External Audio Editor

[Nick White]

OK. Yes it may be different.

What were your exact steps? I am getting something weird here.

I have my 5.1 Audio, grouped or not, and I select all _Audio_ events, individually, to make sure I avoid the Video. Then I Tools->Audio….and Open in External Editor is greyed out. So is Open Copy.

But if I then right click on the selected Audio events (or one of them), the External Editor option is _not_ greyed out, but the attempt fails with Audacity, or I get the video stream as well if I use SF and an avi file. Audacity always tries to open a video file and fails.

The only way I can see to get only audio out is to render to audio then work on it, in whatever Audio editor I choose. Of course SF Studio only allows one stereo track to be played at once, so it is of questionable use.

So I have either SF Studio, with only a stereo track playable at once, but with a video stream, or Audacity that does not do the video at all, so I can only work in Audio.

Sounds like I stay in Vegas for most work, then get SONAR cranked up for sync work.

Bill Meyers shows that you have to do the render. He _seems_ to know what hew is talking about where V Studio is concerned.

[Mark Barton]

[Nick White] “I have my 5.1 Audio, grouped or not, and I select all _Audio_ events, individually, to make sure I avoid the Video. Then I Tools->Audio….and Open in External Editor is greyed out. So is Open Copy.
I get the same as you with the above steps.

But if I then right click on the selected Audio events (or one of them), the External Editor option is _not_ greyed out, but the attempt fails with Audacity, or I get the video stream as well if I use SF and an avi file. Audacity always tries to open a video file and fails.”
This is where Audacity displays six audio tracks for me. I don’t get the error here, although I would rather edit a single track at a time. After watching Sony’s recent Webinar on the mixing console, I am more apt to use Vegas’s audio tools.

[Nick White]

OK. By this stage I was on a discover-why journey. 😀 So the vagaries shall remain just that for now AFAIAC.

I will look at Vegas’s own stuff. I love exploring audio stuff anyway. It’s been my main joy for many years.

Nick