Vegas Pro is currently using the media files...? Help? (17)

NyxNightmare wrote on 11/21/2020, 10:11 PM

I have Audacity set as my audio editor in Vegas Pro 17, but every time I try to copy an audio clip to open and edit it in Audacity I get this error. It tells me to try stopping the playback, except I do and it still refuses to work.

This also happened in Vegas Pro 15, which I was just recently using. I upgraded to 17 today in the hopes that the newer program wouldn't have such a worthless issue, but nope - It's still there, and still annoying.

This happens on every audio clip, too. Sometimes it will work, which is strange, but that's only 1 out of 20 or 30 times restarting the program to try again, and I have found zero ways around this besides editing the file itself in Audacity solo, which isn't ideal. Vegas Pro claims I can use an audio editor in the program, one it automatically pulls up for me, so having to do it myself just seems to defeat the entire purpose of even allowing you to use audio editors in Vegas Pro to begin with.

Yes, I've also Googled this, but there is Nothing. The only help I've ever seen of this issue was for Vegas Pro 13, and that wasn't even help. It was someone complaining, and no one having a solution, so even that is useless to me. Is there really no way around this issue?

(Using Win 10)

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walter-i. wrote on 11/22/2020, 3:16 AM

@NyxNightmare

Are you talking about "Voice over"?

If so, I also had the problem.
I got around it by creating my voice over in Audacity and saving it as a .wav file. I integrated this file into the soundtrack in Vegas Pro. If adjustments or changes were required, I made them in the audio file with Audacity and simply overwritten the existing file. (The file should not currently be playing in Vegas, but otherwise it works fine).

In the meantime I upgraded to Vegas Pro 18 and got Soundforge Pro 14 with it.
Unfortunately, this workaround doesn't work. The file CANNOT be overwritten as long as it is in the project media in Vegas Pro - active or inactive - no difference - like yours.
Now I'm in Soundforge trying to find a good workaround for myself - the linking with the "preferred audio editor" works better there - but as I said, I'm still in the process of finding an ideal workaround for myself.

Summary: Soundforge Pro isn't better - it's just different.

There are a few forum posts on the topic, but as you have already noticed, "XY unsolved"

rraud wrote on 11/22/2020, 11:40 AM

Try 'Open copy in audio editor'. which creates a duplicate event audio flie on top of the original event
Try changing the playback audio device type in one of the apps
Try changing 'Close media files when no the active application' in "Options> Preferences> General"

NyxNightmare wrote on 11/24/2020, 1:11 PM

Try 'Open copy in audio editor'. which creates a duplicate event audio flie on top of the original event
Try changing the playback audio device type in one of the apps
Try changing 'Close media files when no the active application' in "Options> Preferences> General"

I only do open copy. That is the thing that doesn't work. Only opening the original to change that specifically works, but I don't want to change the original in case I need it again. Close media files is on by default, and I haven't touched it.

NyxNightmare wrote on 11/24/2020, 1:13 PM

@NyxNightmare

Are you talking about "Voice over"?

If so, I also had the problem.
I got around it by creating my voice over in Audacity and saving it as a .wav file. I integrated this file into the soundtrack in Vegas Pro. If adjustments or changes were required, I made them in the audio file with Audacity and simply overwritten the existing file. (The file should not currently be playing in Vegas, but otherwise it works fine).

In the meantime I upgraded to Vegas Pro 18 and got Soundforge Pro 14 with it.
Unfortunately, this workaround doesn't work. The file CANNOT be overwritten as long as it is in the project media in Vegas Pro - active or inactive - no difference - like yours.
Now I'm in Soundforge trying to find a good workaround for myself - the linking with the "preferred audio editor" works better there - but as I said, I'm still in the process of finding an ideal workaround for myself.

Summary: Soundforge Pro isn't better - it's just different.

There are a few forum posts on the topic, but as you have already noticed, "XY unsolved"

No, audio files themselves. Trying to copy the audio file into Audacity, so making a "take 2" from the original audio file. Only opening the original audio file itself in Vegas works, but not making a copy and having that copy open up for me to change. The only way I'm able to make copies and import them in now is manually, which really defeats the purpose of even having the option to use any audio program inside Vegas since it literally doesn't work. I still have to go through 2 or 3 other audio programs first before ever touching Vegas, so the point of having an audio program linked through Vegas is useless.

Dexcon wrote on 11/25/2020, 3:56 AM

Just a suggestion ... you've got 'Close media files when not the active application' checked in Options/Preferences/General which is fine, but after sending the audio event back to Audacity, do you make sure that the audio event on Vegas Pro's timeline is no longer highlighted. If it is highlighted, it is thus the 'active application'. If it is still highlighted, then no matter which audio editor you are using it will be unable to save.

The same thing sometimes happens to me when using SoundForge as the preferred audio editor, sometimes even when the subject audio event is not highlighted. I then need to highlight something else on the timeline - maybe on another track - to clear things up.