Track in Vegas 1.0...Mix in Pro Tools?

cooper99 wrote on 2/12/2002, 10:38 PM
Hi. A friend of mine recently tracked an album's worth of material in a bedroom studio using Vegas 1.0 (on a PC, of course). Now, they would like to mix these songs on my ProTools/Macintosh setup. My first attempt to convert a Vegas session to a Pro Tools session (which consisted of going into the Vegas session, jotting down all of the audio file names and start times, then burning a CD of WAV files, importing them into PT, and attempting to place them in tracks to duplicate the Vegas session) failed. The tracks did not want to line up correctly, despite my detailed notes. This process was very tedious anyway, and I wasn't looking forward to going through it 12 times! Could anyone suggest a way to get these tracks over to ProTools?

Thanks a lot
Steve

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DocBlase wrote on 2/12/2002, 11:18 PM
I have no experience with Vegas anything, ( dropping in here as a prospective Vegas Video owner) but here's a technique we use over in Digi-Land to sync tape tracks that don't have timecode:
Print a simultaneous impulse across all your tracks you wish to export, a click or pop about a second before the audio begins... then after loading them into PT, you'll have an absolute time reference for all the tracks- you can line 'em up at the sample zoom level using grid at 1 sample, and you're all synched up. This might work for you, too.
SHTUNOT wrote on 2/12/2002, 11:40 PM
You have your song...
1. Render each track to a new file [aiff for mac] and store it to a folder. But make sure you create a loop region at the start of the song say at bar one and a few beats after it ends.You'll have a file that will have a bunch of "empty/silent" space that will be there for you as a guide.
2. Open protools and import all your aiff files into a folder and set up protools for this song. Make sure you have the tempo of the song set correctly and then just place the file at the same start point you had it in Vegas.
3. Have fun!
cooper99 wrote on 2/13/2002, 6:51 AM
Thank you for the response...
Could you tell me how to render each track in a Vegas session to a new file? Right now, the individual tracks in the Vegas sessions are comprised of lots of snippets of audio with spaces between them, etc. Is there a way in Vegas 1.0 to select an individual track (from 0:00 to the end of the song, for example) and make one big audio file? This way, if a particular song has 10 tracks, I'd end up with 10 audio files, each starting at 0:00. Then, to be doubly safe, I could record a tone across all tracks prior to the start of the song. My original problem was that I could not find a way to get the files lined up properly in PT.

Thanks so much for your advice,
Steve
Chienworks wrote on 2/13/2002, 7:49 AM
I haven't seen Vegas 1.0, but in version 3 you can solo tracks by clicking the exclamation point in the track ID tag. Then when you render on the track or tracks that are soloed will appear in the output file. I'm assuming this function or something similar must exist in version 1 as well.

If nothing else works, you can always delete all tracks but one, render that one track, then reload the project (without saving it, of course), and repeat for the next track.