How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?

How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by Anthony Atkielski on Jun 2, 2011 at 7:15:01 pm

When you insert new media onto a video track, and the media also contains an audio track (like a typical video clip), how does Vegas decide where to put the audio track? I notice that it puts it right below the default video track when you use that, but if I want to create a new video track with an associated audio track, how should I do that so that Vegas always puts the audio from an inserted event into the audio track? If you understand what I mean. I haven't found an explanation in the Help.

Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by John Rofrano on Jun 2, 2011 at 11:43:16 pm

[Anthony Atkielski] "if I want to create a new video track with an associated audio track, how should I do that so that Vegas always puts the audio from an inserted event into the audio track?"

Vegas has no concept of an "associated" video or audio track. There are just video tracks and audio tracks and Vegas will happily ignore the ones on your timeline and make more (after all they are unlimited).

In short, there is no way to do what you want to do.

~jr

Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by Ken Fisher on Jun 5, 2012 at 9:17:04 pm

I known this is an old thread but spending the past few hours here has unearthed some real jewels. Not to mention the contributions!

John:

Are you saying there's no way to limit the number of audio tracks? Oh, maybe this is different from the above poster. My problem or annoyance is when I do numerous voice-overs Vegas keeps inserting more and more audio tracks making the timeline harder to work with. I haven't found an easy work around to this, but I haven't tinkered with it for awhile.

Clues?

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Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by John Rofrano on Jun 6, 2012 at 12:56:34 am

[Ken Fisher] "Are you saying there's no way to limit the number of audio tracks?"

If you drag media to the existing tracks it will use them. It's only when you drag the media to a new track that it makes both a new video and audio track. No there is no way to limit them. It just keeps making them depending on where you drop the media.

[Ken Fisher] "My problem or annoyance is when I do numerous voice-overs Vegas keeps inserting more and more audio tracks making the timeline harder to work with. "

I'm not sure how it's making new tracks. The way to do a voice over is to ARM the audio track that you want to record onto. Vegas will only record onto that track. You can even select an area of the track and have Vegas punch-in and out. Vegas is very rich in voice over capabilities and it can all be done on one audio track (I do this all the time).

~jr

Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by Ken Fisher on Jun 6, 2012 at 9:48:54 am

I'll have to study more into this when I'm faced with the situation. But, I just played around with it and it happens when I go back to a project after saving and closing Vegas. I experimented with this six times and each time a new audio track was inserted. The only solution I have is moving the recent audio to the main track used for voiceovers then delete all the extra tracks that were created. In the past I had difficulties getting/moving all voice overs on to the same audio track. Almost as if something was "locked."

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Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by John Rofrano on Jun 6, 2012 at 6:31:32 pm

[Ken Fisher] "I'll have to study more into this when I'm faced with the situation. But, I just played around with it and it happens when I go back to a project after saving and closing Vegas. I experimented with this six times and each time a new audio track was inserted. "

That's probably because you're using the wrong procedure. I'm guessing you are simply pressing the record button which will always create a new track if no track is armed for recording. The proper procedure is to select the audio track that you want to record on first, then ARM that track by pressing the Arm for Record button, THEN press the record button and your audio will ALWAYS be recorded onto that track.

Like this:

~jr

Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by Ken Fisher on Jun 6, 2012 at 7:47:41 pm

Ah, ha. I never saw that. Seems the default setting on Vegas hides it until the window is dragged to enlarge. Thanks for that screen shot. It did the trick!!

Oh yikes another gizmo appears. Sound mapper. No need to reply on that.

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Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by John Rofrano on Jun 7, 2012 at 11:34:28 am

[Ken Fisher] "Oh yikes another gizmo appears. Sound mapper. No need to reply on that."

The Sound Mapper is your audio device and it's the way you select what input to record from. For example, a voice over is usually done with a single microphone so you want to record in mono which would require you to select the Left channel only. If you click on Microsoft Sound Mapper you'll see that you can select Microsoft Sound Mapper - Left as your input which is what you should be using for voice overs (from your surprise it sounds like you've been recording you mono voice in stereo).

~jr

Re: How does Vegas decide where to put an audio track?
by Ken Fisher on Jun 21, 2012 at 8:04:51 pm

I just saw this. Thanks John.

I played with it a little. Probably the reason why I get such a deep background voice sound when played on a stereo TV. I haven't tested it yet.

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Intel Core TM i7-2670QM CPU 2.20Ghz
8 G RAM