Want to copy many audio events to SF

teaktart wrote on 10/16/2004, 9:36 PM
Hi,
I have stitched together a performance video and want to send all of the audio 'events' on the timeline to Sound Forge for mixing and to burn a cd of the audio track as well .
How can I take the entire audio track with all the crossfades in place and move it to SF as one whole piece so when I bring it back to Vegas it will sync with the video track that is likewise edited with crossfades, etc.
Thanks for your help,
Teaktart

Comments

AlistairLock wrote on 10/17/2004, 3:33 AM
Do a mixdown of the entire soundtrack as a 44.1 khz wavefile to burn from SoundForge rather than trying to stitch all the pieces together?
Chienworks wrote on 10/17/2004, 5:58 AM
Two questions: Why not mix in Vegas? Why not burn the CD in Vegas? Vegas is much better suited for both of these operations than Sound Forge is.
Grazie wrote on 10/17/2004, 8:14 AM
. . just done a "draft" openning for a vid using 11 tracks and sound efects .. namely me inhaling and exhaling into the onboard mic of my XM2 while capturing "live" thru' VidCap - well it's what I do on a Sunday in London .. I don't ask what you do - and I need the flexibility and "Grazie-Proof" options to get what I want down and done quickly - then I try something else - yeah?

. . .the vid? Oh, that's coming together . . . . drafts draughts . ..

. .. G
teaktart wrote on 10/17/2004, 2:34 PM
WOW !
Thanks for openning my eyes to the ability to burn a cd right from Vegas. Hadn't noticed that before.
As an overall strategy I would like some recommendations on the best way to start working on a performance video.

In this case:
I put the video on the timeline then started to cut out parts between songs, etc and then crossfaded one song into the next. Added my titles and credits and am now done with the "video" part of my project.

What I wanted to do next was take all the audio (with the Xfades, etc) and as one unit bring it to Sound Forge so I could work with the EQ, volume, normalize, etc to try and get the best audio I could. I got stumped on how to move the audio as a whole to SF to apply the different processes and then bring it back to Vegas in one unit so the sync with the video would still be correct. (In other words, the length of the audio stays exactly the same). I bet there is a better way I could be doing this and would love some suggestions. I want to get the whole performance to be of uniform volume, etc and thought SF would be the way to go to get this done.

Also, in wanting to burn the audio to a cd(s) what would be a good way to do this if the performance is longer than an 80min cd can hold? I made a region of less than 80min making a cut at the end of a song and burned it to a cd, but there is still another 20min of material for another cd which I made. I want to have someone else massage the audio so it sounds better and then bring it back into my Vegas project and have it sync correctly. Is there a way to take the audio track from my Vegas project and burn it to a dvd so I don't have the 80 min. limitation of a cd?
Thanks much,
Teaktart
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/17/2004, 2:47 PM
If you want to bring multiple files into Forge, you'll need to do them one at a time, or render the entire timeline to one wave file.
teaktart wrote on 10/18/2004, 9:28 PM
A new approach.....

I took my audio track, clicked on the track header to hightlight it and "rendered to new track" which did the trick of making all the audio events (or songs) one piece locking in the length of my audio track so it would stay the exact same length as my video track and hence be in sync after tweeking the audio in SF. ( I didn't have to bring each song into SF seperately , as mentioned above which was a real relief)

I could then use SF to make some changes and returned it back to Vegas.
I burned the audio onto 2 cds so I could get all my audio onto disc, but was not happy having to split it up like that as my video is over 80 min long and wouldn't fit on just one cd

So......

I finally figured out how to use my RECORD NOW software (which came with my dvd burner) and made a "data" dvd-r with the full audio track (.wav) so I could hand it over to someone else (with more experience in mixing) to work with the audio. He could likewise burn his version back onto the dvd-r and I hope to put this back into my Vegas project and it should be the exact same length and should sync with the video track. WHEW !!!

But what fun working this out.... thanks for all your suggestions and help!

Teaktart