How to export file with smpte timecode for ...

will-3 wrote on 4/3/2009, 7:58 AM

Still running Vegas 5

Never done smpte before.

How do you export an audio file with smpte timecode so it can be edited on other software... such as Pro Tools or whatever?

Can you export multi-tracks?

Do each have to have an associated smpte timecode ?

Is smpte timecode a seperate track or is it encoded into the individual audio track?

Thanks for any help.

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rraud wrote on 4/3/2009, 9:30 AM

Vegas cannot export a file with TC...Period.. not in Vegas-5, not in Vegas Pro-8. Many have requested Broadcast Wave File (BWF) export but that falls on deaf ears. (pun intended) SCS apparently deems professional features as unnecessary in a "pro" application. You could convert the "session" to an AAF, but that was implemented half-ass and may not work on another application. The only thing I found that works is OMF, but that requires an expensive EDL converter app.

Apparently Reaper (freeware) will have these features soon. If it does not already.

You can try Sound Devices "Wave Agent" , with a user settable BWF TC stamp, but you need a BWF file to start with. Catch 22. The only work around is to copy your audio to a BWF, then re-set the TC.

To run TC externally, however you would need a MIDI to SMPTE converter and lay back the audio w/TC to another TC recoding device.