Rendering vs mix down question

Musiclover wrote on 5/1/2002, 7:21 PM
Hello,
I have some basic questions on rendering vs mixing down in Vegas 2.0. I have tried to figure out from the manual, but it is very confusing and they do not quite come out and explain with some good examples.

Let us say I have recorded 4 tracks, each in mono, L or R. I assign tracks 1,2,3 to Bus A and track 4 to Bus B and add some Fx ( I am yet to learn how to do the last step). Let us say that next I want to mix down the 4 tracks to single stereo track and create .wav file for the purpose of taking it to a CD burning software.

1. When I first open the .veg file of my recording, I see 4 tracks opening up. And when hit play, I see the 2 Buses A & B alive in the Mixer. So that tells me I do not have a single track stereo .wav file at this point. Right?
2. I tried ‘render as’, and it created another .wav file for me. When I played that back, I see it opening only 1 Bus in the mixer. Now is this the final mix down I am looking for? How do I know all my settings of the 4 tracks(pan, effects etc) are there in this rendered file?
3. Is rendering another word for mix down in Vegas? The way I knew mix down was actually playing back multiple tracks and recording to a single mixed track while listening to ANY ONE or MORE them.
4. Is there a different way to do mix down in Vegas?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

Mike M. wrote on 5/2/2002, 11:23 PM
In a way rendering could be considered as a mixdown. If you have 4 mono tracks, each the way you want it (volume, pan, EQ.....etc) and render to a mp3 or wav file---you've essentially mixed down. You could do the same thing without rendering by playing back live to an external source (tape).
Musiclover wrote on 5/3/2002, 3:39 PM
Thanks for the reply.
If rendering is same as mix down, is there any way to know if all the settings I had on each track are preserved? In true mix down, I can be listening to one or more track during mix down and actually see or hear what is being mixed.