Question regarding Vegas and Acid: tempo

FuTz wrote on 12/5/2005, 1:46 PM
I have different clips of dancers following different music tracks at different rythms.
I'd like to put all these dancers at 120bpm to follow a new track of music (a video clip).
I opened one of these clips in Acid, beatmapped it from 68 to 120bpm.
Question: I notice that if I open that clip in Vegas now, it's changed to 120bpm, which is right but is it as easy as that? Am I missing something that will eventually come back to my face after a week of editing?
I don't need the different music tracks on the original clips, I simply kept them to be able to beatmap the clips and introduce the new 120bpm rythm to all of these. I'll get rid of these sound tracks eventually.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 12/5/2005, 1:49 PM
In Options/Preferences/Audio, you'll see where you can control whether Vegas brings in the correct tempo or not.
In the Project Properties window of Vegas, you can set the tempo at which all audio containing metadata (like from ACID) will be imported.

yes, it's that easy.
FuTz wrote on 12/5/2005, 2:16 PM
And the image will follow too? I notice the audio clip is shorter now than the video clip on a same event...
Spot|DSE wrote on 12/5/2005, 2:16 PM
No, the image won't follow. It's not tied to metadata like the audio is.
FuTz wrote on 12/5/2005, 2:21 PM
Ok got something: in the audio clip, I have 177% indicated on t/l in the lower right corner.
I simply have to right-click video clip then set it to PlaybackRate 1,77 and voilà.
Just one more re-render for each clip and I'll have everything I need.
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FuTz wrote on 12/5/2005, 2:23 PM
Unless there's a simpler way of course ?
Thanks for helping
Chienworks wrote on 12/5/2005, 2:33 PM
Dunno if it's simpler or not, seems like it would be to me .... Ctrl-drag the right edge of the video clip to match the right edge of the audio event. No mucking about with properties or typing in numbers. It may not be as exact unless you have snapping enabled and you position the cursor on the end of the audio event first, but if you have that, then it should be frame accurate, which a 3-decimal-place properties value may not be.
gordyboy wrote on 12/5/2005, 4:34 PM
If you double-click the audio event so that it is selected as a loop region and then ctrl-drag the video, you will have an exact match - Vegas won't allow you to extend the video outside the audio event's duration.

gb
FuTz wrote on 12/5/2005, 8:10 PM
Thanks a lot guys. Both methods were good. A few steps but it works a1a !