Audio Waveform Size

newhope wrote on 12/6/2006, 6:13 AM

Can anyone suggest some help on this?

I've just sound edited and premixed a short feature film and have imported the premixed tracks as BWF files into Vegas for a 5.1 mix.
The problem is that because the levels of some of the tracks are intentionally mixed low, clocks ticking, traffic heard from inside a room etc I can't see the waveforms on the Vegas tracks.

If I expand the track size they are there but what I'd like to do is increase the wave display size, as you can in ProTools, without exanding the tracks as I have 27 of them without the music.

Is there any way of doing this, without altering the sound levels of course, in Vegas?

Regards

New Hope Media

Comments

BradlyMusic wrote on 12/6/2006, 8:29 AM

You could right click and use the Normalize switch, but that will effect the audio levels.

What you want is to hold the SHIFT button and then press the arrow UP/DWN buttons. This will increase the height of the waveform display without changing the audio levels.

newhope wrote on 12/6/2006, 2:16 PM

Thanks for the reply.

Normalising is definitely not what I'd want to do after premixing.
The SHIFT Up/Down arrows was the function I was looking for and couldn't find in the Help Menus.

Regards
Steve