Timeline Audio Issue

R_U_Kynd wrote on 2/28/2004, 7:31 AM

i'm having great difficulties with audio in the timeline. i have upgraded to the latest version (e) but no matter what format of audio i place on the timeline, it plays back garbled. however these same audio plays fine in the trimmer. i looked in old listings but found not a solution. can anyone help?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 2/28/2004, 8:01 AM

Coupla things to look at:
First, be sure the audio is on a separate drive from your Boot drive. This really shouldn't be a problem, but with a fragmented boot drive with lots of programs in data on it....it can happen.
Second, enable DMA in your System, found under control panel.
Third, look and see what your audio buffers are set at.
Fourth, you may need to reduce the amount of graphics acceleration. Find this control under your Display, Settings, Advanced, Troubleshoot tab.
Fifth, be sure your sound card isn't sharing an IRQ with a highly placed resource like a vid card or NIC card.
Finally, check your sound card drivers. sound cards are rarely a problem, bu they occasionally can be.

R_U_Kynd wrote on 2/28/2004, 9:33 AM

spot, thank you for your reply. after reading your post, here are the step i have taken / checked

• audio is on a seperate physical drive
• audio card is not sharing irq with anything
• audio card driver is current (card is a ESS Canyon 3D 2 PCI 5.1 card)
• adjusted graphics accel and tried different buffer settings
• i have an xp pro system, so i am assuming DMA is enabled, but couldn't figure out how to check it.

still have the same problem. like i said before, sound files play perfectly in trimmer and also in other applications, but once they're on the time line audio stutters and lags. i used vegas for a while and this problem is new. updated to latest version to try and fix problem, but hasn't helped.

incase it will help, i have tried various audio formats (.wav .mp3 .wma) and it doesn't have an effect. changing to a 5.1 audio track makes no difference except the sound seems to jump around from front/center to rear channels.

also, imported video video clips with grouped audio have the same problem.

would certainly appreciate more suggestions.

Udi wrote on 2/28/2004, 9:40 AM

Try to disable all audio FX - on the track and bus.

johnmeyer wrote on 2/28/2004, 10:11 AM

In Vegas, look at Options -> Preferences -> Audio Device. Try changing the Audio Device Type.

R_U_Kynd wrote on 2/28/2004, 10:18 AM

thanks for the suggestions... i tried both of them but they had no effect :(