Open Sound Forge (if that's what you use) and choose the option in
Preferences (general tab) to open command mode files in direct mode
always. If you're not using Sound Forge, I'm not sure what happens.
Then, right click on your event in Vegas, choose Open in Sound Editor
and perform whatever destructive edits you want on the file. Then
save. When you return to Vegas you will see the file updated.

Hope this helps. The key is that your sound editor has to be able to
open the file in Direct Mode - not create a temp file.

Juan Baigorria wrote:
>>Hi.
>>Do we always have to open a sound editor for destructive
>>editing? If I want to, say, reverse a short piece of a
>>region, is it like, opening sound editor, select, reverse,
>>save as, put it on the same folder with the original, back
>>to Vegas, explore and drag and drop the new file to a track?

Hi Charles, Thanks for replying.
I do use Sound Forge, and agree with you. But guess I have to be very
careful on remembering if I used the same file elsewhere.
What then would happen if I edit a previously copied region this way,
say, I have the same region repeated three times on a same track in
Vegas, one after the other, and just want to reverse one of them (I'm
sure Sound Forge will reverse the three of them, as they're actually
the same file); is there a way to quick this process with Sound
Forge, I mean just affect the portion you want to be affected by
automatically creating another file?

Charles de Montebello wrote:
>>Open Sound Forge (if that's what you use) and choose the option in
>>Preferences (general tab) to open command mode files in direct mode
>>always. If you're not using Sound Forge, I'm not sure what happens.
>>Then, right click on your event in Vegas, choose Open in Sound
Editor
>>and perform whatever destructive edits you want on the file. Then
>>save. When you return to Vegas you will see the file updated.
>>
>>Hope this helps. The key is that your sound editor has to be able
to
>>open the file in Direct Mode - not create a temp file.

You don't need to. Just select the portion you want to process and it
will leave the rest of the file alone (of course, watch out for time
compress and expand!! :)) Select in Vegas and it will select that
portion in SF. Even if you don't you can just select what you want in
SF.

Juan Baigorria wrote:
>>Hi Charles, Thanks for replying.
>>I do use Sound Forge, and agree with you. But guess I have to be
very
>>careful on remembering if I used the same file elsewhere.
>>What then would happen if I edit a previously copied region this
way,
>>say, I have the same region repeated three times on a same track in
>>Vegas, one after the other, and just want to reverse one of them
(I'm
>>sure Sound Forge will reverse the three of them, as they're
actually
>>the same file); is there a way to quick this process with Sound
>>Forge, I mean just affect the portion you want to be affected by
>>automatically creating another file?
>>
>>Charles de Montebello wrote:
>>>>Open Sound Forge (if that's what you use) and choose the option
in
>>>>Preferences (general tab) to open command mode files in direct
mode
>>>>always. If you're not using Sound Forge, I'm not sure what
happens.
>>>>Then, right click on your event in Vegas, choose Open in Sound
>>Editor
>>>>and perform whatever destructive edits you want on the file. Then
>>>>save. When you return to Vegas you will see the file updated.
>>>>
>>>>Hope this helps. The key is that your sound editor has to be able
>>to
>>>>open the file in Direct Mode - not create a temp file.
>>

Hi Charles, its raelly great to have this forum and its also great to
have guys like you in this forum(the hint you gave is really
practical)
thanks