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  • Scrub with Shuttle Xpress

    Posted by Bill Cortez on March 5, 2009 at 7:32 am

    I just hooked up a Shuttle Xpress to Vegas Pro 8. I can scan through the video frame by frame with the jog wheel. Can I set up the jog wheel to scrub audio frame by frame, or at least a really slow speed? Thanks, Bill.

    Robby Huang replied 17 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • John Rofrano

    March 5, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    No, not frame-by-frame. The inner jog wheel scrubs frames silently. This is a Vegas limitation of frame scrubbing.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Bill Cortez

    March 5, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Thanks John, that’s a serious limitation in my opinion. Every other edit system I’ve used (AVID, Premeire, Sony DNE 700) have audio frame scrubbing. I’m bummed. Bill.

  • Douglas Spotted eagle

    March 5, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Click/hold the Rate slider in the lower left. Not as convenient as the shuttle pro, but it works.

    Douglas Spotted Eagle
    VASST

    Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
    Aerial Camera/Instructor

  • John Rofrano

    March 5, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    > Every other edit system I’ve used (AVID, Premeire, Sony DNE 700) have audio frame scrubbing.

    Yea it’s not that you can’t do audio scrubbing in Vegas. It’s just that you can’t assign it to a key and so can’t automate it with the Shuttle Pro. As Douglas said, you can drag the rate slider or you can click the CTI and drag it across the timeline with the mouse to scrub back and forth. You just can’t do it with a key stroke.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

  • Bill Cortez

    March 6, 2009 at 4:29 am

    Thanks guys for your help. I’ve been scrubbing by dragging the mouse, using the J,K,L keys, and by zooming in and using the audio peaks. All those methods work, but I can’t zero in on a precise audio frame as quickly as I can with a jog wheel, or with frame-by-frame cursor control with a key stroke. I’m a news photographer/editor and speed is critical. Basically, I want to be able to do with the audio what I can do with the video–move one frame at a time and “hear” the sound. I’ll have to get used to it. Thanks again for the quick response to my question. Bill.

  • Robby Huang

    May 16, 2009 at 5:05 am

    This to me is an unbelievably big flaw in the program. Any chance of Version 9 adding support for frame by frame audio scrub?

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