[Debbie King]

Hi John.

Thank you for your response.

1. The limitation that I experienced was the cleaning up the background noise. It was an easier process with Audacity.

2. I would like to keep the workflow smoother. The reason I asked about Cubase, is because my composer will be using Cubase to created the music. He will be sending me the audio files to drop onto the Sony Vegas tracks (stems, I believe); still trying to understand what Stems actually mean. When I used to record years ago, we saved the recording on 16 tracks on a DAT and when we mixed, we would be able to mix the tracks separately. Is this what stems are?

3. Thank you. I was wishing to be able to use Sony to mix everything, since I already have Foley, ADR and some music on the timeline.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Scott:

Thank you for your response. Just want to be clear, when you refer to stems, you are referring to instrumentations recorded on different tracks. For example, a track for strings, a track for drums, etc. In music we just say tracks, but I am hearing stems a lot and am a little confused by what it means exactly.

So what you are saying is that if the music is recorded in Cubase, I can mix it in Cubase, save the file and drop it in the Sony timeline. I have not yet had any experiences with dialogue losing sync in Vegas. All have been working quite well so far.

[Debbie King]

Hi Colin:

Thank you for your response. I am responsible for all of it. The entire video, dialogue and sound editing. In the past I have used Audacity to clean up the background noise. Is it comparable to Sound Forge?

[Debbie King]

Hi Steve:

Thank you for your feedback. I was able to download a free trial of Adobe After Effects, for the Prekeying feature that it has, where I can drop the clip directly onto a specific area in a frame. I tried with Sony and I am still all thumbs when it comes to positioning. I’m still working on it.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Steve:

Thank you for responding. I’m not sure that I understand. Changing their setting to Premultiplied? Changing the settings in Vegas to Premultiplied? In After Effects, I saw the demo where they drop and position the effect clip onto the video, and it was automatically keyframed. I don’t see where I can do this in Sony. I found premultiply in the Preference menu, but am unsure as to how to work it.

[Debbie King]

Hi Scott:

It ended up in the final. What I did was normalize it in Sony and uploaded it in Audacity to clean it up. It sounds so much better now.

Thank you Scott.

Grazie:

Thank you.

I didn’t use the Presonus, but I do use Steinberg UR22. I never tried the brand you named. Is the UR22 as good?

Best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Thanks Steve. This is good to know. Can I use Action Essential directly on Sony or do I need to use it on Adobe After Effects first?

Best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Thank you. I will take a look. What about the pre-keys that come with Action Essentials. Does the software you mentioned have pre-key also?

Best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Kelly:

Yes. I need an animator to follow the gun. I saw on Youtube where someone created weapon attachments in Cinema 4d and made it available for download. I downloaded it, but it would only work with After Effects or Final Cut Pro. So I figured that I’d look around to see if someone knew where I could find the same for Sony Vegas.

[Debbie King]

Thanks Steve:

I’ll try it.

Best,

Debbie