printing to tape gives distorted audio

[Videocool]

[Arthur] “Very strange problem: I captured video from another camera then usual. The audio is 32 khz. The clips play fine from the timeline, sound good. But when I print to tape the audio is very distorted.
The distortion is only in the audio of those captured clips (other audio, like cd tracks or other videoclips prints good).
strange thing: when I set the audio-channels in the problematic clips to Left-only or Right-only, the distortion at print-to-tape disappears.
And what puzzles me most: if I render all the audio to a new track (in 32kHz or 48kHz project) and solo that new track, the audio again plays fine from the timeline, but is still distorted over the problematic clips.

I’ve been troubleshooting it for quite some time. It happens in Vegas 5 as well as 6.
There seems to be a fault in the media that only appears when it is played back to the camera through firewire.
What can this be?”

Hey there…

I’ll take a go at this problem…

You might check your audio levels on these clips… Set the Master Audio Levels to View… and make sure you aren’t hitting the red… often times summing two tracks will increase the levels just enough to push it over the line.

If that is the case Normalize those clips (you may have to Split them at the spots just before and after the audio is peaking), or put the audio on a seperate track and set the levels manually… With your experience you may have already tried these things, but I often forget simple stuff too…

Good Luck
Steve

Sony VX-1000 and others, P4 3gHz,
3000 Gigabytes Online(Not Enough), AMD64 laptop, Vegas+DVD-Architect, ReelDVD, DVFILM, Lightwave, Photoshop, Independent Production Since 1985

[Arthur Bueno]

thanks for thinki9ng with me steve.
Levels are ok, thats not the point,

[Videocool]

[Arthur] “thanks for thinki9ng with me steve.
Levels are ok, thats not the point,

[Arthur Bueno]

Yes i’ll try that, or maybe I can get the original camera again to try printing back to tape.