New to audio question

dfred wrote on 5/23/2008, 8:31 PM

Today while editing a video, I realized one section of audio is extremely loud, while others are so soft you can hardly hear them. While trying to figure out how to adjust this, I discovered, according to the preferences, that I do not have a sound editing program selected.

I've never used a sound editor before. Can someone recommend one? Or, is there one preinstalled with Vegas 6 that I just have not yet discovered? Any feedback much appreciated.

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newhope wrote on 11/26/2008, 11:56 PM

Jon
When you are dealing with editing small segments it's best to zoom the view of the timeline in which can be done a number of ways.
Using the Up and Down arrows on your keyboard, clicking on the + and - buttons on the right bottom of the timeline or grabbing the edge of the slider at the bottom of the timeline.

The more zoomed in on your timeline, the easier it is to deal with just a few frames.

If the part you want to delete is at the beginning or end of a clip, or you have separated it by placing the cursor at the edit point and pressing 'S' on your keyboard, you can just drag the edge of the clip right from the start of the clip to edit off frames or left from the end to edit back. Using the delete key isn't necessary unless you are highlighting sections within a clip to delete or editing large sections off the head or tail of a clip.

As for colour and saturation choose the video FX tab and drag the Color Corrector onto you clip in the timeline and adjust as necessary. You can use the Saturation or Color Curves filters as alternates and/or adjuncts. You'll see the changes in realtime in the Preview monitor but they'll will need to be rendered of course in your final output.

If you are using the latest version of Vegas Pro 8.0c (update is available on this website for free) then you can directly import your files from the camera using the File/Import/AVCHD Camcorder function. (This ability was added to Vegas Pro 8 after its initial release which is why you need the update installed.)

That will import the AVCHD files directly off the camera and should give you individual files for every time you have hit the record button on the camera while recording. You don't need to run the software that came with the camera to do thisas this function replaces the Sony software supplied with the camera.

I can see that Google is converting the files you upload into Flash video so I guess the file size isn't as important other than the time it takes to upload.

Give the Import/AVCHD_Camcorder a try I think you'll find it a better way of working with your camera and Vegas.

New Hope Media

hatusage wrote on 2/7/2009, 8:33 PM

Try "insert" > Audio Envelope > Volume,.. then taking it from there. The bar which appears can increase/ decrease audio volume by clicking on the bar & moving the resulting small box up & down. Admittedly this will only work on a single track at a time, but if you have rendered the Vid already thats cool, just have to do a new render. Another method is to use the volume sliders to the left of the track, before the rendering.