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Vegas Pro 11 Surround Sound Center Channel Prob
In my Vegas Pro 11 video project, I am using 5.1 surround sound. I have a 48kHz, 24-bit uncompressed stereo wav audio file that I’m trying to use in the center channel, but Vegas isn’t having it. The file *is* audible if I place it in the front channels or rear channels, but I get no audio when I place it in the center channel’s track of my project. My first thought is that maybe the center channel only likes mono, but no, it plays other stereo wav files I place in it – 44kHz, 16-bit; 48kHz, 16-bit. I tried changing the “bad” wav over to 16-bit – didn’t make a difference. I’ve tried changing it over to an AC3 file, still won’t play in the center channel. What am I doing wrong?
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I’m wondering if the two channels are out of phase, and if you are getting significant canceling when you try to combine them into one channel of audio. What happens if you use only the left or right channel of the file in question?
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Do you mean once the file is in the center audio track? I tried taking the little yellow surround sound diamond all the way left and all the way right; no sound either way.
What I will try tonight is render just the audio file off Vegas, then load that back in to the center track. I have created sound effects that way before and it always worked.
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Ok. Last night I rendered the audio file off of Vegas as a stereo file and then as a mono file (both as wavs). No success in getting Vegas to play it through the center track. The little visual graph that shows audio peaks and levels over to the right of the screen shows a pitiful little jumping when I playback the files, but still no audio comes through the speakers.
If it helps anybody to know this, the original file came from a Tascam DR-07mkII PCM digital recorder. I recorded the output straight from a mixer. The signal was stereo, my cables were stereo. The only thing I can think of is I’m trying to put a stereo signal into a mono channel. But no, that can’t be it, as I’ve converted the file to mono and it still won’t play. Does anyone have any ideas?
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