possible to move acid project to vegas?

pjrey wrote on 2/21/2006, 9:43 AM

please say its possible!! i have a song i have been working on for some time within acid 5... is there anyway... to somehow move it into vegas 6 (keeping the samples on different tracks.. as in adic)??
i have searched the forum, and tried on my own to figure out a way, and im just not seeing it...

any ideas at all on how this could be done?

thank you!
pj

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busterkeaton wrote on 2/21/2006, 12:17 PM

I don't know if this is possible, but you can try to select all track and then copy and paste them in a Vegas project. You are able to do this between two Vegas projects. It seems to me you may lose Acid-specific info.

However, why are you trying to do this? What does it gain you over rendering out as a wav?

Acid 6 is due shortly and it does include multitrack mixing. Seems like what you want is going to be available then. You're just a bit ahead of the schedule.

gordyboy wrote on 2/21/2006, 1:53 PM

I just tried cutting and pasting from Acid Pro 5.0 to Vegas 5.0 - nothing doing.

I also tried importing an acd file - again doesn't work.

I couldn't even select an individual loop and get it to paste into Vegas.

So I would say this isn't going to work....

gb

pjrey wrote on 2/21/2006, 2:19 PM

ggrrrr!! thanks for trying!!
the reason i need this done is for a class of mine.. the teacher wont accept anything that is not done in vegas... i did this song in acid, and im very very pleased with it!!!!
oh well, i guess i will just try to re-create it in vegas.. maybe on the more difficult parts, just render those out septeraly....

if anyone has any last minute ideas... let me know!
thanks again
pj

Jimmy_W wrote on 2/21/2006, 2:41 PM

Render each track in Acid and then drop them into Vegas. Maybe this would be acceptible to your teacher.
Jimmy

Chienworks wrote on 2/21/2006, 5:25 PM

Slap your teacher silly. Any teacher that imposes such a restriction doesn't understand what he is teaching.

Vegas is a tool. ACID is a tool. What you are creating is music. Burn the finished song to a CD and hand that in. Ask your teacher to prove from that CD that it wasn't created in Vegas.

Back in my college days there was an English professor who required that all her students use a terrible program named "Bank Street Writer". This stupid program would crash every few minutes, didn't allow the students to choose their own formatting, and was just an absolute pain to get around in. I was doing helpdesk duty in the academic computing lab when one student was having a weird problem: the first paragraph was indenting 3 inches instead of just 1/2 inch. No matter what we tried we couldn't get it to work. The teacher told the student he would receive an F unless he got it fixed. I handed the student a copy of AppleWorks and let him use that word processor, and in a few minutes he had his paper retyped and printed perfectly. The teacher asked how he got the problem fixed. When he told the teacher he used a different word processor, he got an F. The student and i went to the dean and explained the situation. The next day the teacher informed the students that they may use any word processor they prefer.

Sorry for the long tale, but the point is that the teacher should have been concentrating on composition, not on the petty details of which tool the students used.

[r]Evolution wrote on 2/22/2006, 7:45 PM

You'll have to render each track from ACID...
... then load them in VEGAS.

I would do it without FX if you're hoping to use the power of VEGAS for your final mix. I would just be scared to export with FX from ACID in case you wanted to change something. If you render with FX... you'll be stuck with them.

Sony really should work on their integration.
The FCP Studio Suite will communicate with each app.
The Adobe Suite will communicate with each app.
But for some reason Sony seems to want their apps to be independent. This really hinders workflow and is one of the reasons people are staying away from the Sony Suite.

"What happens in VEGAS... stays in VEGAS."
C'mon Sony... let us travel.

Spot|DSE wrote on 2/22/2006, 8:04 PM

The FCP Studio Suite will communicate with each app.
Sorta. Round trips are not like how Vegas and Sound Forge work together, but it definitely would be cool if we could specify an offset in ACID from time in Vegas, open the ACID project as a sub-folder in Vegas at that point in time, and be able to ship a selected area from in point to out point back and forth between Vegas and ACID.

rmack350 wrote on 2/22/2006, 9:35 PM

I was envisioning this as the next step for nested projects-that you would be able to drop a veg on the timeline, or an Acid project.

What Adobe is using in Premiere Pro 2.0 sounds like OLE or something. It's a basic Windows technology, the same thing that let's you drop an Excel object into a Word document.

Rob Mack