Use Vegas render from 96 to 44.1 or separate SRC

RickZ wrote on 12/4/2007, 7:30 AM

I have been using Vegas to do a multi-track 96/24 recording from 6 mics, then render to 96/32 for editing by SF9, then SRC down to 44.1/16 with r8brainPro, then create CD with CD Arch 5.2, sounded fine. By mistake, I just did the render from multi-track 96/24 to 44.1/32 in Vegas8.0c, and must say I can't tell much difference.

I was wondering if PCH might have an opinion on SRC within Vegas, vs external SRC's . . or others that go through the process of recording at 96/24, for delivery to user via CD.

Best regards,
Rick Z

Comments

pwppch wrote on 12/4/2007, 8:12 AM

This is subjective at best. Sure there are better algorithms for SRC.

I have not compared external/third party SRC software, so I cannot offer you an opinion here.

Vegas is good, and you can control this from the project audio preferences page. Settings are Preview, Good (the default), and Best. Best is more expensive, and you may want to use this only when rendering if you encounter playback problems.

Peter

jbolley wrote on 12/4/2007, 8:30 AM

I dunno r8brain's stuff. One suggestion for material destined for 44.1KHz would be source recording at 88.2 instead of 96 - the math is much more straightforward.

Jesse

Geoff_Wood wrote on 12/4/2007, 6:07 PM

Why SRC ? Just save from Vegas in the spec the files were recorded, edit in in SF, and let CDA do the SRC. Or SRC in SF to 44/16 once your editing is done if you are not confident in CDA's SRC.

Always set the conversion to 'Best'

geoff