Weird Audio Problem

mjroddy wrote on 5/22/2007, 6:18 PM
Well, it's weird for me. I must be doing something wrong.
I have a render of a file that, in this case is only one layer deep (all rendered from AE) and has one audio track, one SFX track and one music bed.
That all worked fine for a while.
Then I just re-rendered it and noticed the music bed cuts off the 2 seconds. No reason. The wave form is there, no volume envelopes, no track preempting it.
Tried to Edit in SoundForge 9 and, again, though I see the wave form, the audio cuts off in the same place.

What gives?

Thanks for any help.

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farss wrote on 5/22/2007, 6:27 PM
the music bed cuts off the 2 seconds

How is the two seconds cut off?
From the beginning or the end?
Is anything actually missing? By that I mean is it just silence that got lost.

I noticed yesterday when exporting from SFPro into Vegas any track with no block at the end ends up in Vegas shortened by the length of the null block. I doubt this is related though.
mjroddy wrote on 5/23/2007, 10:29 AM
It's weireder than that:
Everything plays just fine. Then at the very end - last 2 seconds (aprox) the music bed stops, and the VO and SFX track play fine.
As mentioned, the wave form says there's audio there in both Vegas and SF9. Visually, there's no problem.
I'll just have to re-record the music track and see what happens.
I've just never seen such a thing in all my years with Vegas.
bakerja wrote on 5/23/2007, 1:15 PM
I have seen similar problems with mp3's. I colaborate with a few folks on music projects and every now and then, a friend sends me a mp3 that cuts off at a certain point. Like you say, the waveform is there and it will play in Windows media player but vegas mutes at the same point every time.

I would like to know the reason also, but I just work around it by rendering a new file. Can't remember now if I render it in vegas or another app. but it is puzzling indeed.

JAB
mjroddy wrote on 5/24/2007, 9:34 AM
Well, I GUESS I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this behavior.
Though, from the lack of replies to this thread, I'd guess we're in the vast minority.
I just tried to render it out, and the resulting render chops off the audio as well. The only difference is the WAV now reflects that chop.
Even stranger, Vegas 6 doesn't have this problem with the same audio clip. Seemingly only Vegas 7d and Sound Forge 9.
I'm still experimenting.