any way to import audio with envelopes and nodes?

[Mike Kujbida]

I’m sure there are other methods but here’s the way I would do it.
Have your audio editor mute the video track so that it doesn’t bother him/her but is still there as a reference.
Do the necessary work, save it as something like MyProject-AudioOnly.veg and hand it off to the video editor.
This way, all envelopes and nodes are there if any minor changes are needed.

[Rick Mac]

[TalbotGrad] “Once the audio is done on one computer and vegas project is there any way to import the audio only with envelopes and nodes into another vegas project. (The video will stay the same)”

After the video guys does his cut, pass that veg file to the audio guy. Then after the audio editor does his thing he can mute the video track (tracks) and save the project under “project name_audio” file name. Then the video editor can pull that .veg file into his timeline and there you will have your audio from the audio guy show up as a track on the video editors timeline with all those volume changes effects etc. If later you need to adjust somthing with the audio from the audio guys project you just right click on its track and pick open in Vegas. That will open a new instance of Vegas with the audio guys project (all tracks showing)ready to edit. Make your changes and save. The updates will be applied to your Video guys timeline. This is called nested projects and is very cool. You can also use nested project in the same manner to save graphics, or condence a project with many tracks.

Hope this helps, Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Larry Watts]

Thanks Mike and Rick!

Yourideas will really help! There is a lot of power in
nested projects!

Are they stable? Can you get bitten somehow?

Thanks again

Larry

[Mike Kujbida]

[TalbotGrad] “Are they stable? Can you get bitten somehow?”

Larry, I’ve read the occasional report of nested projects causing grief but overall they work great!!
Since they came out in Vegas 6, I use them all the time.
Having a powerful CPU makes them work even better and faster.

[Rick Mac]

Nesting has worked very well for me without changing any settings. I did have a problem on a very long and complex project when I went to render it. However, DSE managed to fix that problem by having me set the maximunm number of render threads to 1 and setting RAM preview to 0 when I went to render. These two settings are found under the video tab under options or was that prefrences.

I have nested audio portions many times without any problems at all.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377