Dropping Acid .wav files onto timeline decreases their length (?!)

prairiedogpics wrote on 6/17/2004, 1:57 PM
This is weird:
I create a .wav audio file using Acid Music 3 and drop the .wav render on to the Vegas 5 timeline. Immediately, a little box in the corner of the audio event shows 85.7% or some other random (lower than 100) percentage. The audio file plays slower in Vegas than the actual wav file sounds (85.7% of original?). I look at the properties of the Acid rendered wav and it shows the original time is longer (or shorter, I can't remember...but different anyway) from the original length of the wav file. In short, simply by dropping this Acid rendered wav file on the Vegas timeline (in a blank audio track with NO FX or anything), Vegas changes it's length and therefore tempo.

Anybody reproduce this? This is in a huge project. I guess I should try it in a new blank project. Nevertheless....

Dan

Comments

farss wrote on 6/17/2004, 2:04 PM
Vegas now has beat mapping or soemthing like that. Right clcik the wav on the T/L and disable pitch / time shifting. Alternatively change the Vegas project BPM to match the settings in Acid.
Sorry not too hot on this but hopefully that'll give you enough to nut it out.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/17/2004, 2:13 PM
This is happening because your Vegas project tempo does not match the tempo in the ACID file you dropped on it so Vegas is correcting it to play at the project tempo (which will shorten or lengthen it accordingly). You can make it play at the right tempo in two ways. One is to change the Vegas project tempo to match the ACID file using File > Properties > Ruler and change the project tempo. The other way is to modify the properties of the audio event to ignore ACID properties.

~jr
SonyEPM wrote on 6/17/2004, 2:59 PM
Our forthcoming 5.0b update will give you the option to ignore the ACID data-
ken c wrote on 6/17/2004, 3:01 PM
dropping acid in general isn't recommended, as it causes visual distortions.


(that's a joke)


ken
prairiedogpics wrote on 6/17/2004, 4:35 PM
Okay, cool. At least I know it 's not a bug...

The way I used the file was to simply right-click on it, choose properties, and make original and new time (length) identical. That worked..

BTW: I thought my subject title was pretty clever, too... ;)

Dan