Problems with Soundforge file import

Stevegeezer wrote on 9/10/2012, 5:06 AM
Hi there! I am a complete newbie at video editing and have only recently bought Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11. (Build 322) I have already posted this query to Sony on 12 Aug but to date (10 Sept) have not had a reply (just a confirmation of receiving it), so though I thought Iā€˜d see if anyone else has any suggestions.

Many of my AVI video files have very low volume. I just opened one in Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 with a view to editing it. The AVI video file plays ok but with very low sound in Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11. As it's impossible to sufficiently increase the sound within Vegas, I ungrouped the video and sound (by right clicking on the voice stream, selecting Group, then Remove From) to see if it could be increased better in Soundforge. So, I then right-clicked on the sound stream to 'open in audio editor'. This started Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 along with the sound file. I then successfully increased the volume using (Process, Volume). BUT - when I try to save/close Audio Studio to go back to Vegas Studio I hit problems...

It comes up with two errors. First it says 'Unable to save all metadata inside of the file. Would you like to save it in a separate file?' (DETAILS : "Unable to save the following metadata type(s) inside of the file: Unknown Chunks").

If I chose to try to save it in a separate file, it says 'An error occurred while saving one or more files. No compatible video codec was found.' All I want to do is get the increased volume soundfile back into Vegas Studio and rejoined to the original video ...

Anyone have any idea what the problem is and how I get around this? Surely if the AVI file plays ok within Vegas Studio, (albeit with the original low sound volume), Soundforge should be able to edit the sound Ok and let me import it back in?

Steve

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 9/10/2012, 7:14 AM
Not sure why you're having trouble raising the volume in Vegas. Between the track header volume control and the volume on the track you can raise it 18dB. If that's not enough you can right-mouse-button click on the audio event and choose Switches / Normalize, which brings the loudest peak in the event up to 0dB.

You can add compression or wave hammer to the video event to raise the volume by a substantial amount.

If these things are insufficient then the audio in your event is probably useless.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/10/2012, 10:49 AM
If the entire audio is low, I'm guessing that Kelly's recommendation to right-lick the audio event and select Switches | Normalize is going to boost the audio significantly. That's the first thing I'd try.

~jr