unable to mix audio

randib wrote on 12/1/2004, 5:26 PM

making my first movie. trying to make a 30 minute movie to dvd. video has went great. audio has not. in my movie i added 3 store bought songs from cds. when i try to render it errors saying "unable to mix audio". i removed the songs and it rendered and burned suceesfully. i have been reading all i can in the forum to find a solution. do i need to convert all my songs to wav format in order to pull this off ? if yes, will i be able to cut and mix these wav files in my project? downloaded (CDEX) and (AUDACITY) as freeware to rip cds and mix, suggested in forum. any help would be great ! have a great video, but it needs to rock if you know what i mean !!

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gogiants wrote on 12/1/2004, 6:41 PM

Have you upgraded to 4.0a? This sounds similar enough to some audio problems fixed in that patch that it might be worth trying.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=334061

Chienworks wrote on 12/2/2004, 3:44 AM

WAV is the preferred format. Click on File / Extract audio from CD. This will rip the tracks to WAV files and place them in the media pool.

randib wrote on 12/2/2004, 8:56 PM

Thanks for the great tips, will try them. maybe those wma files and mp3's were the root of my problem. Any forum experts recommend a easy to use, dependable, solid, audio ripper, mixer combo that works great for vegas 4.0 ?? besides cdex and audacity ?? do not mind paying for software ?? Last question, how can you capture a still frame and move to end of timeline such as (credit rolls, then stills shots while last song track plays to end my movie ??

IanG wrote on 12/3/2004, 12:54 AM

I'm sure there must be some, but I don't know of any packages that will both rip and mix. I've tried these and they're all good:-
MediaMonkey - freeware ripper / cataloguer / player
Media Center - commercial ripper / cataloguer / player. It also handles images and video
Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer - Commercial unlimited track mixer. Very simple to use
Acoustica MixCraft Recording Studio - As above, but with fx

Ian G.

Chienworks wrote on 12/3/2004, 4:17 AM

Actually i've found Vegas / Movie Studio / Videofactory to be a very stable, dependable, and solid audio ripper and mixer. I've never had any problems* with it using WAV, MP3, WMA, or many other formats.

To save a still frame, use the frame capture button above the right corner of the preview window. It looks like a little floppy disk icon. This will save the current frame in the preview window as a .jpg or .png file. You can then import this image into the timeline and stretch it out as long as you wish. Unfortunately this function captures a "screen grab" of the frame rather than the frame itself so you'll get whatever resolution the preview window is set for. Depending on which version of Vegas you're using, you'll want to set preview either to Best/Full, or right-mouse-button click on it and choose "display at project size" before saving the frame.

*Not entirely true. There once was a bug that if using an MP3 file as the audio along with an MPEG file for video, whenever the audio peaked above a certain level the video would distort too. This was fixed back before Vegas 3 / Videofactory 2 and hasn't been a problem since.

IanG wrote on 12/3/2004, 5:46 AM

I agree, but it's very easy to use more than 3 tracks. As for ripping, MS is fine as far as it goes, but doesn't score well when it comes to organising the ripped CDs, plus any sfx you may want to include.

I guess it's all down to personal choice, but I like using soundscapes, especialy with stills - it can realy bring them to life!

Ian G.