[Rick Mac]

1) SATA cables can be problematic at times.
First try reseating the connection to the drive and at the
motherboard.

2) Are you sure that the capture was good without dropped frames.
playback will be jerky if you dropped frames at capture.

3) I’m sure you have run a scandisk on the drive. Be sure to run a
surface scan when doing the scandisk. If it finds a lot errors your drive surface is coming apart.

4) Just for grins, transfer some of a clip that will not playback
smoothly to your system drive. If it plays back good then you know the drive is the problem. If it has problems playing on your system drive then the capture was bad. If capture was bad we can look at some of your vegas settings.

5) You might try uninstalling the drive and the drivers for it’s controller in the system devices area. Then reboot and let plug and play reinstall the drivers. I have seen this happen, a device driver for some reason becomes corrupted.

Post again to let us know what you have found out so far.

Regards, Rick.

[Rick Mac]

Your drive should be able to keep up just fine.
Are you running any programs in the background such as antivirus.
If so, close them. Turn indexing off on that drive.

Is this an internal or external drive?
How is it hooked up? USB, Firewire, internal controller?

[Rick Mac]

What are your project settings and what Preview Quality Setting are you using?

[Rick Mac]

Bob,

Hang tight, there is one guy I know of who will most likely
respond to your post. He writes some 3rd party stuff for Vegas.

Good luck and hope to see some software from you soon.

Regards, Rick.

[Rick Mac]

Here is a link to one tutorial

https://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

[Rick Mac]

Happy to help!

Regards, Rick.

[Rick Mac]

If I were you I would do it the easy way and purchase
a copy of Excalibur. It has a MultiCam Tool that creates
a preview of all of your cameras in the preview window, and
allows you to switch your cameras like having a video switcher.
Also has a ton of others tools that supercharge Vegas.

https://www.classondemand.net/classondemand/vegas-training/excalibur.aspx

[Rick Mac]

Very Strange,

Perhaps a fresh install of Soundforge may help.
Before you do that, in Soundforge, go to preferences/Audio tab
and check to see if the proper Audio Device is selected and that
you have #1 Left and #2 Right selected.

That’s all I can think of to look for in Soundforge.
Since you see both channels making the trip from Vegas
I would suspect a channel routing problem in Soundforge,
or an incorrect setting in your audio devices “playback tab”
or corruption of your soundcard driver or Soundforge is corrupt.

The really strange thing is that all plays back fine from Soundforge as long as Vegas “Send to soundforge” is not used.

Seems to me like if you see both left and right channels in Soundforge it ought to play. Since you can hear it fine in the headphones it sounds more like a soundcard routing or soundforge channel routing issue.

If you get more info post it. I will check back later.

Rick.

[Rick Mac]

Grasshopper,

Let’s try the easiest explaination for seeing a stereo waveform in Soundforge but only hearing one side.

Is it possible that once your waveform is opened in soundforge that one side (channel) has been highlighted (selected)? This would cause you to hear only the side selected.

Send the audio from Vegas to soundforge and see if one side has been highlighted. If it has, double click in the center of the waveform to highlight both channels and play it.

Was this the problem or do we need to look deeper?

Rick.

[Rick Mac]

Grasshopper,

Just to clarify, you hear both speakers in SoundForge if you open a
file from within soundforge such as a wav file, however you have your problem when you try to send your audio from Vegas to Soundforge via the “send to Soundforge command”.
Is this correct?

Rick.