I'd just like to clarify that this is *NOT* the standard question people ask on the forums where they're stretching or squeezing an event on the timeline in order to make it play faster or slower and they would like to preserve pitch (solved by messing with the event properties among other solutions). My situation is quite different.
I'm looking to speed up my workflow. I work mostly with long projects that require relatively little editing, such that most of my time is spent watching back through hours and hours of footage, making only minor edits here or there.
A few years ago I realized I could save a lot of time and get through my job faster by increasing the playback rate to 1.33x. (Pressing L, or manually adjusting the orange arrow in the bottom left of the timeline window). Note that this doesn't actually affect any events or media in the project: It simply allows me as an editor to review the footage faster.
Recently, the quantity and length of my projects coming in has increased by a substantial amount, so I'm searching again for speed-ups to handle the challenge. Looking back at this old method I'm using, I've identified that I could quite comfortably edit at an even higher playback rate (1.66, 2.0) and save even more time!
But there is a problem. I still need to be able to understand the spoken word audio in my projects while fast forwarding through them in editing. Unfortunately, as Vegas increases it's playback speed it also makes the audio sound more and more high pitched to the point where it becomes unintelligible.
My work in some other DAWs has made it quite obvious you *can* increase audio playback speed without also forcing it to become high-pitched, but is there any way to do the same (or to simulate the same!) in Sony Vegas while scrubbing in this manner? I'm aware that the internal preferences are quite substantive, could there be something in there that alters the way playback rate functions? An addon? A basic method I'm missing? Some workaround using temporary track FX?
Hopefully this makes sense! Curious to what people have to suggest and to learn more about this awesome software. Cheers!
tld:dr
I want to be able to press "L" lots of times to edit projects in fast forward, but with no chipmunk voices making it impossible to understand what is being said.
I'm looking to speed up my workflow. I work mostly with long projects that require relatively little editing, such that most of my time is spent watching back through hours and hours of footage, making only minor edits here or there.
A few years ago I realized I could save a lot of time and get through my job faster by increasing the playback rate to 1.33x. (Pressing L, or manually adjusting the orange arrow in the bottom left of the timeline window). Note that this doesn't actually affect any events or media in the project: It simply allows me as an editor to review the footage faster.
Recently, the quantity and length of my projects coming in has increased by a substantial amount, so I'm searching again for speed-ups to handle the challenge. Looking back at this old method I'm using, I've identified that I could quite comfortably edit at an even higher playback rate (1.66, 2.0) and save even more time!
But there is a problem. I still need to be able to understand the spoken word audio in my projects while fast forwarding through them in editing. Unfortunately, as Vegas increases it's playback speed it also makes the audio sound more and more high pitched to the point where it becomes unintelligible.
My work in some other DAWs has made it quite obvious you *can* increase audio playback speed without also forcing it to become high-pitched, but is there any way to do the same (or to simulate the same!) in Sony Vegas while scrubbing in this manner? I'm aware that the internal preferences are quite substantive, could there be something in there that alters the way playback rate functions? An addon? A basic method I'm missing? Some workaround using temporary track FX?
Hopefully this makes sense! Curious to what people have to suggest and to learn more about this awesome software. Cheers!
tld:dr
I want to be able to press "L" lots of times to edit projects in fast forward, but with no chipmunk voices making it impossible to understand what is being said.