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audio editing question
I export the audio into audacity for editing, then create a file to hold the edited audio before importing it back into Vegas. That is awkward and time consuming, is there an easier more direct way to get the edited sound back on the timeline and perfectly synced with the video?
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Why aren’t you doing your audio editing in Vegas?
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HI. the reply was “why not do audio editing in Vegas”. I’ll reply that I have used audacity for many years and know the program very well. Vegas is rather new and I’d rather tackle one new program at a time. I definitely want to learn all about Vegas but at a more comfortable pace. When I retired the computer Commodore 64K, was just a toy for playing pack man
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OK, I can appreciate that you want to use tools that you’re comfortable with.
You didn’t say if you’re using Pro or Movie Studio so I’m not sure if this technique will work with Movie Studio (I use Pro).
Set Audacity as your preferred audio editor (Options – Preferences – Audio).
Load a project (call it MyProject for ease of use here), right click on an audio event and choose “Open Copy in Audio Editor“.
Make sure to use the Open Copy option (you’ll see why in a moment).
Do your desired editing, save it and go back to Vegas.
You’ll see that the modified audio has been added as a Take over top of your existing audio event and saved to your project as MyProject Take 2.wav
You can switch back and forth from source to new audio by clicking the audio event and pressing the T (for Take) key.
The beauty of using the Copy mode is that your source audio is untouched. -
Thanks, I’ll give it a try. Your help was precise and timely, thanks, ed
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Glad to help Ed.
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commodore. Havent heard that name for a while.
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I have been doing this for a long time but suddenly file size has become a problem, it never was before. In fact I’ve been editing 8 hour audio files in audacity for many years. I use the frequency analyzing feature to identify bat’s sonar. This morning Vegas refused to send a 6 hour audio file to audacity, that’s never happened before, an error code said file too large. I’ve used audacity successfully for 12 hour files. I’ve only recently used audio and video together and it seemed to work fine at first. If I try reloading Sony may refuse to let me reload Vegas 11 like they did with Vegas 7. I might try reloading audacity, perhaps a corrupted file.
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