Sound not coming through

BobF wrote on 10/10/2008, 4:25 PM
Did a search and didn't find what I was looking for.

New Vegas user. Using Studio Platinum 9.

I've got a piece of video that I've captured from my camera. Stupidly I didn't have the microphone turned on so there was no sound recorded with the video. I've copied another piece of sound from another video and dropped it into the clip with no sound. The video is sitting in Video Overlay (Track 3), I've also tried it in Video (Track 2). The audio track that accompanies the video is sitting in the Front (Track 4) slot. The audio from another clip that I dropped in is sitting in Center (Track 5).

When I preview the video in Vegas I get the sound from the dropped in audio clip coming through. When I save or render the clip; however, and play it in Windows Media Player, the sound is gone. I've rendered the clip as an AVI file.

I've looked in the Help documents that come with Vegas and couldn't find a solution.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to delete the audio track that is coupled to the video track and slot the dropped in audio in its place but I can't see how that can be done either. Failing that, what am I missing that the dropped in audio isn't coming through on the rendered clip?

Thanks

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 10/10/2008, 4:33 PM
>Windows Media Player, the sound is gone. I've rendered the clip as an AVI file.

AVI is just a container, not a codec. It's possible that you exported in DV format or uncompressed or Cineform with the AVI container, and that might have an audio codec that WMP doesn't support. You need to export in WMV to really know if you lose the sound on export or not.
BobF wrote on 10/11/2008, 5:40 AM
I exported in HDV 720 but I may well have chosen uncompressed in the Custom settings by accident. I went back and re-rendered as a WMV and the sound was there.

Thanks.