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  • Crossfading two audio tracks??

    Posted by Andy Green on March 12, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    Sorry, I see a lot of similar questions but not this one.

    Can I crossfade two disticnt audio tracks? Not events on the same timeline, but two separate tracks? In Premiere, I could grab the centerline of each audio track (in the waveform itself) and drag it higher or lower as I needed to. I can’t figure out how to do this in Vegas.

    I am trying to overlay a second audio track on my main track in some places in my production, but keep them both playing.

    Thanks! Andy

    Andy Green replied 17 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Steven Talley

    March 13, 2009 at 2:53 am

    If you want to control the volume of two tracks playing at the same time, Go to the Insert Menu and add the audio envelope and pick volume to each track. Right click on the audio track to assign points on the volume level bar that can be set at different volumes. Panning is done this way also.

  • Terry Esslinger

    March 13, 2009 at 6:54 am

    You just add a second audio track under the first audio track. Thet will both play and you can control the volume of each track. In fact you will have to because digital audio is addative and you will quickly overdrive to distortion.

  • Andy Green

    March 13, 2009 at 11:19 am

    OK, thanks. I am going to check this out and see if I can fiind the things you are describing.

    I do see the audio volume, but couldn’t figure out how to use that for just portions of the track. It sounds like I need to figure out how to mark it with these points.

    Thanks.

  • Andy Green

    March 13, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Yes, I got to that point. I even figured out how to fade in and out of the second track. I just couldn’t find the way to control the individual volume levels for just the overlapped segments of audio and not the whole track. Gonna try the suggestion above.

  • Steven Talley

    March 13, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    “If you want to control the volume of two tracks playing at the same time, Go to the Insert Menu and add the audio envelope and pick volume to each track. Right click on the audio track to assign points on the volume level bar that can be set at different volumes. Panning is done this way also.”

    Be sure to click on the audio track first, then go to insert menu (PS This is in Vegas 7) Do this for each audio track.

  • Andy Green

    March 15, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    This worked perfectly, and simple too. You can rubberband the audio just like I used to be able to do when I was using Premiere. Thanks!

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