Don't miss the buss.

farss wrote on 10/5/2009, 5:28 AM

Here was me grappling with checking my audio sync between two cameras and 4 channels from my Edirol R-4. Mute this, solo that, oops I just soloed a video track. What an unpleasant experience. Then the lightbulb went on. Route every source / group to a buss. Problem solved. One mute/solo button for R-4, one for camera A, one for camera B.
Don't have to follow my scheme, make up whatever suits you. Some of mine now get a bit more complex as I like to put compression on a buss so I then route that to another buss which handles the mix from all the R-4 channels.
One tip you should follow, label everything.

One area where Vegas still beats the pants off every other NLE is audio.

Bob.

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TeetimeNC wrote on 10/5/2009, 5:42 AM

Bob, this sounds intriguing but I'm not quite following the purpose of routing to a buss. Looking to learn here. Why route each recording device to a buss rather than put each on its own audio track?

I suspect I have missed the buss since I never expoit this feature.

Jerry

farss wrote on 10/5/2009, 5:58 AM

Not recording device, the tracks recorded by them.

Why, well so it's easier to identify them and mute /solo them and control the level.

You still have tracks as per normal, one for each video stream and one for each stereo or mono stream. See the problemo, lots of tracks and there's video and audio. Hard to see what's what.

So what to do is in the mixer panel add more busses. Then go back to the track header and click the square icon with a dot in the middle. The lets you route the track to a buss.
The same icon is in each buss so you can route busses to busses.

Of course where you'd really use this is if you had say a 24 track recording of session. Maybe 6 tracks from the drum mics. You route all those to a buss called Drums. You want to turn the drums down, piece of cake now. Also each buss can be revealed just like a track and can have its own volume envelope. Vegas is a full blown audio multitracker. The video bit, well, just an after thought really :)

So yes indeed, if you've never explored the audio side of Vegas you've missed the main act.

Bob.

Chienworks wrote on 10/5/2009, 10:12 AM

Basically the same advantage as using Groups on a conventional mixer.