[Doug Jackson]

Hi Sarah,

You should look at using a ‘Compressor’ effect on your background music track. How much compression you use will depend on the difference between the loud and soft sections. A compressor will ‘squash’ the loud sections down. If the soft sections are really low, you can apply what’s called ‘make up gain’ or ‘auto gain compensation’ to make them louder.

It’s a little tricky in Vegas to see the effect a compressor has on an event because the ‘waveform’ displayed in the event does NOT reflect the applied effect, only the source.

If you ‘render’ the compressed track to a new track, you will be able to see the result in the waveform shown on the new track.

(Yes, this is Sony Vegas 13)

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Sarah,

I don’t have Vegas 18, but in previous versions you could stop the recording by clicking the ‘PAUSE’ instead of ‘STOP’ and the playhead would stay at the end of the event. I think hitting the ‘Enter’ (or return) key while recording would also act like clicking the ‘PAUSE’ icon.

A non-automatic method in previous versions would be to use the Right Bracket key “]” which would jump to the end of a selected event.

Maybe it’s still the same.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Thanks for that link. Much to learn.

I recreated my Fusion Composition from scratch and it all worked as expected the 2nd time.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Aaarghh! Except, the Fusion Composition now does not show when I switch back to the ‘Edit’ page! I mean, it’s on the timeline but it does not ‘render’ in the viewer. But I can switch back to the Fusion page and preview ‘MediaOut1’ in the viewer.

[Doug Jackson]

Well, I’ve been trying to dig into what was wrong with my Fusion Composition and kept monkeying around with things until I’ve found my own solution.

I can’t really believe that what I discovered would be the ‘expected’ behavior but who knows.

What I believe had happened was somehow several nodes got ‘locked‘ at a shorter duration than the Fusion Composition.

After spending some time in the DR16 manual in the Fusion section and looking at my screenshot, I should have been able to ‘resize’ the events in the Keyframe editor. And some of the other objects in my comp I could resize, but not all.

And the tail of the ‘MediaOut1’ was red because I think Fusion was saying “But you told me the duration for output was supposed to be this long”. (Try looking at a ‘Blank’ Fusion Comp with only a ‘MediaOut1’ node in the Keyframe editor.)

In my node tree, the ‘Merge2’ node was connected to the ‘MediaOut1’. So I disconnected them. I could then resize the event in the Keyframe editor. I reconnected and I then I could still resize.

So, if you can’t resize a duration for a node, try disconnecting some of them.

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Antti,

I don’t have Vegas 14 (I have 13), but I believe Vegas plays back clips at project rate. You can see this previous topic:

iPhone5 slow-mo

Regards,

–Doug

[Doug Jackson]

Hi Don,

I don’t have Vegas 14, but I have 13 and I don’t think there’s was much change in the interface between those two versions.
A couple of things to check:
Make sure ‘Ignore Event Grouping’ is not enabled by mistake.

You may have unintentionally removed either the video or the audio from the ‘group’ or cleared the group altogether. If so, you will need to re-group those video and audio events together. Search the help file on ‘Group Events’ if you need more info.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Hi Dave,

Although I don’t have Vegas 16 (I have Vegas 13), I believe ‘MediaFX’ means that it applies to the whole ‘clip’ (file) and not just the ‘event’ you have selected on the timeline. Which explains why you are seeing the long delay while analyzing and explains why any event on the timeline from that file has stabilization applied.
I believe Stabilization can only be applied to the whole clip or a ‘sub-clip’ if you were to make one from the event you wish to stabilize. I would suggest creating a ‘sub-clip’ if that feature is still available in version 16.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

Hi Nick,

If you just ‘stretched’ your Text event to a new length, it is probably ‘looping’ – there will be little notches showing in the text event.

You need to lengthen the text event by editing the duration to match the amount you stretched it.


Then you will likely need to move your keyframes in your color animation.

Regards,
–Doug

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[Doug Jackson]

I don’t have Vegas 15, but in Sony Vegas Pro 13 if you have a Marker and a Region beginning at the same point, I can click on the endpoint flag of the Region and then ‘Ctrl+Left Arrow’ to move the beginning flag. A Right Click then gives me context menu of the ‘Regions’ and ‘Rename’ can be selected.

I can find no magic keystroke to toggle between ‘Region’ and ‘Marker’ flag when they align at the same point. But Zooming in a moving one or the other even by a frame, will then allow the ‘Ctrl+Left Arrow’ or ‘Ctrl+Right Arrow’ to step to each type individually.

Regards,
–Doug

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