I captured a bunch of VHS home grown video shot by various people. It was several versions of a the same song performed by the same barbershop chorus. The various performances were done in different buildings, shot on different cameras over a 17 year period.

I edited the bits together and pitch corrected as required to make it all sound reasonable. Then I rendered it and wrote a stereo DVD.

I took the DVD to my parent's house and played it. All the clips from one particular video tape were much louder than the other clips.

After some investigation, I found that the offending clip had it's stereo audio mostly out of phase. Their Sony stereo TV was set to "Wide Suround" mode, and it seems that it does some kind of phase related suround decode and raises the volume of everything it thinks should be in the rear speaker(s).

So, I'm now wishing that Vegas had a stereo audio phase scope. I'd like to see one channel on a horizontal axis and one on the vertical. If I see a straight line from 1:30 to 7:30, I've got mono, if I see an oval cloud form 1:30 to 7:30 I've probably got reasonable stereo. If I have a a circle of stuff, I have unrelated channels (perhaps unaligned in time). And... If I see an oval cloud or line from 10:30 to 4:30, then I've got problems.

Would anyone else find this as handy as I would? Is this a reasonable suggestion for Vegas 4.x or 5.0? If not, is there someone here smart enough to add it as a plug in audio filter?

Thanks,

John.