I believe you are looking for the "Mute" and "Solo" buttons on the track headers. If you can't see them, expand the headers.

Don't know if I understand your question correctly or not.
Assuming you have one video track and under that 3 audio tracks.
By default when you drag a video clip onto that video track Vegas will put the audio from it onto the first / nearest lower audio track. No way to change this behavior. Two ways to live with this.

Rearaange your audio tracks so the first audio track will be the one that should have the camera audio on it. You can move them later if you wish by dragging the track headers up and down.

Simply drag the audio event from the camera down to any audio track. Iy will stay in sync UNLESS you have Ignore Event Grouping turned On.

Hope that helps and hope I understood your question correctly.

Bob.

I would like to have interviews on audio track one, natural sound on track two and music from the same tape on track 3. Some of the interviews have b roll and the audio from the b roll goes to track 2.

This is not the best way, but here is a trick to do what you want.

Create a video track and however many audio tracks you think you might want. In this example, 2.

Drag your video to the timeline and notice the video track and the top audio track are populated.

Now if you want the next video event to have the audio on the other audio track, grab the header of the lower audio track and move it up above the top audio track (so now the audio track right below the video track is blank). Drag your next video event down and the audio will populate the blank audio track. Then you can always readjust the audio track order.

Hope this makes sense.

Dave T2

So what if you record in your camera your main audio on channel one and you nat sound on channel two. How do you assign, lets say channel one on you camera to track two on the timeline and channel two on the camera to track one on the timeline?
This is very easy to do in other systems, you just assign the channel you want to the track you want to send it.

Vegas almost always works are Stereo Audio pairs. In this case, you would edit the same audio track to two vegas audio tracks and then Right Click and select your audio source Left or Right Channel.

No automatic way to do it.

Dave T2

Thanks Dave,
Going back to my original question. If there's no way to assign a source to the assigned audio track, then I can move up the target audio track to the front of the audio tracks and insert the video and audio track and keep switching them every time I want to use a different audio track.

Yeah, that is the easiest way I could figure out.

Dave T2

Not very efficient.

I tend to put the most audio events on the topmost audio track. For example, if i have 300 camera clips with their associated audio i'll put those on the top track. I'll put the smaller numbers of audio events such as music beds or the occasional sound effect on lower tracks. That way most of the time the audio i drag onto the timeline ends up on the top track where it is supposed to go.

The relatively few times i want the camera audio on a different track, i simply drag that event down to the track i want it on after putting it on the timeline. Not much efficiency lost if you start off with a reasonable track order.

There is a simple way to do this but you need a free VST plugin called Stereo Tools.

Now all you have to do is duplicate you camera audio track, add that plugin to both track headers and use the plugin to select channel 1 or channel 2 as appropriate.

I agree, not that elegant however Vegas has always treated camera audio as a stereo pair rather than dual mono because that's how all but a couple of cameras flag it.

Bob.

[edit] There is another way, the one I generally use.
Duplicate track as above. Select All events to end and change channel under properties, repeat for other track. Probably better because Vegas then displays the same waveform as you hear.

If you need to split the stereo camera audio track into 2 mono tracks, select Render To New Track, choose mono track of whatever spec you like (same as source is best), and do it twice, once each with pan slider each side.

geoff

Since VP9, you can import stereo as 2 mono:
Go to Options > Preferences > General Tab > Import stereo as double mono (not sure about the exact option, I'm using a localised version)

Rosebud,

Is this under the CAPTURE preferences or the Vegas preferences?

Dave T2

Dave T2, this option is in the Vegas General Preferences, about 1/2 way down.
From the online Vegas help file:

Import stereo as dual mono

When this check box is selected, two-channel audio files will be opened as separate mono audio events on separate tracks:
The audio events are grouped, and tracks that are created by adding media will be panned hard left and hard right. You can select an event and choose Edit > Channels to choose which channel is used for that event.
You can use this feature when working with two-channel source media that contains two distinct audio channels, such as an interview in which channel 1 contains the interviewer's voice and channel 2 contains the subject's voice.
When the check box is cleared, two-channel audio files will be opened as a stereo pair on a single track:

Mike