Back to IzoRx . . Return as a TAKE?

Grazie wrote on 4/22/2008, 10:05 AM
OK, anybody been able to get iZoRX as the "Preferred Audio Editor" allowing them to have a correctly named AND improved audio WAV as: Take2 or Take3 or TakeN on their return back into Vegas?

My experience: I leave Vegas to go into iZoRX (right click open in preferred Audio Editor); have a NEW take dutifully assigned in iZoRx; try to save only to be told that that TAKE is . . . er . .. taken.

Well, yes, Vegas created a new take on LEAVING Vegas - it would appear iZoRX can't yet fathom this.

Soooo... what I am having to resort to is adding ANOTHER artificial n+1 take name and then having to import the n+1 manually. And no, before you ask, once I return to Vegas YES there IS a Take2 but it hasn't got the "new-improved" audio created back in iZoRX, which BTW IS named as Take2.

So, anybody having success before I copy this to my mates at iZo? Or even the "Madders of Madison"?

However, iZo does Rock!

Grazie


ps: I have to be doing something wrong here?


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Steven Myers wrote on 4/22/2008, 11:00 AM
Using Vegas 8.0b and RX 1.06, I get the expected (good) behavior.
Steven Myers wrote on 4/22/2008, 12:15 PM
Perhaps I should add that the way I did it for this experiment (and the way I always have done it -- Vegas, SONAR, whatever) is to do my edit, click the X at the top right corner, say yes to the message that asks me if I want to save...

EDIT:
This reminds me of a Vegas feature I would like to see. I would like to have right-click choices of which audio editor I would like to use now, similar to the Tools menu in SONAR. Sometimes I want RX, sometimes SoundForge, sometimes my ancient version of Cool Edit.
farss wrote on 4/22/2008, 4:59 PM
I think your problem starts when you leave Vegas. Is Vegas configured to close open files when it looses focus?
That would account for RX seeing the file as "taken" perhaps.

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 4/22/2008, 8:53 PM
"Is Vegas configured to close open files when it looses focus?"

How would I know?

Grazie
Grazie wrote on 4/22/2008, 9:01 PM
Excellent tididit - Thanks!

I did your "X" - meaning a USER forced EXIT - got the warning and went Save; new Take was added to Vegas AND the work I did in iZoRx was carried over - Excellent!

Now, who would have thought that?

Grazie
johnmeyer wrote on 4/22/2008, 9:18 PM
Now, who would have thought that?Bob.
Grazie wrote on 4/22/2008, 9:58 PM
I don't understand John? Please explain?
farss wrote on 4/22/2008, 10:12 PM
Options>Preferences>General
Checkbox: "Close media files when not the active application"

I'm assuming that Vegas creates the Take-xx file, adds it to the media pool and onto the T/L , then opens the app you've specified as the audio editor. If Vegas keeps the file open even though it's not the active application then the audio editor can't open it as Vegas has the file locked at the system level.

However I'm not 100% certain about this as SF can open the Take-xx file regardless of the setting in the checkbox. Maybe Vegas only locks the file when it gets focus back. Perhaps the setting I'm talking about would only matter of you were trying to do a direct Open In Audio Editor?

I'd check this out myself more clearly but my SF/Vegas system is doing a looong render.

Either way, the goal would be to get the process to work with RX just as it does with SF.

Bob.


Steven Myers wrote on 4/23/2008, 2:32 AM
Now, who would have thought that?

Old habit from Cakewalk Pro Audio days... somehow it turned out to be the quickest... cough... "foolproof" way to work. Still is.

I have been unable to reproduce your symptoms.

Vegas 8.0b does not allow me to invoke an audio editor unless the Preferences|General|Close media files... box is checked.