Audio Problem, driving me crazy

MUTTLEY wrote on 6/9/2005, 5:09 PM

Okay so I have a an audio problem that has wasted about 8 hours of my life rendering and rerendering trying to fix, time ta call in the big guns.

I have an audio sound at aprox. 1:10 in my project but when I render to AVI it is putting the sound in TWICE for no reason that I can find. It comes in at about 55 seconds and than again where it should be at 1:10. I can assure you it is NOT on the timeline twice and when playing from the project its simply not there. If I prerender the file its not there. When I render it out, just shoot me in the head, its there.

As it only happens if I render the whole thing, everytime I try to fix it takes 2 hours to rerender and check.

Anyone have any clue what could be going on here ?

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 6/9/2005, 5:22 PM
Does it happen if you render to WAV? If not, render it to a new WAV file, then load the AVI you've already created into a new project and replace the audio track with this new WAV file. If it does still have the problem, well at least this is a much faster way to check what the result will be. For that matter you could try rendering smaller sections before, during, and after the problem to try to isolate it. Stitching these sections back together and doing another AVI to AVI render is very fast.
johnmeyer wrote on 6/9/2005, 5:33 PM
Is the sound part of a video file, or is it a sound file? What is the nature of the file that holds the sound? Is this Vegas 5 or 6? If 6, does this use nested VEG files? I've wondered what would happen with nested VEG files if you have a project that points to a VEG that points to another VEG that points back to the first VEG. Probably not your problem, but the loop is an interesting issue.
MUTTLEY wrote on 6/9/2005, 5:51 PM

I'll try that Chien and letcha know what happens.

John, its a wav file from one of the Sony Cinemascape collection. Its far enough away from where it should be that its not looping, just playing it again. But no, its not a nested timeline, its the original veg file.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com
PeterWright wrote on 6/9/2005, 7:03 PM
Don't know the cause, but to avoid the wasted 2 hours I would keep rendering just that section till its ok, then use that render in the final overall render.

You could even try removing or muting the sound, rendering the section without it, then adding the sound back to the rendered section.

Too obvious, but I assume you've tried rebooting the PC?
Spot|DSE wrote on 6/9/2005, 7:51 PM
Ray, dumb question probably, but by any chance have you inserted an effect like a delay that is set to forever? Highly unlikely, but gotta ask.
Look in your Edit Details, see if the sound is repeated in there
MUTTLEY wrote on 6/10/2005, 12:56 AM

Haven't tried everything yet but the " ghost " version of the sound is happening before the actual sound, not sure what effect could do that but always worth asking.

And though I'm fairly confidant that one of the workarounds will do the trick, that doesn't make me feel to good about why its happening and why I am having to find a workaround.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com
farss wrote on 6/10/2005, 1:12 AM
That's true but so many times I;ve tried one of those workarounds and whne it's worked I've got a point to work back from and then discover I've done something totaly screwball or maybe something subtle that Vegas took a quite logical approach to, just that it wasn;t the same way I thought it'd work.
And yes, as I get wiser I keep a weather eye one the EDL pane.
Bob.