Have video but no dialog

Mary Kay wrote on 7/16/2007, 10:30 AM
This is my first try at Vegas 6.0 - not very computer savvy - old - but willing to try this. I downloaded a video off my digital movie camera, got it into Vegas, on the track that says "video", and can play it and preview in the window in the bottom left of screen. But none of the dialog plays. I have clicked and unclicked "mute" button - nothing. What am I doing wrong. Thanks in advance. MK

Comments

rustier wrote on 7/16/2007, 11:37 AM
A little clarification may be helpful:

what type of camera?
when you say download - is this off a hard drive? A mini dvd? So you did not "capture" it?

my first guess is that the sound file (which apparently is separate) is still on your camera- have you explored this? if so simply download the sound file and drop it onto the timeline the same way (usually below the video file).

You will always see a video "line" and an "audio" line (white bar with squiggly lines representing the sound waves - often seen as track 5 labeled voice) on your timeline when you have both. Muting or unmuting is really an on off "switch" for the track turning both sound or video on or off.

have fun with it
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/16/2007, 2:35 PM
Have you captured the video with the Vegas capture programme? Exactly the same happened to me when I tried Vegas for the first time. Eager as I was, I used a video clip that was already on my pc, one I had captured with Windows Movie Maker. The result was no sound in Vegas.

So: start Vegas, go to media explorer and click on the 'capture' icon, and follow the instructions and capture your video again. Make sure you select your camera under the 'video' menu!

Good luck with Vegas!
Mary Kay wrote on 7/16/2007, 6:46 PM
Rustier, I am sorry I was not more specific and will try to give more details next time. Yes, I was trying to capture from a Canon Elura 90. I tried the advice of Ivan123 and captured it in Vegas and YIPPEE SKIPPEE it worked. Since I am learning and playing with this I only wanted about 5 - 10 min of film captured, but I do not see a "stop Capture" button. Is there a way to stop capturing without going to "exit". Any help and advice is truly appreciated. Thanks again to both of you
Chienworks wrote on 7/16/2007, 6:56 PM
The same button that you click to start capturing changes function while the capture process is happening. It becomes the stop button. So just click the same button again to stop.
pwatc wrote on 7/17/2007, 8:32 PM
I am having the same issue. I go to capture, select DV, and it opens the Sony Capture program. It captures the video directly from my camera, including sound, but when I drag the video in to the Movie Studio it is just static.

I have Vegas Platinum Edition 2006.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/17/2007, 9:14 PM
You must drag it from the Vegas explorer (bottom left, second window) to a video track.
1) Does your 'raw' video have sound? (can you play it in windows media player eg)?
2) What format is your video file?

Other things to consider:
If you have been tweaking settings and preferences of Vegas, it may be interesting to go back to 'factory settings' by holding Shift+CTRL while starting up Vegas.

In my case, the audio was 'garbled' in preview. To solve this, I went to Options, Preferences, Audio Device tab, and increased the 'play back buffering'.
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/17/2007, 9:20 PM
One more thing: In Vegas, go to explorer (bottom left), find a videofile, and left-click once on it. In the statusbar beneath, you'll see a description of the file, listing video and audio information.