Can Vegas create a Multi Channel Wave (waveformatextensible) file?

Yoyodyne wrote on 5/27/2004, 9:47 AM

I have the need to create a 5.1 channel mix in what's called a Multi Channel Wave, the technical term is WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE. I can do it in Adobe Audition but was really hoping Vegas would crank one of these puppies out too.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks a bunch,
Yoyodyne

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/27/2004, 10:05 AM

Don't think Vegas can do it. You're only bet is 6 seperate channels of WAV files.

SonyEPM wrote on 5/27/2004, 10:24 AM

Vegas cannot do this.

Curious: You need to generate this type of file for (what)?

Yoyodyne wrote on 5/27/2004, 10:43 AM

Thanks for the quick replies guys - I need to create this for a program called Watchout. It's a multi screen, pc based, display technology and they are having good luck with multichannel wave files. I guess the advantage is they are not compressed like an ac3 file and they don't need an ac3 decoder (as I understand it Windows can handle them natively with the proper sound card).

I can make them in Adobe Audition, also Nuendo can do it (or so I've been told). I was kind of suprised to see Vegas unable to do it - Vegas can do anything! Oh well...

If your lookin' for feature requests I guess mine is Multi Channel Wave -
thanks a bunch
Yoyodyne

Orcatek wrote on 5/27/2004, 10:54 AM

Would an audio only WMV (version 9) work. Haven't verified, but I think Vegas could create that, and it supports 5.1.

Yoyodyne wrote on 5/27/2004, 11:14 AM

I was thinking about that as well - I will give it a try this week and hopefully report back with some results - thanks a bunch for all the info

Yoyodyne

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/27/2004, 1:04 PM

WMA does do 5.1 (i tried it a while back). One thing I noticed though: it seems the rear channels are quiter then in Vegas when played back. This could be a WMP thing.