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Stuck on Mute – how does it happen?
I was working with a file, several tracks, and occasionally muting one or the other. One track became “stuck” in mute. The mute button doesn’t affect it and I can’t figure out how to unstick it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
JerryW
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10 Replies
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I know this sounds obvious, but could the volume slider for that track be turned down or a volume envelope pulled down? The mute button would still click on and off but you would not hear audio.
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Another thing to check — do you happen to have “SOLO” selected for any other audio track(s)?
Regards,
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Thanks for the suggestions but I didn’t find the answer. Even when I opened new tracks they came up musted so I finally duplicated a track that wasn’t muted, deleted the events on it and copied the muted ones to the new track. That worked, so I deleted the muted track. I still don’t have a clue as to what it was.
JerryW
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I know sometimes when you normalize an event’s audio, it will go to zero. I have never figured out why one event will normalize and on another event this will happen. I usually just undo it and adjust volume with an envelope.
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[JerryW] “Even when I opened new tracks they came up musted”
Seems like you reset the default track properties which you do by right-clicking the track header and choosing Set Default Track Properties (i.e to current settings).
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Gary, I was creating the new track with the button I added by customizing the toolbar. How could that be track properties?
JerryW
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I am postulating that you’d previously reset the track properties, and therefore each new track will be set that way.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Thanks. That sounds reasonable. Do you have any idea how I could do that without knowing?
JerryW
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My first thought was that perhaps Options – Mute All Audio had been turned on. But adding new tracks that are not muted would seem to eliminate that as a possibility. Perhaps you could send one of us the VEG file and let us see if it behaves the same here.
Edward Troxel
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Something similar has also happened to me in the past. Every now-and-then I will click on a mute button and everything will be muted (it says it is, but it really isn’t), then I unmute it and everything becomes unmuted. I click on the solo button and everthing becomes soloed (again, it says it is soloed, but it really isn’t – everything will play). I end up being able to play around and get it to work right, but I just wanted to let you know that this has happened to me too.
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