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Puzzled about audio effects
I haven’t still read all the section in the manual about audio filters or effects, but for what I can tell so far, the way Vegas works in regards to audio effects applied to single events is pretty lousy. For example, in Final Cut Pro, Premiere, etc, you can simply apply an audio filter to a single event and it’s not done in a destructive way, if you don’t want it there anymore or if you want to change its parameters later you can.
But in Vegas, either you apply these effects in a non-destructive way to all the track, or you apply them to the events you need but then it forces you to save the modified event as a wav file, so it’s destructive, because other than an immediate undo, if later you want to re-adjust the audio effect you can’t, you have to find the source clip, trim it again and then apply the effect again.
I don’t understand what’s the purpose of this. Why didn’t they program it in the same way as the video filters are applied, in a non-destructive way that you can later either delete or re-adjust? Am I missing something here?
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[Sebastian Alvarez] “I haven’t still read all the section in the manual about audio filters or effects, but for what I can tell”
You have made some assumptions without really reading hte manual and understanding the Vegas way. You are trying to run it like Final Cut or Premiere. All this will do is frustrate you.
Many of the audio filters can be automated in Vegas using keyframes. This allows you to bring effect in and out.
That is non-destructive. You can also highlight a section of the waveform and send that section out to an audio editor as a copy, make changes and then save it. Vegas then updates the timeline with your updated as a take. If you don’t like the new version, highlight the event and hit the t key and you are now back to the original version.I would recommend picking up some of the training materials
for Vegas at VASST.com. You can come up to speed quickly
with their DVD’s and books.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377
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