Audio: Mute Selected?

garo wrote on 4/11/2004, 10:42 PM

I use Vegas to record and edit all my sound tracks so I guess I'm on the right forum for audio questions?
Anyway I want to mute a specific little "slice" of audio - I have a Audio Envelope and Insert Point stuff working but I have to inserty four points to get the muting effext I want
Isn't there an easier way?
I'm thinking "Mute Selected" kind of thing .....

TIA! - Garo

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 4/11/2004, 10:57 PM

To totally mute the section, you could slice out a piece alltogether.

Otherwise the 4 points on an audio envelope is the way to go.
Four Points Wizard in Neon lays them all down at once and speeds the process.

Gary

garo wrote on 4/11/2004, 11:10 PM

Neon?

Cheno wrote on 4/11/2004, 11:28 PM

It's a plug-in for Vegas..

http://www.vegastrainingandtools.com/

ibliss wrote on 4/12/2004, 4:12 AM

You can mute audio or video events while they are still on the timeline by right clicking on them and choosing 'switches>mute'

GaryKleiner wrote on 4/12/2004, 12:38 PM

>You can mute audio or video events ...by right clicking on them and choosing 'switches>mute'<

Yes, but it would be a lot faster to just drag the gain down to 0.

Gary

ibliss wrote on 4/12/2004, 2:29 PM

or down to -inf... ;-)

assuming your gains are set at 0 and you can just wack them right up again - set to any other value (eg -1.8) it's not so straight forward.

Possibly the right-click>h>m is just as quick as locating the mouse pointer at the gain line and click-dragging anyway.

Plus you can select muliple events and mute them at the same time, super quick. Easier to spot a muted event - events with zero gain could be mistaken for blank 'dead' events and deleted.

And also... you can view all events in the edit details window and spot muted events easily in a large project.

I know this isn't news to you GK, just thought it might be useful to outline the workflow that works for me and why.

Mike

GaryKleiner wrote on 4/12/2004, 6:25 PM

Mike,

Yes, I see the advantages to the mute events approach. Thanks.

Gary