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Audioon 2/20/2005
Rendering audio in .wmv format
Ooops, my bad, should have read closer. For .wmv then it's; 440 kbps, 88 kHz, 24 bit, Constant Bit Rate for stereo. MJ
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Audioon 2/20/2005
Rendering audio in .wmv format
I was wondering if it was possible to render audio at higher Kbps than what is offered on the templates (in .wmv format). What are you seeing? I see 440 kbps, 48 kHz, 24 bit, Constant Bit Rate for stereo. If that's not high enough might I suggest a non compressed or lossless compression format such as .wav or .pca. The reason for compressed formats is to reduce filesize for delivery. What are you intending to do? MJ
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Audioon 2/19/2005
Locking or sticking extra audio track to video
I am highlighting the video and audio track, plus the extra audio track that I place below it. Wouldn't this be highlighting all the events No that's highlighting/selecting the tracks. You must select the events in the tracks themselves by clicking on the first event in the first track then shift-clicking on the last event in the third track assuming you have 3 tracks, the first being a video track and the second and third being audio tracks. Then right-click over the highlighted events > Group > Create New or press "G". Or if all you have is these tracks and these tracks contain the events you want to group then you can Edit > Select > All. The key here is you are grouping "events", you can't group "tracks". MJ
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Audioon 2/19/2005
Locking or sticking extra audio track to video
You have to highlight all the events to group not the tracks. MJ
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Audioon 2/19/2005
5.1 sound in vegas not work... help~
Render your video using MPEG-2, change the template to DVD-A video stream (NTSC or PAL depending on your region). Then render the audio using AC-3.. If the audio is just music, use the Music template Click the Custom button On the Audio Service page, Set the Audio coding mode to 3/2 and enable LFE. On the Pre-processing page set the Dynamic range compressions to None. If the audio is dialog and music and the music is most important to you; Use the 5.1 template. Click the Custom button. On the Audio Service page, set the Dialog Normalization to -31. On the Pre-processing page set the Dynamic range compressions to None. If you name both files the same name and save both streams to the same folder, when you drop the video in DVD-A it should grab the audio automatically. Every once in a while it doesn't for me, If not add it manually. MJ
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Videoon 2/12/2005
easy
"What is" a BLT. MJ
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Videoon 2/12/2005
easy
Ah! Vegas Jeopardy! I'll take Color Correction for $800 Alex. MJ
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Audioon 2/2/2005
Recording Several Instruments Separate Tracks
For reliability, you need a cardbuss or firewire audio interface and a fast (7200 RPM) HDD especially since the OS and audio drive will be one in the same. Unfortunately most laptops have 5400 RPM or less HDDs. MJ
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Audioon 2/2/2005
reducing wind noise
While NR 2 is awesome at what it does namely removing constant narrow spectrum noise it will fail miserably (as anything else would too) at removing wind noise or any other wide and varied spectrum noise such as crowd noise, coughing, cheering and other ambiant noise. Even ambiant echo, in reality concidered "impossible" can be reduced with convolution verbs such as Acoustic Mirror using totally dead impulses like "carpeted bedroom" types may be improved at best. Wind noise is more "impossible" yet. The sad truth is there is no real way to address this type of noise in post. One must take pains during the recording process to avoid such problems with close micing, wind socks etc.. MJ
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Audioon 2/1/2005
no sound
Don't expect uninstalling the codec pack to allow you to open DivX files (in .avi wrappers) in Vegas. If you insist on editing DivX files in Vegas you should go to the DivX site (divx.com or org) and do some research there. This just about exhausts my knowledge of DivX, I don't have a need for it. MJ
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Videoon 2/1/2005
What Video Format / Compression Scheme Should I use?
I generally use the 512 kbps template without changing any parameters for Video greeting cards. The results are quite good even Fullscreen but the filesize will double (approx. 4 MB/min.). Most are right around a minute so most can live with that. For longer videos (web delivery) I have to drop to the 256 kbps template. I tried Microsoft's WM 9 Encoder since some say the results are better but that's not what I found. MJ
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Audioon 2/1/2005
Save Capture audio files as wav formats
You don't do anything with .sfk files at all, they are for Vegas to use when you launch it to display the waveform in the track. You should go to the Movie Maker forum for your other questions, this is Vegas, Vegas doesn't have "Make a Movie". MJ
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Audioon 2/1/2005
no sound
First, both these formats are compressed delivery formats (DivX & MP3). Vegas is an editor intended to work with editing formats such as .wav & .avi (video for windows not highly compressed video formats under the AVI wrapper such as DivX or Xvid). Mpeg, wma, wmv, rma and others are also highly compressed formats. Editing these types of compressed formats will further degrade these files as they get recompressed upon render. That aside, is this the same file that you started this thread about? I see you have a similar thread on the video forum where you include some files open with just video and some with just audio. This file seems the audio should open but not the video since it's DivX. Even then, I once installed one of those "all in one" codec packs on one of my boxes only to find to my horror when I launched VirtualDub that the DivX 3 codec was a hacked version. I immediately uninstalled the pack for that reason plus I was experiencing odd behavior in WMP on normal (not DivX) files such as the video going all florescent green or fuchsia immediately after installing the pack. Uninstalling solved it so it seems certain that was the cause. That was the end of my DivX days, the funny thing was, it wasn't even the DivX codec I was interested in when I got the codec pack. MJ
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Audioon 2/1/2005
no sound
What does Gspot say the format for the audio of this file that won't play is? For video, Vegas uses VFW (Video For Windows) codecs not DirectShow decompression as WMP does. MJ
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Audioon 2/1/2005
no sound
Google "Gspot", it's a free utility that will tell you what the audio and video stream formats are within the AVI wrapper, what codecs are needed and if you have them installed. MJ
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Audioon 2/1/2005
NUVTwain.dll not found when Vegas 5.0 launched
This seems to be a .dll that comes from either a Hauppage or a Dazzle card. Seems as either you uninstalled/removed either and part of it was left behind for Vegas to see but the .dll is not there to complete the routine. MJ
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Audioon 1/31/2005
How Do I Output Recorded Mono Sound to Stero?
Right-click on the track header > Duplicate Track. Right-click the event in each track > Channels > Right Only or Combine. Now pan each track right and left, you pay also want to right-click the pan fader and select Constant power. You won't have true stereo since it wasn't recorded as such but it will feed both speakers. Alternatively you could skip the "Duplicate Track step thes stop with "Combine" and have a mono track feeding both speakers. MJ
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Videoon 1/29/2005
Adjusting audio channels independently
these two extra steps will add considerable time to the process Not from my point of view, these steps take less than a blink here and offer complete control including buss routing and independent FX. Seems like a small price to pay in the long run considering audio is at least 70% of video. Vegas was a MTR first so it's overview is going to be MTR audio track based. Unfortunately you will have to adapt to how the software works rather than trying to make the software adapt to you. I just can't get DOS to function like Windows try as I might. Embrace it's power, it'll set you free. MJ.
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Audioon 1/29/2005
posting mixes for critique?
Which tracks are real players and which tracks are loops? Obviously the vocals are real, what other tracks are? MJ
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Videoon 1/29/2005
my First Vegas Infomercial - NEW Version
I have WMP 10, Win XP Pro on this machine. I even moved it to my faster (second 7200 RPM WD drive) to check, same results. True, this is my internet PC, an Athlon 550 mHz with 512 SD-RAM, not the fastest but I've never seen this before. I'm sure other's that visit your site will have slower PCs. MJ
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Videoon 1/29/2005
What is a normal distribution deal?
That was entirely uncalled for pmasters. I've seen Spot spend much time answering your questions (as many others) in a very civil way even if his take is 180 degrees from the poster's. While he may disagree or be disagreed with, has never resorted to... shall we say ethnic low blows. He's been nothing but cordial in every post of his I've seen even though some he totally disagrees with the poster including myself or the reverse. I've been sympathetic to your much of your grief and agreed with some of your political statements but attacking Spot in such a way is distasteful and discrediting.. MJ P.S. If you think clamping down on porn is going to save society, you're mistaken. Do you really think those that crave porn, if made unavailable (impossible) that actually commit crimes based for some reason on porn (if that's actually possible) wouldn't if porn paraphernalia was obliterated?
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Videoon 1/29/2005
my First Vegas Infomercial - NEW Version
Nice job other than I get a huge lag between audio and video. I haven't seen this happen before with other vids I've downloaded, oh yeah, it's the downloaded WMV version as I'm on dial-up. The audio is quite a bit ahead of the video. Anyone else seeing this? MJ
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Videoon 1/29/2005
VST plugins
Not natively to date but you can use a wrapper. MJ
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Audioon 1/29/2005
How widely available is PCA support?
Bob, like you I value PCA tremendously. This is why I keep asking for the option when using Copy and trim media to select PCA. This would make archiving projects to CD/DVD so much easier/efficient. As far as I know, only SF/Sony apps. support PCA, it's proprietary so whether Sony would expose it to others only they can answer. Further than that since Sonic Foundry was/is Win based, it would seem cross-platform would entirely relate to other vendor's interest in the format and Sony's policy. Also it seems "compression" these days is less of a priority with the availability of large capacity storage media at reasonable rates. But... only Sony can answer this question but like you I'm interested. A 50% lossless filesize reduction still appeals to me. MJ
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