ducker

[Mike Kujbida]

I have no ideas about a ducker but there’s a PPM meter as part of the Blue Cat’s Freeware Plugins Pack.
Be sure to read and follow the Using DXi plug-ins in Sony Vegas tutorial.

From their site:
This tutorial will teach you how to use any DXi plug-in in Sony Vegas. Sony Vegas does not support MIDI automation, so if your plug-in supports the MIDI Dxi protocol, it is removed from the plug-ins list, and you cannot use it!

[Edward Troxel]

Also, have you tried the Voice Over tool in Excalibur? It can actually use the output from one of the Blue Cat tools mentioned by Mike. But remember that scripts cannot see audio levels so if some tool like the Blue Cat tool is not used, the “silent” areas must be deleted from the timeline.

There’s a demo video of the Voice Over tool at http://www.jetdv.com/excalibur

Edward Troxel

[John Culleton]

that almost works Ed, but as you say i have to delete silence, which Blue Cat tool do i use to avoid that then?

[Edward Troxel]

The Blue Cat tool will create an envelope that Excalibur can use for ducking purposes. However, it REQUIRES that you PLAY the timeline first to create the envelope. I believe the demo video shows that in operation as well.

Edward Troxel

[John Culleton]

hmmmn, almost there, but i don’t have an option for track automation with the Blue Cat effect?

[Edward Troxel]

The automation access is described in the Excalibur manual. The “Configure FX Automation” button is the one in the top right-hand corner of the dialog box. When you click that, you get several options that can be turned on. Playing the timeline will then set the envelope.

Edward Troxel

[John Culleton]

took a while but i’m there, thx all this will save me HOURS… last show (2 hours) took six hours to mix FX and VO, this script will probably do it while i make cuppa tea, probably don’t always need the Blue Cat envelope as the vo’s will be cut, great script!!!