Can you combine multi-channel projects?

fwtep wrote on 5/2/2003, 8:29 PM

I have a short project with several audio tracks, some of which have animated surround placements and I want to take that project and put into another project. With normal stereo I can just render the short project out as a DV AVI and load that AVI into my other project, but what can I do with 5.1? IS there something I can do?

Naturally I'd rather not have to render each channel out as a separate wave file but I suspect that's what I'll have to do. Vegas doesn't seem to be able to load *.ac3 files. It would be great to have just one audio track (like with stereo) where all the channels are present.

Thanks to anyone for any help on this.

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SonyDennis wrote on 5/2/2003, 11:44 PM

Sorry, you'll need to render to multiple WAV files (a single command) and then bring those into 5 or 6 tracks, and set their pan positions so they go to the right channels.
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fwtep wrote on 5/3/2003, 4:21 AM

>>Sorry, you'll need to render to multiple WAV files (a single command) and then bring those into 5 or 6 tracks, and set their pan positions so they go to the right channels.<<

Ugh, any chance of that changing in a near-future version? I'd really like to be able to work with pieces of this project (a feature) rather than the whole damn thing. It would be hundreds of tracks!

Also, having to synch up all of the tracks for each clip is extremely impractical. If I have 100 scenes that's at least 500 tracks to deal with!

mikkie wrote on 5/3/2003, 8:21 AM

For the future... 't would be nice to be able to open uncompressed multichannel audio as one file. There's the Microsoft wave extensible format, or they have a utility out to convert the individual channel wav files to one multichannel avi. The latter might be the better way to go as you don't have the 4 gig wav limit.

Might be nice to render the 6 audio channels to an audio only avi that could then be handled as a file container.

pretty pullleeeeeease.....