[Michael Gibrall]

Thanks, Steve.

That’s the technique I was trying to avoid but I just spent the past few hours doing just that. Just wanted to save time.

Thanks everyone for your input.

[Michael Gibrall]

Thanks, but I’m afraid that replaces the edited down clip with the entire audio file. Unless I’m missing something.

[Michael Gibrall]

I’m sorry, I don’t follow you. Where am I right clicking ‘drop’ and add as take?

[Michael Gibrall]

The left area, all those clips have the effect. On the same track to the right, they do not.

Sometimes during a render, the effect works for the clips to the left. Sometimes, it doesn’t.

I’ve moved the clips with the effect to another audio track and it will work if I render. For a while. Eventually, it’ll stop working when I render.

Mind you I always hear the effect when playing back on the timeline. It’s sometimes a render won’t take.

Maybe I should create an audio track only for the clips with the effect?

I guess another alternative is to render just the clips as a wav or aiff and drop them into the timeline?

[Michael Gibrall]

Bottom left of image.

[Michael Gibrall]

Thank you both. Between your messages, I got it to work.

[Michael Gibrall]

I’m afraid when I select match output ratio the logo slightly flies forward as it scrolls up, then back, and there is still cutoff on the top and bottom.

[Michael Gibrall]

Thanks for the tip about Izotope RX2.

I was pulling my hair out trying to fix audio with Audacity and not degrade the mics of the actors.

Using Izotope RX2 standard, not even the pro version, I was able to quickly do what is normally done in Audacity by going through the same process with a minor adjustment to the defaults, and the noise was removed, but maintained the quality of the mics on the actors.

Thanks for the tip! LOVE the software!

[Michael Gibrall]

I figured out a way to resolve the problem using a normal Video FX that comes with Vegas.

See attached photo.

I added Bump Map, turned the bumping levels to 0 to eliminate them, the adjusted the light and position to where I wanted it.

I did this same effect multiple times, positioned them all around the actor, and viola.

Plus, since it’s ‘bumping’, the actor’s motions didn’t step on the lighting.

Thanks for offering your help, and maybe this can help someone in the future with a similar problem.

[Michael Gibrall]

Wow, thanks for your time.

I don’t have MBL. May have to consider it.

We’re not done with our film yet and we MAY reshoot part of that scene to include daytime, but it depends on time and budget. MBL may be something to consider, though.