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surplus tracks when importing a clip.
HI, when importing a new clip in Sony Vegas the clip has a 2nd surplus audio track underneath the normal audio one, overlapping additional audio tracks. If I delete the 2nd surplus audio track of the imported clip whole clip gets deleted. Please advice me how to import a normal 1 video/1 audio clip only, everything went fine till something I can’t figure must have been changed, that screws all.
Have all a nice week-end.
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Can you provide a screenshot?
Do you mean that there’s a completely separate audio track in addition to the regular one?
How are you capturing (firewire or some other method)?
What kind of footage are you capturing? -
Thank you MIKE, always very kind… How can I provide you a screen shot? I import a regular clip from my p.c. folders, I cannot see the meaning of “firewire” method, sorry MIKE…, clicking the “open” yellow folder upper left, and additional 3-5 AUDIO tracks pop up underneath the normal single ONE, obstructing my audio track that contains the film music. Deleting all surplus tracks works (but it’s not a normal situation!!!), only the 1st additional ONE once I delete him all footage gets deleted.
I’m capturing (you mean importing?) m2ts AVCHD files, it worked perfect up to this day. -
Peter, to provide a screenshot, click the “Image upload” icon just above the reply screen (3rd from the right) and follow the prompts.
That probably won’t be necessary though as I suspect that what you’re importing is a 5.1 clip and not a stereo one.
Is your project set to stereo or 5.1 audio?
I don’t deal with AVCHD files here so all of this is a stab in the dark for me. -
Hey MIKE, Yes! you solved it – your instinct is accurate =), experimenting in Properties audio tab I changed the “stereo” to “5.1 surround”.
You made me curious to ask you, a professional, if no AVCHD what type of files you work with?
Also, the “5.1” audio is better sounding then the “stereo” one?Thank you again MIKE, another kind help from you!
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Peter, I’m glad to hear that my guess turned out to be correct.
The community college I work for still has (due to budget constraints) broadcast-grade miniDV camcorders.
They are good ones ($20K when originally purchased several years ago) so we work with what we have.
This means that I’m still standard definition 4:3 when the rest of the world is high-def 16:9 🙁
5.1 (aka surround sound) should, in theory anyway, sound better.
Audio is not my strength so I leave that to my co-worker who is an audio engineer. -
Thank you, MIKE.
Fully enjoy the week-end!
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