crossfades disappearing - sometimes

Doug_Marshall wrote on 6/2/2004, 8:52 PM
Vegas 5: Does anybody have this problem: You carefully edit a live recording only to discover when you finish that a bunch of your slaved-over crossfade edits have disappeared and they play back with a loud TICK!

I was about ready to jump out the window (fortunately my lab is windowless) but I tried nudging the alignment of one of the problem regions and PRESTO, the crossfades magically reappeared! I then hit ctrl-z to restore the correct alignment and all was well after doing this for each offending region.

This sounds like a bug. It has happened to me in several versions of Vegas now (at least since v. 3). Does anybody have a solution?

Doug Marshall

Comments

PipelineAudio wrote on 6/2/2004, 9:14 PM
Are ripple edits on? Are any of the offending tracks grouped?
Doug_Marshall wrote on 6/3/2004, 2:50 AM
As far as I can tell, ripple edits are not on - I'm not even sure what those are! However, I do have events grouped within a song, including across multiple tracks - I was afraid of losing alignment as I work.
Doug_Marshall wrote on 6/5/2004, 2:30 PM
This problem continues to dog me. I thought I was done mastering a project and went and burned the CD. Listening through it I heard one tick in the middle. Sure enough, it was another crossfade that had inexpicably disappeared - it was still lined up as far as timing goes but the overlap was gone. Again, nudging things followed by ctrl-z restored the crossfade. Weird!
drbam wrote on 6/5/2004, 9:00 PM
I've done a huge amount of crossfade edits in Vegas 3 and have not experienced what you describe. I've done less editing in Vegas 4 but haven't experienced it there either.

drbam
Doug_Marshall wrote on 6/7/2004, 2:58 PM
OK, perhaps there is something wrong with my approach. What's the best way to protect against inadvertently moving a region and thus messing up an edit? I've been grouping things when I complete a section, but I still occasionally find the problems I described when I go back to listen to my work.

Doug
drbam wrote on 6/7/2004, 3:22 PM
When working with envelopes, use the envelope tool. I also tend to watch my work very carefully and check and double check my edits almost compulsively. In this way I tend to catch any problems or inadvertant moves before I'm too far along. If you've got a heavily edited file, render it before moving to another stage or file. Obviously you want to save your edited originals until you've mastered and archived the project.

HTH,

drbam