Vegas and audioquestion

UlfLaursen wrote on 1/30/2008, 10:30 AM
Hi

I have some footage shot with a Sony DVCAM cam of a kind. I have 2 audiotracks, one a line-feed from a mixer, and one from the on camera mounted mic. I want to take the "line-feed" channel and copy to both channels.

Can I do this in Vegas, or should I use SF - I only have SF audiostudio though.

Thanks a lot in advance.

/Ulf

Comments

TGS wrote on 1/30/2008, 10:47 AM
I'm sure it can be done in Vegas.
I would import both sound tracks and take one soundtrack and stack it above the other. Make sure they are sync'd, of course.
Place a volume envelope on each sound track and adjust to taste, including maybe turning down one while the other is turned up in certain situations where you don't need both mixed together
When rendering a soundtrack, what you hear in the timeline, should be what gets mixed to ac3.
Chienworks wrote on 1/30/2008, 11:09 AM
The audio will come in as a single stereo track. Duplicate this track by holding the Ctrl key down and dragging the event straight down to an empty area of the timeline. Then right-mouse-button click on each one, choose channels, and for one select left only and for the other right only. You'll then be able to control them individually as TGS describes.
UlfLaursen wrote on 1/30/2008, 11:19 AM
Thanks a lot, guy - I willll give it a go. :-)

/Ulf
rs170a wrote on 1/30/2008, 11:29 AM
Edward Troxel has a script called "Stereo Split" on his site that will take a stereo event, copy it to a new track, set the top one to "right only" and set the bottom one to "left only" splitting your stereo track into two distinct channels.
You may need to log in to get it but it's free, painless and very worthwhile.

Mike
farss wrote on 1/30/2008, 11:44 AM
Careful doing that!

As the audio and video are grouped what you end up doing is creating two copies of the video on the one track and another copy of the audio on it's own track!
What you need to do is firstly hit the Ignore Even Grouping Icon, do the Ctl+Drag copy of the audio track, turn off Ignore Event Grouping and then group the video and two audio tracks. Then do the channel selection.

Bob.
UlfLaursen wrote on 1/30/2008, 1:12 PM
Thanks again - don't quite understand though (it's late.....)

I have draged my clip to the timeline
I have an audiotrack grouped to video with two channels L and R
The R channel is the one I want to use in both L and R.
If I copy the audio to a new track I still have two good R's and two low bad L's.

Sorry, but I cant quite figure out from here what to do.

Thanks.

/Ulf
Tim L wrote on 1/30/2008, 1:21 PM
If you want to ignore one channel, then don't copy the audio track at all. Just take the original (stereo) track, right click, select "Channels", and select "Use Left" or "Use Right" (or whatever the wording is) to pick the one you want.

For example, the "Use Left" option really means "Use the Left source channel for both left and right output channels".

Tim L
TGS wrote on 1/30/2008, 1:46 PM
Yes, this is easy
Highlight audio track
Right click and go to "Channels"
select "Right Only"
this will play through both channels when you listen and render your ac3.
UlfLaursen wrote on 1/30/2008, 8:58 PM
You guys are great, thanks a lot!! Vegas rulez :-)

/Ulf