Some questions about Sound Forge in you Vegas +DVD workflow?

[Tevya Washburn]

Just thought of something else: does Sound Forge have surround mixing/encoding. I know Audition does.

–the Fiddler

[Ted Snow]

Vegas has surround sound capabilities. Vegas is one of the best audio editors around in my opinion.

[Allen Zagel]

Vegas will handle most of your audio needs. I have Sound Forge + Sony’s Noise reduction plug-in. Yea, expensive. For the few times you may need a seperate audio program, you can right click on the sound track and open it directly into Sound Forge. Don’t know if you can do it with Audition.

Sony’s noise removal program was a bear for me to learn. I’ve seen some videos on Audition and personally if I were going to buy one today, I’d probably look really close at Audition, because the noise removal is included……

But then I found out about an open source Audaccity
https://audacity.sourceforge.net/

…and that changed my whole outlook.

Allen

ASX Media Productions
https://www.asxvideo.com

[Jerry Waters]

What I like about the two together is if you click on “open a copy in Sound Forge” and edit it, when you hit “Save” it will insert the edited material as a “take” and then in Vegas you can right click that clip and choose that or a different “take” you want. (The saved file is automatically inserted as the take in use.)

JerryW

[Tevya Washburn]

Thanks guys. Anyone else want to weigh in?

I’m familiar with Audacity, but it’s fairly limited in its abilities, or was last time I used it….

–the Fiddler

[Anoni Moose]

[JerryW] “What I like about the two together is if you click on “open a copy in Sound Forge” and edit it, when you hit “Save” it will insert the edited material as a “take” and then in Vegas you can right click that clip and choose that or a different “take” you want. (The saved file is automatically inserted as the take in use”

I think it does the same thing if you configure Vegas 6 to use some other external editor such as Audition [formerly Cool-Edit Pro]. In the options, an external audio editor can be configured instead of Sound Forge. The vegas menu won’t have the program’s name (will be a generic reference) like it would with Sound Forge, but I recall it works the same way.

[Josh Meredith]

I’ve used just about every version of Cool Edit, Pro & otherwise, until it turned into Audition. I also use Sound Forge. I’ve got them both on my Vegas computer, and use both a lot. I find Cool Edit to be much better for extremely detailed editing of the waveform, such as removing breaths, etc.. However, that is probably more personal preference than something lacking in Sound Forge. I rarely use Cool Edit’s multitrack function anymore, since I started using Vegas.

I do love Soundforge for some things, though, like EQ and other filters. Last night I used it’s paragraphic EQ to remove an occasional low end rumble during an interview that I couldn’t seem to isolate with Cool Edit’s EQ.

Cool Edit’s (and Audition’s) noise reduction works a lot better for me, too. Sound Forge claims to have NR, and I’ve messed with it on several occasions, but I can’t figure it out. Which is strange, because usually when I’m using software that I can’t figure out even after many attempts, it comes from Adobe!

[Tevya Washburn]

LOL! I hear that man. Though I do prefer Photoshop to any other image editor. Well that’s good to know. I just might have to go back to CoolEdit just for comfort’s sake. I dunno though, maybe for now I’ll just make due with Audacity and wait ’till the come out with the next version of both those packages.

–the Fiddler