Help...I screwed up!

Mark wrote on 7/9/2004, 10:19 PM
I have been editing a feature for almost a year now, I am almost done and today I went in and opened the file and I am missing my music track. I have 90% of it on a file I saved last week. Is there anyway to copy that track from the other file and insert it back in to the file I'm working with now? If anyone can tell me away I would really appreciate it. Otherwise, I'm not sure what to do. I found a way to get the footage back by pasting, but can't do anything about the 90 minutes of volume envelopes or the surround keys. I also have some fx on this track.

Thanks

Mark Hanson

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busterkeaton wrote on 7/9/2004, 10:28 PM
Open your old project and select your audio track and hit the W key to return to the very beginning of your project. Right click and choose "Select Events to End."

Then go to your new project, select your audio track, hit W again. Then choose Edit menu and select "Paste."

I just did this with several clips and a volume envelope and it brought the clips and the envelope in to the project fine.

My track effects, like EQ were not brought over, so you will have to adjust those.

I don't know if there is an easy way to recreate the track without losing the effects
Mark wrote on 7/10/2004, 10:57 AM
Does anyone know if you can merge a track from another file?

thanks

Mark Hanson
kentwolf wrote on 7/10/2004, 11:24 AM
>>Does anyone know if you can merge a track from another file?
>>"Merge"

I do not believe you can. You can simply take events from one project to another.
Mark wrote on 7/10/2004, 11:45 AM
will that keep the volume envelope intact?

thanks

Mark Hanson
artone wrote on 7/10/2004, 11:50 AM
Hi,
How about adding the audio as take? just right click the media from explorer and drop it over the event and select 'add as take'

HTH
vicmilt wrote on 7/10/2004, 12:34 PM
If you have an older version of the show with a good music mix, why not lay off the track separately, with all the envelopes effecting it, and then import the mixed track into your latest project?
At that point you could still do final tweaks on the premixed tracks.
Mark wrote on 7/10/2004, 12:57 PM
I thought about that, rendering the track would preserve the volume fades, but unless I brought it in as an AC3 file, I'd lose my key frames for the surround. I don't know if bringing in an AC3 file would work. Does any body know?

Thanks

Mark Hanson
GaryKleiner wrote on 7/10/2004, 3:06 PM
Sorry, Vegas will not accept AC3 files on the timeline.

Gary