Override File Syncing

Hunter-B wrote on 5/11/2022, 11:37 AM

I am currently trying to edit a gaming video on Vegas Pro 19 but everything in my project is "out of sync" and it's causing an insane amount of lag.

With how I have my recording set up I get 5 tracks when I import the file into Vegas Pro: 2 video 3 audio (One video track is my facecam and the other is my game capture) but in the recording my camera is a bit delayed because I have a cheap adapter for it so I move it by about 9 frames to match with everything else. Unfortunately doing so causes all tracks to have the red + or -9 thing (shown in the link below) on it so after cutting it up into all my small clips I need I get an intolerable amount of lag that makes it impossible to edit.

Basically I was wondering if there was any way to override the clips' syncing after I move my one video file so that it no longer says -9

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jetdv wrote on 5/11/2022, 12:08 PM

You could render it out to a new file that's in sync and then edit using that new file...

Hunter-B wrote on 5/11/2022, 12:24 PM

You could render it out to a new file that's in sync and then edit using that new file...

That is a good idea, unfortunately if I'm not mistaken that would merge my 3 audio tracks into one and I do need the separated tracks. Thank you tho!

Btw I'm not sure if you know this but if you make a save file then drag the save file into vegas pro it'll merge everything into a 2 track file; pretty much doing the same thing without having to wait and lose quality from rendering :)

jetdv wrote on 5/11/2022, 12:57 PM

You could render each audio track to a separate WAV file and then just replace each audio track with the new WAV file. Group them together as desired, and you won't get any offset numbers. I really doubt that shifting the audio 9 frames is causing any slowdowns, though.

In your case, I'd probably take one video and one audio and render that out to a format that VEGAS can easily edit. Then take the second video and another audio and render that out to a format that VEGAS can easily edit. Now take your 3rd audio file and render that to WAV (if your audio files are not already WAV files).

Then you can add the two video/audio files and the single WAV file to the timeline for further editing.

If you're experiencing "lagging", it's probably from the video format, not the audio format or the audio offset.

Hunter-B wrote on 5/11/2022, 1:04 PM

You could render each audio track to a separate WAV file and then just replace each audio track with the new WAV file. Group them together as desired, and you won't get any offset numbers. I really doubt that shifting the audio 9 frames is causing any slowdowns, though.

Yea I actually could do that, I was just hoping there was a function in vegas to let me reset the sync function but things don't usually go the easy way lol.

And I'm not just shifting the audio track (that's what I'm doing now cuz I was stupid) but I was shifting one of the video tracks which in turn caused vegas pro to think everything is all out of sync (as you saw in the image) which is fine. But I believe the issue came after I chopped the video up into like 30+ clips and vegas thought the 4 tracks for every single clip was out of sync which was apparently a lot for my 16gb of ram

jetdv wrote on 5/11/2022, 1:24 PM

There's no image in your post. There is a link to another website. You can upload images and videos directly to your post (most people don't like leaving this site to look at your image since you can put it directly in your post) so I haven't seen any image.

I still doubt the lagging is due to your audio being offset. I do bet it's related to your video format and is being exasperated as you cut it up into more events. What is the video format? Just rendering the video out to an easier to edit format may help you greatly.

Hunter-B wrote on 5/11/2022, 1:32 PM

Lol my b, there's an image now

I do bet it's related to your video format and is being exasperated as you cut it up into more events. What is the video format? Just rendering the video out to an easier to edit format may help you greatly.

I never considered that to be an issue because this is the first time this has happened, the only difference with this project is the addition of another audio file.

The file was recorded with OBS and output as an mp4 file with 3 audio tracks (one for my game, one for my microphone and one to record my discord call). Is there a better file format to record in? If not what do you suggest me render the video out to?

jetdv wrote on 5/11/2022, 1:37 PM

MP4 is a "container" that can contain different formats. It's not the format of the video itself. I know there are posts on this forum about the best format to record from OBS. I also know that "constant bit rate" works better than "variable bit rate" files.

Hunter-B wrote on 5/11/2022, 1:46 PM

I know there are posts on this forum about the best format to record from OBS.

That is something I should've looked at awhile ago, but I already had everything setup pretty close to this FAQ. But like I said this is probably the 6th project I've recorded and edited the way I have been and it all the sudden happened with this one when I tried to resync the facecam track