Puch on the fly audio?

NeilM wrote on 9/6/2002, 1:36 PM

Hi;

I'm trying to figure out how to record-on-the-fly in Vegas Video 3. I'm thinking about converting my SONAR based recording studio over to Vegas so I only have one main software app. I haven't found a way to record without setting a region. I'd like to be able to just hit a button during playback to pop in and out of record. Can this be done with vegas?

Thanks
Neil Meckelborg
www.meckelborgmusic.com

Comments

SonyDennis wrote on 9/9/2002, 12:28 PM

Neil:

You don't have to set a time selection or region to record. Just hit record.

I'm not aware of a mode to punch into and out of record while you're already in playback.

///d@

VOGuy wrote on 9/9/2002, 10:43 PM

This would be a very good feature to have! It's one of the things I really miss from the "analog" days.

Travis

http://www.announcing.biz

FadeToBlack wrote on 9/9/2002, 11:03 PM

VOGuy wrote on 9/10/2002, 4:13 PM

Thanks for your reply, GG.

I've used these options, and they are excellent enhancements to the recording process. However there are some things that I really miss from the "analog" days. Back then, you produced more by "feeling". Today, you produce by "thinking". When you mixed, you would listen, with your hand on the fader and you would move the fader based on how the mix "felt". Granted it would take a rehearsal first, but for audio, the mixes had a "life" to them I don't hear very often today.

Video, (actually, in my case, then, film) same story -- the process created a "life" to the edit which again is often missing today. I understand why Speilberg prefers doing his "offline" using old-fashioned film editing techniques (of course he can afford it). As a result, his films often have a "magical" feel you don't get elsewhere.

It's my belief that this loss of magic is not the result of anything inherent the "digital" process, (Except for the presence of 16-bit 44.1 audio - Don't get me started...) but simply that computer editing is still in its infancy - The designers of the systems are more concerned with providing "features" and technical performance to worry about the system's abilty to help the producer to create an "artistic" experience for the viewer.

Thinking ahead and pre-planning the "punch-in" point works, but for an artist, there's too much "left-brain" activity involved. Editing systems thirty years from now will take the artist's perspective into account, and we will see much more "art" from film/video (which will be the same medium, by then.)

Travis

SonyDennis wrote on 9/11/2002, 1:15 PM

ttravis:

I understand and appreciate where you're coming from.

Perhaps a solution would be to always be recording to a new track, then start playing when you feel the time is right. When you're done, trim to just the parts you want to keep and move them up to the track with the old performance, and they will "punch in" (over) the audio there (an event within an event punches into it, with optional crossfades on each end).

///d@

VOGuy wrote on 9/12/2002, 6:44 PM

Thanks, I've found myself doing something similar to what you describe, which helps.

My problem with ALL of the digital editing systems is that production involves too much thinking -- True, all art involves thinking, but anytime something pulls you away from the moment (right brain), into the realm of future planning, (a left brain activity) you are yanked from the creative atmosphere, into the "logical".

While the logical realm is great for dealing with technical details and solving analytical problems, when the blood supply is being directed to the left-brain hemisphere, it also keeps you from coming up with new and effective ways of communicating. This is why artists are always talking about being "in the moment".

The "graphical" environment, along with the Sparc research that lead to our current operating systems (Mac and PC, and eventually Linux/Unix) is a great help, but it still forces too much "Thinking", and not enough "Feeling" in the process -- unlike a paintbrush or musical instument which seem simple to operate, even though both are much more complicated to master than a computer.

I'm not complaining about anything about Vegas, it's a great product, but I do think that in a few years, we'll find that the interface for all of our computer based activites will be changed greatly - especially for those in the creative fields.

Thanks for letting me rant.

Travis.