to Vegas.

"Open in audio editor" (not open copy) should allow you to edit the actual media file, and when you save/close the audio editor Vegas will have the new changes in that media file.