voiceovers

[Mike Kujbida]

Is your headphone mic a cheap one or is there another problem with it?

Regardless, it’s very easy to use the audio from your footage.
Drop the desired clip on the timeline or, if it’s already on there, copy it to a new location.
Vegas locks the audio track to the video track so you need to ungroup them by selecting the audio track and pressing the U (Ungroup) key.
You should now be able to slide them independent of each other.
Delete the corresponding video track and move the audio track to the desired location.
That’s all there is to it.
Happy editing 🙂

[Jerry Lee]

Thank You Mike. You explained it very well.

My headphone/mic is a good quality set, and i have a very good sound card. It was working fine before, but after my last format, switching to Vista it seems to have a very low output volume along with a slight mettalic ringing sound to it. I have been coresponding with Creative techs with no help yet.

Thanks again for the Vegas help Mike.

[Mike Kujbida]

Glad to have been of help Jerry.
Hopefully Creative can get your issues worked out.
It sounds like a Vista driver problem to me and this is something you’re not alone on as a lot of folks have discovered various Vista driver issues 🙁

[John Gleason]

I have heard an interesting solution to voice overs. Take your DV Camera. Plug it into your computer and open the Vegas capture program. Plug your microphone into your DV camera and start recording your voice over. Discard video track and use the audio for your project.

I have not yet tried this, but the person I heard it from assured me the DV Camera acted as a signal booster and the audio quality was much better than when plugging the 1/8th inch mic jack straight into the computer.

[Jerry Lee]

Thanks John, i’ll have to give that a try.