Splitting Scenes and Sound track?

garo wrote on 11/2/2003, 2:56 AM
My Vegas doesn't detect scenes not rendered in Vegas so I go in and split manually with the "S" key.
Problem: I want to split the sound track at presicely the same spot - like they should be "locked" together - if I click on the sound track to enable the "S" split then sometimes it is just a bit off so I lose the synk after that.

Help folks?
TIA, Garo

Comments

kevgl wrote on 11/2/2003, 3:06 AM
Check under Options for Quantize to frames, enable snapping, etc?

(btw - I'm new to Vegas so don't take me as gospel).

Cheers
jetdv wrote on 11/2/2003, 2:57 PM
WHERE did these files come from and what format are they in?
BillyBoy wrote on 11/2/2003, 11:12 PM
The video and audio are only locked together IF they are originally from the same source. Right clicking on the media can form groups. You also can ungroup if you want to stretch video over a span of audio you're going to delete for example. This is just a "brute force" method to get rid of a pop, maybe someone sniffing, burping, whatever or getting rid of a flash or something else in the video.

While there are many ways to approach it if you zoom way in, just clicking on BOTH the video and audio tracks if they're from different sources and not originally joined should allow you to keep things in sync that way.

Vegas is excellent at patching and repairing video like Photoshop is for fixing up still images. If you ever need to "fix" a bad section of video or audio and they are combined, just ungroup, then repair then if needed blend in from somewhere else on the track. With a little practice its like using an electronic version of white out.