Camera audio good, load into Vegas 14 & it's way to low.

dave-c wrote on 11/6/2019, 9:01 AM

Shooting with 2 cameras, the A cam audio is at a fine level, but when loaded into Vegas you can barely see the waveform. The odd thing is the B cam audio is fine? I just can't figure this out. I almost think the video on A is dimmer as well, but not sure. Any ideas would help. Thanks

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EricLNZ wrote on 11/6/2019, 4:30 PM

Some info would help.

Start here https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

wjauch wrote on 11/6/2019, 4:53 PM

Shooting with 2 cameras, the A cam audio is at a fine level, but when loaded into Vegas you can barely see the waveform. The odd thing is the B cam audio is fine? I just can't figure this out. I almost think the video on A is dimmer as well, but not sure. Any ideas would help. Thanks

Are the audio meters indicating a good volume? You can adjust the waveform on the audio by IIRC shift+up simultaneously, this makes the waveform larger independent of the track height. Of course if the volume is also low then it would be a different issue

 

rraud wrote on 11/7/2019, 10:06 AM

If you swap the events in the tracks is the Cam A audio still low. I suspect the amplitude is low to begin with (a camera audio issue). A work-around would be to normalize the low level Cam A events. Right-click the event and select "Properties> Normalize> Recalculate" Note: this is peak normalize, so if there are loud spike(s), the amplitude will not increase much. In this case, I would create a new take in Sound Forge (right-click event> "Open copy in audio editor") and destructively control the peaks..