Double Audio Tracks

Ven wrote on 3/20/2021, 7:39 PM

So I use Movie Studio 17 Platinum, and I've been having this problem for quite a while now. Every time I go to edit a new video file, it will put the video track, and then double the audio tracks, so you get two audio tracks for the exact same thing, and it creates this annoying echo. My solution is to delete the track itself, but when I'm making something like a montage or any sort of compilation, I always have to keep creating audio tracks that I'll delete two seconds later. Any idea why it duplicates the audio and any fixes?

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Musicvid wrote on 3/20/2021, 8:29 PM

Dunno. Try telling us about your file.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

EricLNZ wrote on 3/20/2021, 10:26 PM

Are you manually creating an additional audio track or is the clip you import doing it? Your description of your problem isn't clear to understand, at least not by me.

Ven wrote on 3/20/2021, 10:31 PM

Yeah I probably did a terrible job of explaining it. So when I import the clip and then I drag it onto the tracks, it'll show the video itself, and then two audio tracks that are the exact same.

EricLNZ wrote on 3/20/2021, 11:10 PM

Maybe the clip has two tracks? When you post the info as per @Musicvid's post we can have a look to see what your audio is.

Dexcon wrote on 3/21/2021, 6:49 AM

I am not sure if these functions are available in Movie Studio (they are in Vegas Pro). In Vegas Pro if you drag a video event via L mouse from Explorer to the timeline, both the video and audio tracks will be added to the timeline. Let's say that you have 4 video tracks and you drag from Explorer a video event to video track 2, it will import that media to video track 2 but a new audio track will be added immediately below video track 2. Nonetheless, I do not understand the double audio tracks with echo issue - that suggests that one audio track is slightly out of alignment with a copy of the same audio on another audio track. I've not experienced that - ever.

In Vegas Pro, there are 2 ways of getting around the added audio track when importing. 1/ drag the event to the Trimmer window and then R click to select video only - but make sure that the 'override' function is not activated and that the cursor is activated at the point on the video track where you want to place it; and 2/ R click the event in Explorer and then drag on to the timeline - a context window will then open and provide an option to import just the video, audio or both. Again, I do not know if these functions are available in Movie Studio.

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EricLNZ wrote on 3/21/2021, 3:31 PM

@Dexcon Yes the right click when adding for just video or audio is in VMS Platinum.

vkmast wrote on 3/21/2021, 3:35 PM

And you can drag from Explorer as well. Note the default tracks on VMSP.

Ven wrote on 3/23/2021, 3:15 PM
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I think this is the problem, it has two audio streams, but both are the exact same.
Also probably important information, but these are OBS video files. This a recurring problem with most of my videos, and I have to delete the track itself that the second audio stream is on.

Ven wrote on 3/28/2021, 2:08 PM

I am not sure if these functions are available in Movie Studio (they are in Vegas Pro). In Vegas Pro if you drag a video event via L mouse from Explorer to the timeline, both the video and audio tracks will be added to the timeline. Let's say that you have 4 video tracks and you drag from Explorer a video event to video track 2, it will import that media to video track 2 but a new audio track will be added immediately below video track 2. Nonetheless, I do not understand the double audio tracks with echo issue - that suggests that one audio track is slightly out of alignment with a copy of the same audio on another audio track. I've not experienced that - ever.

In Vegas Pro, there are 2 ways of getting around the added audio track when importing. 1/ drag the event to the Trimmer window and then R click to select video only - but make sure that the 'override' function is not activated and that the cursor is activated at the point on the video track where you want to place it; and 2/ R click the event in Explorer and then drag on to the timeline - a context window will then open and provide an option to import just the video, audio or both. Again, I do not know if these functions are available in Movie Studio.

I have tried both of these ways, yet it will still add the same audio to both the default audio track and the default music track. I'm unsure if this is something caused by Movie Studio or OBS, or if its even a problem with either to begin with. Could it perhaps have something to do with the two .sfk files it produces when I place it on the timeline?

EricLNZ wrote on 3/28/2021, 7:44 PM

The sfk files are the waveform display details and are created for every audio event. If two identical audio events are added then two identical sfk files will be produced.

As your Media Info shows the two tracks exist in the file you are importing it's nothing to do with Movie Studio. Your OBS is creating them. Have a look at your OBS settings. Search the forum and there's a thread somewhere on the best OBS settings for Vegas.

 

Ven wrote on 3/28/2021, 7:47 PM

The sfk files are the waveform display details and are created for every audio event. If two identical audio events are added then two identical sfk files will be produced.

As your Media Info shows the two tracks exist in the file you are importing it's nothing to do with Movie Studio. Your OBS is creating them. Have a look at your OBS settings. Search the forum and there's a thread somewhere on the best OBS settings for Vegas.

 

I’ll be sure to look in to that, thank you very much sir.