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Assigning audio to certain tracks
Is there a way to assign where audio will be placed when inserting it from the trimmer with video? Just like in Avid or Premier Pre you can easily assign what tracks the audio goes to when adding video at the same time. Instead with Vegas, if you add video to a new track with audio, it will add 2 new audio tracks(I import stereo as dual mono). The only way I know around this is to add video only then click on the track where I want my audio to go, go to trimmer to switch it to only add audio, then drop the audio in. It’s not very handy doing it this way(maybe I’m missing something??) I hope they address this function on the next version.
I’m using Pro9.0eJames
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Well, I have never used the trimmer, preferring to do all my editing on the timeline. I just click-drag the audio to wherever I want it. (You will likely need to ungroup the audio from the video before you move it, or the video will tag along).
Personally I think that the trimmer is an anachronism that comes from the film – mindset of editing that is perpetuated by the NLE programs that use the film paradigm to make the transition easier. Since I learned editing on Vegas (Version 3), I was not encumbered with the film-mode mindset, and just jumped into the timeline. But that’s just me.
Steve Mann
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Personally I think that the trimmer is an anachronism that comes from the film – mindset of editing that is perpetuated by the NLE programs that use the film paradigm to make the transition easier. Since I learned editing on Vegas (Version 3), I was not encumbered with the film-mode mindset, and just jumped into the timeline. But that’s just me.
I couldn’t have said it better… I’ve been using Vegas for 8 years since Vegas Video 3 in 2002 and I’ve never found the trimmer to be useful for anything except beat mapping audio files with embedded markers. I work directly on the timeline like you.
If the people who designed NLE’s had created the first word processor, the PC would beep at us when we reached the 80th character and we’d all be pressing the Carriage Return button at the end of each line! Sometimes emulating the real world is the worse design choice you could make.
To answer the original post, I don’t think there’s a way to control other than manually right-click dragging and dropping where you want them.
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I didn’t think there was. Thanks though
James
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