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very strange audio problem
Hello. I am using v-7 and have a video I opened up which is an avi file, I was editing it and all was going well, when for no apparent reason the audio stopped playing. It still shows in the mixer that it is playing at the same level as before, but nothing comes out of the speakers. I didn’t do anything. I checked to see if the mute all audio had gone on for some reason, but no. If I go back to the start of the avi clip where it was playing audio, now it does not, but the meter is bouncing indicating audio is playing. If I bring in a different video file to the timeline, it plays it’s audio fine. Speakers are ok, or the other file would not play. I had this happen once before and I opened the same file in an older version of vegas….v4….and it started playing. I tried that too, but the same results, monitor shows audio playing, no sound from speakers. Any ideas?
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4 Replies
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It might be an audio codec issue.
I suggest you try exporting the audio track as WAV file using VirtualDub.
(It can be found via Google. It’s free).
Open the problematic video file in Vegas, delete the audiotrack, load the WAV file and group it with the Video track. -
Omer; Thanks for the response. I’m not sure how virtual dub will help. When I went to the link for virtual dub it was an offer for a free cd for video editing software which they called virtual dub, with sign up for other software suggestions they would be sending. Are you saying it does something Vegas does not? Or would it be possible to export the audio track from vegas as a wav file, then import back in? Or I also have other audio processing software like sound forge. Would that work? Thanks.
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https://virtualdub.org/ is the official site for this great utility.
I’m not sure it would work either but you have nothing to lose.If you have Sound Forge, you could do the same thing as it allows you to import AVI files.
Another thing to try is opening up a new instance of Vegas and doing a copy/paste from one to the other to see if it will work.
Failing that, start a brand new project, import this file and see if it still acts strange.
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I don’t know for sure why but I tried combining the track, and then normalizing, and that seemed to work! I do have sound forge and I was going to try that next. Thanks for the suggestions. Michael
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