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Question about Sound in Vegas 5.0
I have a problem with Sony Vegas 5.0. I just got a new Panasonic DVX-100a and I took some footage and dropped it into Vegas. I have previously worked with another Samsung camera and had a problem with the sound. It seems that when I drop the footage into the editing program I only get right channel audio ONLY. The left channel is pretty much static-y air with an occasional blip in sound. Now I just assumed it was the boom mic I was using on the Samsung that was causing this to happen. Now the footage that I dropped into Vegas with the DVX is doing the EXACT SAME THING!!! I haven’t even used a boom mic I was just going on the internal stereo mic that comes with the camera. I checked all the settings on the camera and NOTHING. Still no right channel audio. Everything on the camera is set to record normally with the mic. I’m hoping you guys can help me out here since I have NO IDEA what is going on. I’m guessing it’s a setting on Vegas that I’m missing but I have no idea what I could have done wrong…I pretty much use the default settings (with the exception today of changing it to 24p and not the 29p setting it comes pre-set to). Please tell me I’m just a big dumbass and I’m totally skipping over something simple and all the work I’ve had to do on all my shorts (dropping it into Sound Forge to copy and paste the Right Channel onto the Left amongst other things). Thank you for your help and I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours…
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5 Replies
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How are you capturing into Vegas? Firewire, I hope.
I shot some stuff a few weeks ago with a DVX-100 and got both channels of audio. -
I captured on Firewire…sorry I forgot to include that. Yeah I ONLY capture on firewire. I think the card is working right. I’ve gotten both channels before on it…I hope it’s not the cable itself…despite the odds I HAVE had a dud cable before. Any ideas?
Truth
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Don’t know the cause, but you don’t need to use Sound Forge to put one channel on both stereo sides, Right click > Channels > Right Only.
When recording or playing back in camera, can you hear sound on both sides of headphones?
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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Ok here’s what I got so far. I don’t have any headphones for the camera yet so I can’t really tell you whether or not there is a problem. I can it set on the default BOTH channel option. When I look at it I get the 2 lines of audio. The top one has audio and the bottom one has nothing. The right channel is putting out audio and the left nothing. Now when I choose the different options I get this. Right Channel only (like you had suggested) gives me NOTHING. Which is really weird. Left Channel only gives me audio in both speakers. Combine does the same thing only it’s not as well defined peaks as it is on Left channel only. So I ask you this guys….WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING WRONG HERE?!?!?!?!? I’m getting really frustrated with Vegas right now. Thanks for all the help.
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The reason you need to listen to your camera playback is to try and identify at what stage the problem is happening. It only costs $5 to buy a small set of headphones – suggest you do that.
If you can hear sound on both channels from the camera tape, then something is happening in the capture process. To find whether Vegas is playing a part in this, you can try capturing with a different program, e.g. Windows Movie Maker – part of XP.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au
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