[Larry Cole]

I also had this problem on the first edit of a text event after opening an existing project. I found that if I made sure to close a project file and then open another (vs. going directly from an open project file to opening another), the problem has not reoccurred.

[Larry Cole]

Excellent. Thanks so much for your help.

[Larry Cole]

How do you see the timeline for a change in the audio bus levels?

I was thinking that the bus levels affected the entire project and stayed constant. I could not understand how automation would interface with that concept and based on your comments I can see that my assumption was wrong. I think this is the missing piece that is keeping me from understanding this feature.

[Larry Cole]

Thanks for the great comments. I tried the wavehammer last night and immediately liked it. I do have a couple of follow up questions please….

Is the wavehammer designed to compliment or replace the compressor and limiter plug-ins that are assigned by default when an audio track is added?

I have a section of music that I really wanted to punch though the noise but with the wavehammer applied I could not get the volumn level up. I had it applied on my audio music bus. If I apply it to the track can you turn it on and off?

I just started playing with buses and automation recently. How does automation on an audio bus affect the tracks assigned to that bus? I played with the sliders but did not see any affect.

Again, thanks for your help and suggestions.

[Larry Cole]

What is the difference between SD and HD?

[Larry Cole]

That sounds interesting but I’m afraid I did not follow.

Do you apply the pitch shift and generate a new track and then apply the next one, or can you just cascade the pitch shift effect?

Also, what did you mean by “for each note in the melody”? My objective is to take a voice only track and “mask” the voices so that you can hear the melody but not hear the words any more.

I experimented a little and got some really funky sounds but I either completely ruined the melody or you could still hear the words.

Thanks for the help… can you elaborate?

[Larry Cole]

You are correct.

Thanks for the help.

[Larry Cole]

Where is the include markers option? I looked on the render dialog and preferences dialog. I have Vegas 8.0a.

Also, I did move the mpg file and did not move the sfk file. I thought it was a temporary file that would get rebuilt. Obviously a bad assumption.

[Larry Cole]

Played around a little with the settings tonight and found that if I changed the pixel format in the project properties window to 32 bit floating point (from 8 bit) that my color and quality was restored. I don’t really understand what this does but it seemed to do the trick.

Thanks for the help.

Larry

[Larry Cole]

I copied the .vob files on the dvd to my harddrive and then dropped them directly on the time line.

Would it make any difference if I renamed them?

Thanks,

Larry