[Walker Angell]

No No, that would be like Vegas Video (without any number, which, I just checked, is still usable on my old PC that now just hosts an HD tuner). Vegas 4 would be like maybe an early version of Word for Windows 🙂

[Walker Angell]

Thanks guys. This will be for film classes (they said razor blades aren’t allowed so I have to use software to teach editing). If we go Vegas we’ll have Pro on our laptops but I’m guessing some students will want to buy something for their personal laptops and Plat10 from JourneyEd could be a good deal for many of them. A lite version is fine, particularly if what’s litened is documented, a different but similar platform could be a disaster – thus I want to make sure the Plat 10 and it’s offspring truly are just pro with some things turned off.

We did a very short test of taking stuff back and forth. We were actually successful in getting simple projects created in Pro to open up and be editable in Plat. Is this not supposed to work? Or only if features, like too may tracks, are used that aren’t available in Plat?

Thanks,

[Walker Angell]

Very quick response: One option is to insert a volume envelope (click on track automation icon?). This will let you vary the background volume during specific times. More info in the manual.

[Walker Angell]

That was it! Thank YOU! As many times as I used to do multi-selects like that I can’t believe I never ran in to that before. Must have accidentally grabbed the first one instead of just somewhere in the middle of the select like I was doing today.

[Walker Angell]

What you hear is what you get. If you adjust the level of the background audio (via gain or by inserting and adjusting a volume or envelope (or limiter or compressor or …), then what you hear s/b the same as the rendered version. You can always select a short portion to render and hear how the final will sound.

[Walker Angell]

Thanks to you both. Turned out they had an older NTSC projector. Lots of lumens, not so much resolution. I re-rendered for NTSC which looked good on the projector considering, but the tech accidentally played the 720p DVI version. Lots of pixelation, but that’s life.

Thanks again for your help!

[Walker Angell]

I assume you’ve checked this, but I’ll mention it anyway. When I’ve seen this it always had to do with some mismatch in the file path/name. The one that stumped me the most (years ago) was when Vegas thought a drive was E:, but that same drive in Windows Explorer was G:. I could see the file, all looked well, but after much searching I realized the problem. I’ve also seen this when it couldn’t find a file and I auto brained a check mark to leave it offline – so even when the file was there I’d told Vegas to keep it offline.

Have you tried to manually re-import to make sure all is matched?

[Walker Angell]

Took a flyer that 9 was different enough from 4 that the two wouldn’t conflict on the same machine so downloaded the trial for 9. Both 4 and 9 run and 9 provides the preview capabilities I needed (among a few other improvements over the past few years :-).

[Walker Angell]

To be 59 again…

Oh wait, I’m not sure I’ve been there a first time yet.

I can’t remember 🙂

Now, where did I put the razorblade after that last splice…

Thanks!

[Walker Angell]

Thanks Mike. That’s what I needed. I’m slowly clearing the cobwebs out of the part of my brain where Vegas knowledge was stored. Seems like I had a much better memory when I was younger 🙂