processing audio of AVI

Rich Reilly wrote on 8/6/2007, 9:36 AM
I have some avi audio/video combined DV clips and would like to process the audio to a new file without duplicating the video. In our old sytem, video and audio were captured as separate files and we woudl keep th eoriginal audio file but process to a new file with the same name as original. Then the editor would find the files and view them as connected on the timeline.
is there an approach with Vegas that woudl allow the same? i.e. retain backup of orginal audio but not create a duplicate of the video.
Maybe I need to capture the files as separate audio and video?

Comments

Former user wrote on 8/6/2007, 9:59 AM
Use RENDER AS and select the audio format you want to render to, normally Windows WAV which is uncompressed.

But I don't know why you would need this. As long as you don't erase or replace the original DV file, the audio on it will remain untouched.

Dave T2
rs170a wrote on 8/6/2007, 10:01 AM
Vegas can do a lot of audio processing on it's own.
It also has the option of opening the audio clip in Sound Forge, either directly or as a copy.
In both of these ways, you work on the audio independent of the video and, when saving it, can give it a different name so that the original is left untouched.
There are a lot of other audio apps that will open an AVI file but leave the video alone. The audio is there only as a reference if you need it.

Mike
Rich Reilly wrote on 8/6/2007, 10:10 AM
I have an app that works fine on .wav files but bombs when I drop an .avi onto it. There is no other interface..just drag an audio fil eto it. I suppose I could copy the audio from the .avi into a new .wav audio only file. and process that. but then the issue is how to reconnect the processed file to the video.
Former user wrote on 8/6/2007, 10:11 AM
You reconnect the audio by putting the video and the new wav file on the Vegas timeline. As long as you have not changed the length of the WAV file, it will line up fine.

Dave T2
rs170a wrote on 8/6/2007, 10:29 AM
To group (i.e. lock) the video and new audio together, click the video event, shift-click the audio event and click the G (Group) key.

Mike
Rich Reilly wrote on 8/6/2007, 10:55 AM
I understand grouping..just hoping there's a way to do this at the file level so there aren't multiple timeline tracks of audio for each clip.