Brand new to both Acid and Vegas (I worked with Sonar 3 and Premiere 6 for years, but not in the last 3 years). I'm setting up an A/V recording/production room at a school (on a very limited budget)and learning how to use the software as I go.
The computer is a dual core pentium 4 at 3GHz with 1.2GB RAM. C drive is 80GB and the slave is a 300GB partitioned to D: 130 GB & E: 170GB. Running Win XP SP3. I can max the RAM to 4GB, but right now budget constraints mean I must wait a while, so we make do with what there is.
I have an old analog HI8 camera with 1 audio channel and an old Pinnacle video input card with RCA and SVideo ins and outs plus a IEEE 1394 connector. The system recognized the card when I installed it and found a driver to use, but since it is analog, Vegas can't use it. However Windows ovie Maker can, so I use that to do my capture then do the work in Vegas.
I found that WMM can't capture lengthy clips. My first project is a tape of a board meeting that is about 40 minutes total. I broke the capture into 5 to 10 minute segments and then I'm editing them together in Vegas.
I found that some of the clips have the audio offset from the video, and in some cases there are some glitches that need correcting. I just need to snip 'n' slip the audio against the video without disturbing the video.
The help file says to use an external audio editor and save with the same name, then Vegas will recognize the new file and automatically import it.
I set the audio editor to be Acid Pro 7 and when I "opened in audio editor", it opened in Acid and I made my snip n slip just fine. But when I tried to save it, it would only save as an Acid project file. So I tried to use it like that, but Vegas doesn't recognize the file as anything to do with the original video.
The help in Acid doesn't seem to cover this situation, so I'm stuck. Can anyone out there help? Or at least give me some pointers?
Thanks in advance,
Roger
The computer is a dual core pentium 4 at 3GHz with 1.2GB RAM. C drive is 80GB and the slave is a 300GB partitioned to D: 130 GB & E: 170GB. Running Win XP SP3. I can max the RAM to 4GB, but right now budget constraints mean I must wait a while, so we make do with what there is.
I have an old analog HI8 camera with 1 audio channel and an old Pinnacle video input card with RCA and SVideo ins and outs plus a IEEE 1394 connector. The system recognized the card when I installed it and found a driver to use, but since it is analog, Vegas can't use it. However Windows ovie Maker can, so I use that to do my capture then do the work in Vegas.
I found that WMM can't capture lengthy clips. My first project is a tape of a board meeting that is about 40 minutes total. I broke the capture into 5 to 10 minute segments and then I'm editing them together in Vegas.
I found that some of the clips have the audio offset from the video, and in some cases there are some glitches that need correcting. I just need to snip 'n' slip the audio against the video without disturbing the video.
The help file says to use an external audio editor and save with the same name, then Vegas will recognize the new file and automatically import it.
I set the audio editor to be Acid Pro 7 and when I "opened in audio editor", it opened in Acid and I made my snip n slip just fine. But when I tried to save it, it would only save as an Acid project file. So I tried to use it like that, but Vegas doesn't recognize the file as anything to do with the original video.
The help in Acid doesn't seem to cover this situation, so I'm stuck. Can anyone out there help? Or at least give me some pointers?
Thanks in advance,
Roger