Vegas Video discussions from 2006 (Q1Q2)

[David Desper]

Thanks Everyone For Your Input...I have got a custom to the keys now after using it for a couple days

[Seth Bloombaum]

If you're getting sound at all out of any program on your PC, you should be able to get Vegas audio out to those same speakers.

Assuming you can for example play something from iTunes or Windows Media Player (please write again if you don't hear sound out of windows programs)...

The vegas controls you are looking for are in Options | Preferences | Audio Device. Most straightforward: Pull down the setting for "audio device type" to "microsoft sound mapper". That will probably do it.

If that doesn't work, explore the other devices you have available in that setting and test them.

Originally Posted by Steven Davis

...I set my onboard audio to 4 channel to get the link to my monitor to work...

You seem to be suggesting that you have a 4-channel audio card and you want Vegas to play out of channels 3 & 4? If so, you want to find those channels in the audio device settings, that's where you set it up.

If none of the above work, you might look at your project audio properties, and assure that you are playing back off the timeline at a standard that your audio card accomodates. For example, 16 bit 44.1 KHz ought to work, but 24 bit 96 KHz might not.

Still no joy? Write back...

[Chris Barcellos]

Under the options pull down menu, are you sure you don't have all audio muted ??

[Steven Davis]

Originally Posted by Chris Barcellos

Under the options pull down menu, are you sure you don't have all audio muted ??

Hehe, yeah, knowing me, that was the first thing I checked. I can get Vegas sound through my speakers, i.e main speaker out, but not to the monitor, I'm going look into Seths' ideas.

[Steven Davis]

Originally Posted by Seth Bloombaum

If you're getting sound at all out of any program on your PC, you should be able to get Vegas audio out to those same speakers.

Assuming you can for example play something from iTunes or Windows Media Player (please write again if you don't hear sound out of windows programs)...

The vegas controls you are looking for are in Options | Preferences | Audio Device. Most straightforward: Pull down the setting for "audio device type" to "microsoft sound mapper". That will probably do it.

If that doesn't work, explore the other devices you have available in that setting and test them.



You seem to be suggesting that you have a 4-channel audio card and you want Vegas to play out of channels 3 & 4? If so, you want to find those channels in the audio device settings, that's where you set it up.

If none of the above work, you might look at your project audio properties, and assure that you are playing back off the timeline at a standard that your audio card accomodates. For example, 16 bit 44.1 KHz ought to work, but 24 bit 96 KHz might not.

Still no joy? Write back...

Still no joy, thinking. I tested Acid which came with Vegas, and DVD Architect, neither one of the me will play through the monitor, but Itunes and the like still will. Hmmmm.

[Jacob Walker]

Sounds like it would work just fine Rick. If you have the time, even if the person your going to use isn't avaliabe do some test shots. Its kinda a pain, but if I can't blackmail someone to be my model, I just stand in front of the camera myself and go back and worth changing settings until it looks good.

Good luck on your project.

jacob

[Douglas Spotted Eagle]

Using Windows Classic drivers? Asio drivers? routing? um....trying to think of other possiblities....those are the first that come to mind after what others have suggested.

[Steven Davis]

I plugged my monitors audio up to my other computer which has a sound card, not the onboard sound, when I switched the computers sound configuration to 5.1 surround, I got sound out of Vegas. So I'm narrowing it down to that on my NLE's sound configuration.

[Frank Hool]

I have one workstation with only SSE support(no SSE2, SSE3). New version of Premiere don't support such CPU anymore.

Wich versions of Vegas can work with that CPU(PIII-866)?
Can i do in Vegas simple edit. It means cut out all unnecessary footage and export all remaining clips without any recompression?

[Edward Troxel]

I have Vegas 6 running on a PIII 300MHz for testing purposes. I don't edit on that machine but I do test run scripts. The official base requirements are:

Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional (Windows XP SP2 required for HDV)
800 MHz processor (2.8 GHz recommended for HDV)
200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
600 MB hard-disk space for optional Sony Sound Series Loops & Samples reference library installation
256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended for HDV)
OHCI-compatible i.LINK® connector*/IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape)
Windows-compatible sound card
CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
Microsoft DirectX® 9 or later (included on CD-ROM)
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1
Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)

[Ian Slessor]

Hey gang,

I've picked up Vegas 6. Yay!

Will there be any problems accessing my Vegas 5 files with V6?

Just wondering.

sincerely,


ian

BTW.

This is NOT an upgrade.

It's a totally new install of the V6.

[Douglas Spotted Eagle]

No problems should be encountered opening older veg files in Vegas 6, no.
Congrats!

[Ian Slessor]

Thanks DSE,

Good to know.

sincerely,


ian

[Ian Slessor]

Late to this thread but I have to echo what Emre posted.

A shuttle/jog will go miles/kilometers (for the rest of the world) to making your workflow smoother.

That and the keyboard shortcuts as you've no doubt deduced.

All the best.

ian

[Edward Troxel]

Just remember, if you open a Vegas 5 file in Vegas 6 and then save it in Vegas 6, it will no longer open in Vegas 5. So... Always make a copy first or do a Save As to a new name in Vegas 6.