MP3 Audio problem remains?

GFFmatt wrote on 7/24/2009, 2:21 PM
So apparently, even with the 9a update, there's still a problem with Vegas Pro 9 maintaing projects with MP3 files?

As I open my latest project which currently has two mp3s in it, it tells me it can't find them, error, yada yada. Then opens with those mp3s offline and I cannot import an mp3 at all.

The previous "work around" was to either reinstall Vegas or convert mp3 to WAV and reinsert.

Why in the world can't I use an mp3 file? Are they not fairly common? What gives?

Anyone find a permanent fix for this yet? Can't believe it wasn't addressed in the huge patch.

Comments

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 7/24/2009, 2:59 PM
Vegas does not currently have an mp3 problem....what you need to understand is that there are several flavors of mp3's and the ones you are trying to use just does not
sit well with Vegas.....Where do you source these mp3 files?
[r]Evolution wrote on 7/24/2009, 3:15 PM
I've noticed that many NLE's need their Media to be 'Conformed' to match the project settings.

Many times I have used Vegas 'Batch Rendering' to Conform mp3's to the normal 48K of DV Audio when I need to other NLE's that don't play so well with mixed media.

I used to have a soundcard that would garble any Audio played after a Windows Sound would play.

Maybe your soundcard is trippin out on the various Mixed Media?
GFFmatt wrote on 7/24/2009, 3:25 PM
If by "source" you mean where are they kept (sorry if I misunderstand) then the answer is I keep them on one of my 3 internal hard drives.

These are the same MP3s I've used in 2 other NLEs for the last 4-5 years and I've never had a problem. So to me, it looks a lot like Vegas has the problem. But I'm sure there's just a certain step here I'm not getting.

I sure hope my soundcard isn't having a problem with it---it's an X-Fi titanium Fatal1ty pro on an i7 with 12GB of DDR3 RAM. Everything runs sweet on this machine and it just seems to be this hang up that's given me a headache. WAVs work fine, but I'd hate to take an extra step to convert everything I want to use (and eat up more space)...so what should I do to get MP3s to work?

Thanks for the help!
blink3times wrote on 7/24/2009, 4:19 PM
I'm not seeing any mp3 problems at all (I have the x-fi elite pro). I've placed quite a few mp3's on the line along with some video, saved, closed, and re-opened (several times) without issues at all.... both in Vegas 32 and 64.
GFFmatt wrote on 7/24/2009, 4:23 PM
And I have too...I've probably opened and closed this file, shut down and restarte the PC 6-10 times over the last few days and it opened like a charm. I thought the patch might have addressed the situation.

But today it did it. ? Don't know why it would be fine for a time and then flake out.
GFFmatt wrote on 7/27/2009, 9:06 AM
Mr. Rhoden, are you able to eloborate?

GFFmatt wrote on 7/27/2009, 7:48 PM
bump for clarity!
tumbleweed7 wrote on 7/27/2009, 8:07 PM

I think what steve means is that, not all mp3's are created equal...

like what program was used to create the mp3's for instance... or what paramaters are used in the files...
R0cky wrote on 7/28/2009, 5:21 AM
No problem with mp3s in any version of Vegas.

The issue with sounds getting garbled after a Windows sound plays is that windows sounds are frequently ~11 khz or ~22 khz sample rate. Windows changes the sample rate on your sound card when it plays the sound.

Hopefully your sound card allows you to lock the sample rate (my echo Layla 3G does). If not, turn off windows sounds.