you totally lost me there - even read in SPOT's book but haven't clue as what is causing this terrible output!!
Help?

//Garo

My project consists of ACID loops on the audio track and a whole lots still photos extended to several minutes with lots of Panning going on - this apperantly affects the ACID Loops. I rendered another project with just a short .avi file and a ACID loop and it didn't distort at all.

Sooooo, how do I get the ACID loops to ignore my panning actions (if that is in fact the problem)

TIA, Garo

Sounds like you might be running into issues where you are panning and distorting due to relative power. Try mixing your ACID project 3dB lower, and your pans likely won't distort. Just highlight all ACID tracks and pull the slider back on one track. All sliders/volume controls will move with it.
Look in your Vegas helpfor balance of power or panning power information, I'm sure there is information there.

Hi SPOT!
The panning is on my video track - although I DO, in fact have some audio panning going on this doesn't seem to be giving the distorstion problem.

Are the acid loops somehow coupled to the panning or the still shots on my video track?

Like I said I rendered out another project without Panning/Cropping on the video track and the loops are fine!

How's my english?

//Garo

I misunderstood.
About the only way I"m aware of, that pan/cropping could cause audio distortion, is if you are panning across illegal colors.

Got into: Properties > Normalize > Method = None

Seems to work better OK now (knock on any organic surface) except I still have some audio disrtortion remaining on a fade-in - right at the begining of the project.

//G.

"How's my english?"

Your English is very good, better than that of many who started learning it in the cradle...

Just a few minor suggestions:

1. Change "Hi SPOT!" to "HI SPOT!" for consistency.

2. Remove the comma after "I DO", as it breaks a good sentence and makes the reader's mind stop in the wrong place (you could alternatively add a comma after "in fact", but that changes the meaning slightly towards "I'm not normally trustable, but in this case I'm really speaking the truth.").

3. Remove the "s" in "distorstion".

4. "Panning/Cropping" would be better written as either "Pan/Crop" which would presumably refer specifically to the Vegas function in this context, or panning/cropping which would refer to the functionality in general.

5. Add a comma after "Like I said", it would make the sentence easier to read.

Are you sorry you asked? :O)

You absolutely shouldn't be. I have had to make major corrections to the work of many professional writers (I'm not even talking about authors, they are the worst), some of whom had a Ph.D. in English from distinguished universities.

Why edit? To help the reader. For clarity, not for any other purpose.

Just like with video editing. Really...

There have been other purposes such as, "English shouldn't use split infinitives such as 'to boldly go...,' because Latin doesn't use this ("to go" is one word in Latin, so you can't split it).

The English word "grammar" originally referred only to study of the Latin language, and this was considered so fundamental to society that the word "grammar school" lives even today, even without much Latin or grammar being taught...

To give credit where credit is due, the formal study of grammar originated in India in the 5th century B.C.

Many Shiva temples in India even today contain a "grammar pavilion" to worship the wonderful significance of grammar... (saying "the science of language was born from the dance of Shiva").

The earliest known scientific treatise on grammar is from that great 5th century B.C., and Mr. Panini, the author, explains in the introduction to his work, "we study grammar so that the language may open itself up to us, like a loving wife to her husband."

I never heard it quite like that from my English teacher... :O)

Most of what is in Panini's grammar is used already in modern computer languages (not intentionally but newly created at great expense). Some top Western linguists are now trying to figure out how the rest of his seminal work can benefit computer language architecture.

There are some excellent books on Film Grammar too...

B.J. (who is going back to editing video for a while now, although the similarities with editing text are substantial)

P.S. I can already hear the flames coming down my T-1 link from English speakers saying I goofed above in not putting the comma inside the quotes in a few places above...

Everybody learns in school that "the comma goes inside the quotes," but they don't usually learn about the exception. The exception is when the quotes aren't used to indicate something that was said, but they rather delimit a definition for example (actual brackets wouldn't work because in the English language they are normally used to indicate a substitution).

In scientific circles there is a lot of disagreement on English grammar. This language has an immensity of vocabulary (at least 750,000 words), but it's considered clunky by many (just think of "somebody who gives his/her life" and similar constructs, a problem that doesn't exist in many other languages).

No matter what you write, there will be somebody there to criticize. Still, if you put clarity first, you'll do a great service to your readers.

When I get to be President I will mandate that all words spelled the same with different meanings shall be spelled differently so that there will never be two words spelled the same with different meanings in the entire English database. I will also eliminate the Celcius and Farenheight temperature scales and substitute the Kelvin scale.

JJK

<<<<No matter what you write, there will be somebody there to criticize. >>>A-frickin-men to that.