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Audioon 4/12/2006
EQ
Full versions of Vegas have Noise Gate, Track EQ and Track Compressor by default loaded in each track as far back as I can remember up to version 5. I don't have 6 but I'd bet V-6 does too. BTW, Are you clicking on the green track FX icon in the track header > Sony folder? Remember, only the FULL VERSION supports DX plug-ins. MJ
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Audioon 4/2/2006
Vegas 6-Realtek 5.1 Problem
My Realtek 5.1 shows up with both the Abit drivers and ASIO-4-All drivers in both Acid and Vegas "5" though I seldom use it for anything but system sounds and down & dirty quick work playback. For real audio I use my Delta. Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Abit 8NA-V, nForce 4 Realtek daughter card 1 GB Kingston DDR-400 RAM MJ
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Videoon 3/19/2006
OT: Done with Norton - anti virus advice?
>>>>computer guru who uses AOL<<<< That's the epitome of oxymoron! MJ
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Audioon 3/18/2006
EQ
Are you using the FULL version of Vegas? If so, to the right of the track name in the track header, you should have a Record, Phase, then the Track FX Icon. Lesser versions of Vegas don't/may not support DX pluggins. MJ
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Videoon 2/26/2006
New PC: Best way to transfer and upgrade
Preset Manager is a big help. MJ
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Audioon 2/20/2006
How do you identify an event on the track?
Options > Preferences > General, check "Show active take names in events". Right click a file in the Media Pool > Select timeline events. MJ
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Audioon 1/25/2006
Stock Vegas plugin Mixing!
Gotcha' Deeeejay, keep 'em spinning. MJ
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Audioon 1/16/2006
No audio monitoring from sound card
In the soundcard recording dialog you have to select the source, something like What U Hear, Stereo Mix... Somehow it was changed by some other app. most likely. MJ
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Audioon 1/16/2006
Stock Vegas plugin Mixing!
Jaydee, I believe you have totally missed the mark concerning pipelineaudio. He is anything but a novice. He makes his living as an audio engineer. He simply started this thread as an endeavor to discover/exhibit what can be done using ONLY the "stock/native" Sony plugs. Do some research on him here and on the net. MJ
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Audioon 7/21/2005
Which levels to calibrate?
For mixing? Vegas. For recording? All of them except the Delta Mixer as it only attenuates so leave it maxed or bypass it in the Patch Bay Router. It's called gain staging. Start with the the first device in the chain (closest to the source), set it to optimum levels (as close to clipping without clipping by adjusting the trim/gain) for the hottest signal then move to the next device in the chain and repeat until the end (Vegas in this case). MJ
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Audioon 7/21/2005
Wave Hammer -> Random Beeps - Vegas 6.0b
The solution is in Support > Knowledgebase above. MJ
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Audioon 7/4/2005
Happy 4th of July!
Certainly a milestone, please let us know when you are tracking the likes of Dave Weckl, Earl Klugh, George Benson, Chick Corea, Stanley Clark etc. wannabes and no longer the A&R force-fed weedy-sounding, instrumentally inept modern bands such as Snow Patrol, The Killers, Coldplay, etc. wannabes. MJ - Who lives for the day fuzz guitar is used very sparingly for effect and screaming pissed-off vocals are a distant memory.
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Audioon 6/23/2005
CD Titles and Songs
Thing is though very few CD players or PC based players read CD Text (WMP being one) That's why I keep Siren installed (love it) as it reads CD-Text. Ironic since Sony apps. didn't produce it until this year and Siren supported reading it years ago. Siren even has the option to write to CDplayer.ini after edits. The old Windows CD Player of Win 98 days supported CD-Text and wrote it to CDplayer.ini. Zach, one of the WMP developers is quite arrogant about the way WMP handles it's media library... "Much more advanced than CDplayer.ini". That's fine and dandy for commercial CDs or if you take the time to go through the CDDB verifying each track if the correct album is listed but reading CD-Text simply works elegantly :O. I've converted the majority of my vinyl collection now, some ~1000 albums and CD-Text is crucial for CD-Rs (vinyl). I also rip to MP3 for the car so I can get over 15 albums/CD. WMP for commercial CDs and Siren for CD-Rs is my technique. I believe WinAmp reads CD-Text also but I don't have it installed anymore. I've seen many current CD players support CD-Text and MP3 meta-data including my $37 US Emerson walkman style CD player from... you guessed it, Sam Walton. MJ
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Audioon 4/19/2005
Forum's Turned Ugly
Nested projects is one thing, but I don't get why they didn't implement the ACID folder tracks in V6. Because nested projects is a video thing in reality. Think about it... if you were to build a video and you had segments of video on your HDD that would fit in an up coming project, say a fireworks shot with audio, it would be invaluable to be able to load that footage (veg) nested in the project. Jeeze folks, smell the coffee, wake up time. I don't mean this derogatorily, I'm in the same boat you are. Facts are facts, business is business, numbers are numbers. Fighting the good fight here, spread eagle on the common seems to me a lost cause. Markedly speaking , audio users are a minority. I've gone through this time and time again over my career. Drum machines, One man band keyboard players, Karaoke, DJ, it goes on and on. Real is Real. Marketing is marketing, we can use what we have (V.x) and make the best of it or go the way of the dinosaur. Hey, American (Karaoke) Idol makes big bucks, gag. MJ
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Audioon 4/19/2005
Forum's Turned Ugly
Everyone owns a car stereo own a PC with a sound card These are the consumers of the end product, delivery in marketing Red. I know you know these are the folks that can't figure out which input of their SB card to plug their mic into to chat with MSN Messenger and crank their bass up on their EQs so their trunk lids rattle at red lights. They are the consumers, Sony is targeting videographers (including novices) that require software to edit their video, need to edit and author to DVD or above. Those with camcorders require a medium to deliver their work, those with CD players rarely are recording bands requiring software to edit and deliver the media. They can easily go the DJ route with free or bundled Roxio/Nero, etc. software to make their mixed CDs. Only a hand-full of us are musicians/AEs and provide a less than limited market truth be told. from EPM's posts I believe you mean Peter (PHC). I have to hand it to Peter, I have nothing but respect for him (you Peter), he waded into the fire repeatedly attempting to be real and his underlying conviction to his audio cause is at a minimum commendable if not heroic. He certainly has to toe the mark of his paycheck sign"er". Again, it's about business for all of us. Believe me when I say I'm no less disheartened at the course this awesome software has taken though far from unexpected. I started on Cakewalk, I hate the work-flow, was blown away when I discovered Vegas and must hold back hurling at the realization that Sonar will be in my future for some time to come. MJ
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Audioon 4/19/2005
Forum's Turned Ugly
only kidding of course! Yep, true enough. The truth is as I stated over a year ago (do a search). Sony is anything but hap hazard. They are as focused as any company. Companies are about making money, none of you need to be reminded of that. They know, to make money their focus is video (OK, call it multimedia if you like), video is king money-wise. The graffiti was on the wall post VV 3. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to compile the facts. A recent post summed it up in one sentence... paraphrasing, "Everyone has a camcorder". All the whining in the world will have NO affect on Sony, again it's and always will be, about making money folks, simple as that. A handful of "audio users" are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. That was evident to me as soon as I began to pursue Vegas' video capabilities in version 3 since I wanted to know the whole program. The overwhelming participation in the video forum and a little common sense made it obvious to the path this software would take. We "audio users" mean nothing, it's about making money. Who wouldn't gear their business towards millions as opposed to hundreds? MJ
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Videoon 3/25/2005
copy a plugin chain?
You don't have to save the presets for each plugin and reload them individually, you can save the whole chain and just load the chain. Click the plugin button in the track header of the track you have set the way you want, click the add plugin button in the Audio Track FX window, when the Plug-in Chooser pops up you will see a Save As button to save the entire chain. Another way is to R-click the track header you have set up > Duplicate Track, delete the duplicated audio event/s then add the audio you want. MJ
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Audioon 3/25/2005
Audio during scrolling
Scrub playback = J, K, or L keys. MJ
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Audioon 3/25/2005
Saving Projects question
I don't know if you can call it the "correct" way but I use File > Save As.. > Check Copy and Trim Media to a folder named for the project. You can then compress (zip) that folder if you like. If I want to archive and save space I either render each track to a new track using Sony's PCA format first then delete all the original WAV tracks, or use Batch Converter and go through pointing Vegas to all the new files then follow the above. PITA I know, again I wish there was an option to Copy and Trim using the PCA format. PCA is Sony's lossless compressed format. I get close to a 50% reduction in filesize. You won't gain much if anything compressing (zipping) the PCA project folder, it's already about as compressed as it will go. MJ
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Videoon 3/25/2005
Maybe OT?: Vegas and Audio CD Burning
Vegas does not support CD-Text (yet). Even if it did WMP will not read it from CD-Rs. WMP insists on connecting to online CDDBs for the track names and since CD-Rs don't have the commercial serial number the CDDB won't recognize it not to mention this is your own creation not a commercial CD. If you burn the CD with an app. that supports CD-Text such as CD-A 5 or Roxio, players that recognize CD-Text such as Siren (maybe Winamp) will display the titles. MJ
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Audioon 3/23/2005
Importing media from Roxio Media Creator.
This question really belongs in the Vegas Video forum. While part of it relates to audio, it's audio associated with video and video codecs. As to your question, the reason the audio does not import into Vegas is that it is likely compressed to AC-3 for DVD delivery. Vegas encodes to AC-3 but does not decode it. The best solution is to capture the raw video/audio again into Vegas, Vegas works best on .avi and .wav. While you can edit .mpeg (MPEG 2 most likely in this case) it's cumbersome and CPU intensive and as MPEG is a compressed format which means it's degraded from the original you will have to re-encode to MPEG 2 for DVD delivery further degrading the video. There are third party apps. that can de-mux the MPEG-2 to AVI and WAVE which will allow you to then edit both the audio and video in Vegas but you are still faced with re-encoding to MPEG and degradation. BTW 5 GB is too large for one DVD, it must be under 4.7 GB. MJ
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Videoon 3/11/2005
speed up/slow down alll clips in the timeline...
Select all the events you want to group > Press the "G" key > Ctl + drag the edge. MJ
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Audioon 3/5/2005
Coordinating Audio and Video
Get the "Tap Tempo" and Add Markers At Interval scripts either from the Script Collection or VASST (both free). Unpack them to a/the scripts folder. Options > Grid Spacing > Ruler Marks. Load ONLY the song to a track in Vegas. Right click the ruler and select Measures and Beats. Launch the Tap Tempo script (Tools > Scripting > Run Script), play the audio, tap the space bar to the beat and get the BPM. File > Properties > Ruler, add the BPM here. Run the Add Markers At Interval script, you will now have a marker at the start of each measure. Right click the ruler and change it to Seconds. Double-click between two markers, note the Selection Length time in the box to the lower right of the track view. You can double-click > copy it. For a 120 BPM project the selection length will be 2 seconds. Options > Preferences > Editing tab, New Still Image Length (seconds), enter the Selection Length time here. Cut-to-overlap conversion - this is the transition durration time. For what you are doing you may want more of a cut between slides rather than long crossfades so very short times here if that's the case. Now outside Vegas number all your stills sequentially in a separate folder. In Vegas' Explorer drill to that folder > select all the images > right-click > Add to Media Pool. In the Media Pool select all the stills and drag to the timeline. Now all the stills will display for the time you set in Preferences. If you have to make an adjustment you can Right-click the first still > Select Events to end. Right-click over the selected stills > Group > Create New. Now you can Control + Drag the right edge of the group and stretch or shrink as needed. The above assumes you want each image to display for one measure. If you want the images to display for 2 measures for example you would need to do a little math and double the time for the New Still Image Length entry. There is also a very handy Set Event Length and Crossfades script for making adjustments. There are also scripts that aren't free that do this all for you. If you post on the Vegas Video forum they will gladly point you to their products. MJ
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Videoon 3/2/2005
AMD Issues?
Liam, your link "http://scar.hollosite.com/help.php" seems to be Arabic. You might want to change it. MJ
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