Bob Peterson
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As John said, don’t look too closely at the preview. My preview is usually set to “preview(auto)”. I have to remember that the somewhat poor resolution that I see will not show up in the final render. Vegas is simply trying to give me a reasonably fast playback for editing purposes. If rendered at best quality, I will see a high quality image.
However, you may also want to look at your camera and how it is set up. I have some material from two camera shoots where a Canon XL-1S was used with a Canon GL-2. THe XL-1S video looks very soft particularly when compared to the GL-2. The XL-1S simply did not have the resolution that more contemporary cameras have. Close attention must be paid to getting a sharp focus and good resolution from the camera.
As a sidelight, the XL-1S has about the same resolution as the video delivered by current Nikon DSLRs. That may be worth mulling over a bit even though it is widely off this subject.
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Just for this question, I cranked up 9.0c and swapped tracks. I could not hear any difference at all. More details on hardware and format might give some clues (I was testing with a DV source file).
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OK. One thing I have never understood. The Vegas community seems to think that QT is pretty poor, and causes many problems. Why does Vegas continue to rely on it? It apparently uses it, for example, to render tif files and a few video formats.
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Why copy it? You can simply save it to a new name. That will retain everything without additional effort.
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In that case, get the music directly from the CD. Windows Media Player can do that job, and I’m sure there are many, many other ways to extract audio from a CD. Sound Forge, for example, can easily extract all the tracks from a CD.
Both of these options will deliver much higher quality audio, and Vegas will work with them.
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Sure! You can bypass it by avoiding sites, like iTunes, which use DRM.
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I have used the Quick Time 7 format successfully although not in iMovie. I have no need for iMovie, but the file produced by Vegas does run on a Mac.
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I don’t know what is causing the behavior you are reporting. I tried it on one of my projects in Pro 9c. I checked a short section of the video, and found a master audio meter reading of -.8 decibels (the peak reading). After I duplicated the audio tracks, it clipped with a maximum reading of +5.2 decibels.
In any event, if your version of Vegas is reducing the volume, it is a simple matter to increase the master audio volume level control to restore the desired level.
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I recall using Vegas itself for ADR in a class taught by Jeff Fisher. The process I remember is that Vegas plays a bit of dialogue (we were using headphones), and a new take would be recorded on the time line. No third party products needed.
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If the tracks have the same sound and are not directly under each other (i.e. in synch), the tracks may be canceling each other because they are out of phase.
Perhaps you can explain why you are adding the same sound on multiple tracks in an out of synch fashion.