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5.1 automation master + AVCHD LFE is missing
Hi guys,
I am trying to edit AVCHD video with Vegas 8.0b. My camera creates 5.1 sound and I wish to mix music or other audio with the original sound and keep the 5.1 output.
Ideally, I would have a single automatable slider which controls *all* the original 6 channels’ volume together, and another slider for the music, so I could simply set the envelopes for both and then mix these together in the 5.1 output. My problem is that I could not find a way to do that so far. Per-track volume envelopes work, but as I cannot copy envelopes between tracks it is tedious to repeat setting up the volume envelope for all the 4 tracks (FL+FR, C, LFE, SL+SR) for the proper mixing.
I tried setting up busses and assignable FX chains, but the problem is their output looks like being stereo and when I assign them back to the master bus the 5.1 sound is lost on the output.
Is it a way to control automation settings of separate track plug-ins centrally? Or is it possible to solve this most basic problem somehow else?
My other problem is that when I import my Panasonic AVCHD .mts files into Vegas, everything works fine except that the LFE channel is always empty. Other conversions are capable of extracting the LFE from the original AC3 stream in the MPEG-TS, so it should be there. Is it a bug or a feature?
Best,
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I have the same issue except my video was shot on a Sony HDRSR12E. I tried some experimenting, adding an LFE and re-importing and Vegas is clearly not importing the LFE channel although the original plays back on a PS3 fine.
I also can’t get Vegas to Render to an AVHCD for anything more than a few mins of footage which I think is the Quad processor issue – I was hanging on for the next release hoping it fixes that one.
Steve
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