Brian,

It helps very much. You explained it all for me. Thanks for taking
the time to reply w/ your explanation. Have a great day!

Brad

Brian Franz wrote:
>>You can Solo the Event or Track that you need to dither, then goto
the
>> "Tools" menu and do a "Mix To New Track" Then Select Your format
>>under the Template drop down list that you want. This way Vegas
will
>>do the dithering and you don't need an outside plugin.
>>
>>The answer to Sampling Rate and Bit depth is "No there is no
direct
>>correlation between the two. I use to teach this in a course I
taught
>> in the past, it will be hard to explain this without a drawing
for
>>you to see, but I will give it a shot to explain it to you.
>>
>>Take a waveform and lets draw it on an X/Y Graph...imagine your
>>waveform being on a piece of graph paper. When we take a sample
of
>>something what we do is actually assign it a numerical value the
>>waveform is closest to on the Y axis at a particular Time (the
>>X-axis). In this example the X axis represents Time (which will
>>correspond with your sampling Frequency). The Y-axis corresponds
with
>> Amplitude/Volume(which will correspond with the number of bits.)
The
>> more bits there are on the Y axis the more accurate we can be to
>>assigning the waveform a number which is close to the waveform at
that
>> particular spot that a "Sample" is taken of the Waveform. Thus
the
>>more bits there are,the more numbers there are to assign to the
>>waveform making it have better resolution on the Y-axis. 2^24 to
be
>>the exact numbers there are on this Y axis if it's 24 bit and 2^16
>>numbers if it's 16 bit. The Sampling Frequency Is how many times
we
>>take a "Sample" or snapshot of that waveform in 1 Second. So the
>>higher the Sampling Frequency, the more numbers we assign to the
>>X-axis/Second (ie higher resolution, more divisions the X axis
gets
>>divided into in 1 second.) Well I know this might be hard to
picture
>> or understand from my explaination, but if I was able to draw on
this
>> forum, it would be pretty simple for you to understand, If anyone
at
>> SF wants to give a better explaination at it, please do so.
>>Basically in a nut shell, they have no direct relation to each
>>other, the X axis is independent of the Y-axis.
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>Brian Franz
>>
>>
>>brad hodgson wrote:
>>>>hello everyone
>>>>
>>>>i have a quick question , and it may be a dumb one, but any
>>>>help would be greatly appreciated. I am recording everyting
>>>>in 24 bit, 44.1 or 48 sample rate. i would love to be able
>>>>to edit a small section of one track in my sound editor,
>>>>which i use sound forge, but I can't, i know because it
>>>>doesnt support 24 bit. i tried it in wavelab as well, didnt
>>>>work, and i tried to open the wav in cool edit, and got a
>>>>full wave of "white noise" almost like raw data or
>>>>something. I tried to put a dither on the track fx, to see
>>>>if i could somehow use before i took it to sound forge, but
>>>>it didnt work. is ther a way i can dither a track before
>>>>taking it to sound forge or another wav editor? or is there
>>>>another trick to use? I think ive heard Vehgas audio can
>>>>edit direct x on each track, but as of now im using vegas
>>>>pro. Also, another possible dumb question, but if i record
>>>>at 48 or 96 sample rate, when i dither my bits down, will
>>>>that dither the sample rate down as well? or does that
>>>>cause a problem? is there an external dithering program i
>>>>should use first? any help would be much obliged. thanks!
>>>>
>>>>brad hodgson