[Roger Bansemer]

There is a small icon on the left side of the track which looks like a white square with an arrow in it pointing to a light blue square.
That’s the “track motion” icon.
Click it and a window will open in which you can drag the corner of the box and it will resize the entire track.

[Roger Bansemer]

The trouble with just normalizing each clip is that you may get a lot more background noise in one event and less in another and the audio won’t be consistent. It really doesn’t solve the problem.
The wave hammer on the master bus will prevent any audio from going over a certain dB limit. That tab on the wave hammer is listed as “volume Maximizer” and the setting would be on the slider marked “output level”.
There is no easy solution for this at least doing stuff for PBS. There are a whole lot of steps involved in getting it right. They have a set of complicated and hard to understand guidelines which must be followed or the show will be rejected when they do a technical evaluation of the program that is sent to them for broadcast. Believe me, I know. I think local TV stations may have less stringent guidelines so it may be wise to ask the station what their audio limits and guidelines are. As I said before PBS requires not only that levels be set correctly, but the “levels over time” which is totally different be set correctly as well.
On the bright side, I have a friend who produced a show in Tampa and didn’t bother with audio levels at all and the station put whatever filters and clamps on it at the time of airing that were needed and it was was good to go.

[Roger Bansemer]

Here is what we do for broadcast and maybe John Rofrano who is the expert can add to this.
1. Normalize if necessary but only if the audio is so low that it really doesn’t register on as a wavform on the timeline.
2. On each track level of audio use a compressor and set the threshhold to -24db.
(note: PBS requires that the audio average -24dB not to exceed anything within 2dB of that.
3. On the master bus use the wave hammer plugin and in the case of PBS it’s set to -6.0 dB for threshold, 2.0:1 Ratio, and Output Gain to 0.0dB.
This will keep the level from over going above -24dB no matter what.

4. Then the levels are checked using a loudness meter. This is totally different from setting the levels as this is for measuring the LEVELS OVER TIME but something required by PBS. This plugin is not a part of Vegas but there are free ones out there. Let me know if you need info about them. I then let the program run and see where the levels come out. Hopefully to -24dB. If they are high or low at that point I adjust the volume slider on each track and run the meter again.

I’m not an expert here. I have just enough knowledge to get the PBS technical evaluation to pass PBS standards. Maybe someone like John will be able to add to this complicated issue. This is a start and thanks to the forum to have gotten me past just such question.

[Roger Bansemer]

I always make it a point to put all my project files in one folder so I don’t have that problem but a solution is to do a “save as” on your project to a NEW empty folder and Vegas will take all the files from the project and put them there. Be sure the folder is empty though or it will rename and double up all the files and make a real mess.

I don’t know about New Blue Titler (although I’ve heard from others that it’s not very stable) but on some of my NewBlue plugins when you click on the “about” box there is a check box there so you can disable GPU. I had problems with NewBlue crashing until I unchecked that. I then purchased a new updated video card and had no problems after that.

[Roger Bansemer]

Thanks Grazie for taking time to do that for me.
I missed finding it because I didn’t see the “global” button and just searching without that didn’t seem to bring up the mute for an event but just for the entire track.
Anyway, got it now and thanks again.
This will really save me a lot of mouse work.
Roger

[Roger Bansemer]

Grazie, I’m looking to mute (and unmute) on a single event and not the entire track. Can’t seem to find that option.

I do a lot of multi-track editing and there are many times when after expanding the tracks that I want to use a different event than I’ve chosen when doing the multitrack editing.

[Roger Bansemer]

Didn’t realize you posted before me. I misunderstood the question as well.

[Roger Bansemer]

If you are using Vegas12, you can use the new mask feature in Pan/crop.
It will allow you to put an oval, circle, square, etc on the event and then using the Keyframe you can enlarge it, etc.
The new mask also allows you to soften the edges.

[Roger Bansemer]

I’m not understanding this very well. Is there a Youtube video that goes into this process with more detail. I’d love to try it.

[Roger Bansemer]

Vegas 11 was full of issues and problems. It was horrible. Hope someone else will post because maybe version 12 will work although your probably fed up by this time. I know the feeling.