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Vegas Pro (9e) shows sound but I hear no sound
Hello All,
I have two HP Pavilion towers on which I use to edit video, each has a legal, licensed copy of Vegas Pro 9e installed. They have worked flawlessly delivering solid performance for the production of hundreds of clips.
Then, recently, I moved. Just down the street. I set up my towers in my new residence, I fire up Vegas Pro 9e on either of them, load a video file and when I play it in the timeline, I see there is sound playing, I see the waveform in the audio track…but I hear nothing. Render the clip, no sound.
Before you say anything, here’s the weird part:
The towers WORKED perfectly prior to the move, in fact, my last project was a massive 3-day editing binge in which I produced 47 clips.
I tried these exact same video files on my laptop, also VP 9e-equipped, and I HEAR SOUND. I can render the clip…AND IT HAS SOUND. Downside is, the Lappy is not the ideal machine for video work, and I use it for my web development.
I CHANGED NOTHING on the towers. Just put them in the truck and drove them from my old residence to my new one. Video files, everything else is the SAME.
And one tower is System 7, one is XP Pro SP3, and the Lappy is XP Pro SP3 (and it’s the only one that works).
While on the road last week, I borrowed an older Dell PC tower and installed the trial version of Vegas Pro 9 on it, also an XP Pro SP3 machine. Guess what? I got sound both on the timeline and on the rendered clip of the SAME files that will not play on my two towers at home on which I have this problem, the ones which used to work.
The speakers on my towers work fine. It’s JUST in Vegas Pro 9e that I have this problem.
This has to be some weird, simple thing that can be fixed. I’m a coder also so I know how one small thing that is easy to overlook can stop development dead in its tracks.
A little background, I have been editing using Sony Vegas Pro 9 for over a year and change, most of the editing taking place on these two towers that have now gone problematic on me. I LOVE Sony Vegas, it works perfect for me and it is fast. Likewise, HP towers have given me the best reliability. I’m just stymied by this odd problem.
Thus, as this is part of my livelihood, I am crippled until I can fix this.
Any ideas would be warmly received. I am grateful to have found this forum here on Creative Cow.
Thank you in advance!
Sincerely,
Keith Henderson
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I assume you checked the simple things, like playing the clip in media player and your speakers are playing properly.
There have been couple of times when I have not had sound and it took a while to find it.
1. I had an audio track (with no audio) solo button pushed, which gave no sound during preview and after render.
2. For some reason, unknown to me, my project audio setting went to 44 khz, and of course I was using 48 khz audio from my video. In this case, it played in preview, but would render with no sound.
3. The switch in the particular event was set to mute.
John Lenihan
John Lenihan
LeniCam Video Productions
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John,
Yes, the computer speakers work fine on both machines with this problem. I can play Cds, sound files and whatnot. Just the clips I now render on these machines have no sound
When I render on these machines, I get no sound from the clips when I play them back in Windows Movie Player.
The clips have the audio track, I can see it with the waveform, the mute button, when pushed, changes the color of the audio track, and I have discerned that the mute button is not on.
The sound will not play in preview, but I can see the main sound meter bouncing away. So it’s like Vegas can’t communicate to my towers’ speakers, but what’s stranger is that it now renders with no sound as well.
I also just checked the Solo button, nothing there, and my audio properties are set at 44,100, which must be a default because my laptop, which does play sound and render with sound, is also set at 44,100.
Thank you for your suggestions though, I am certain I can get this figured out, it’s just that this is keeping me from working. I wonder if I should try uninstalling and reinstalling VP9?
Many sincere thanks,
Keith Henderson
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UPDATE
I seem to have fixed this problem, but what remains a mystery is why my two HP towers were acting up and why my laptop and the older Dell machine I tried last week did not exhibit this behavior.
More details:
I shoot with a Sony EX-1 and when I shot some test video, I only had one of the stereo mics turned on.Again, on the two HP towers, the sound, when set to Center, would not play. On the laptop and the older Dell, they WOULD.
So, I played with the Pan in the audio track on the HP towers, and there’s my audio. I set the channels setting to Left Only and bang, I now have sound.
WHAT’S ODD:
The Laptop and the older Dell tower still played the audio WITHOUT having to alter the pan or the channel settings.Any suggestions on this anomaly? I realize it doesn’t matter now since I have my audio back, but I’m still curious as to why two machines behave differently than they did before I moved.
Many thanks!
Sincerely,
Keith Kenderson
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Sounds like a cosmic pothole was in the neighborhood…
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Hey, I’m having a similar problem as well. I have had Sony Vegas Pro 10 for a while now and never had the problem. basically, when I import clips from my Canon Vixia HF M300, the audio peaks are built fine, the audio meters are moving proving that there is audio, however I cannot hear anything. The mute button is not on either.
Here’s a snapshot of what it looks like…
2473_sonyvegasaudiosnapshot.docx.zip
Thanks,
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