Vegas Video HD 11 Users
 

I've downloaded the trial version because the basic video editing software I've used for years does not support multiple audio channels.

I've imported a video that was shot with 2 mics. Channel 1 is an on camera shotgun and channel 2 is a wireless lavalier.

While editing the video I have figured out how to select channel 2 and when I play it from the editor, it sounds great. However, when I render the final file, the audio defaults to channel 1 even though it's set to channel 2.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong, missing a step, etc but I have no idea what it is.

Can anybody here assist?

Mute the channel you do not wish to use - select top of channel - click and pull down.

or CTRL U separates the audio from the video - delete the audio that attached to the video.

bump-good luck

You can right click on the video and choose UNGROUP I believe also.... to do the same thing as ctrl-u mentioned above.

The audio and video are on different timelines but both audio channels are on the same. If I mute one, I mute both.

Channel 1 and 2 shown in layer 4.

http://ampcontent.com/photos/vegasvideo.jpg

ok so looks like vegas has picked that up as a left and right channel.

Right click - select left or right channel under channels and that will be the only audio channel used.

Been there, done that.

I use Adobe Premiere CS5 -- does anyone else?

as weird as this might sound, search it on youtube...

Been there, done that too. Watched several videos and not one of them was helpful. If you got different results, please post the url.

Also searched this thing they call "Google" and came up empty.

If the render is diferent from the playback then maybe it's in your render properties. Is it set to mono or stereo? The default vegas settings had me pulling my hair out until someone here helped me tweek them. Also, if you only need 1 audio track, just delete the other. Check the levels on each track as well, sometimes they cancel each other out. Another little Vegas hicup is that if your data is spread throughout diferent drives it slows the render so much that it haults it or decides not to use certain tracks. I had to resize my title and credit photos and put them into the video capture folder to remedy the multi-drive data scrambled omlet. And it only took me a month of trial and error to figure it out!!! That's my :2 cents:

Hell if I know what it's set to or how to change that. Also, no clue how to delete one audio track without deleting both.

You can select either track and I have selected the one I want.

All data is one one drive.

If you're not using Adobe Premiere then you're not using anything at all.

Thanks for your unsolicited opinion. :321GFY

I'm not doing what you are with v11, so I'm out of the loop so to speak

I don't know how to do a screenshot so call me and I'll walk you through it. Deej has my number.

Thanks for the offer. Please check your email.

ctrl, prt scr.. then open shop, new file and control v

THANKS!!!

Aaron - sorry we couldn't figure it out over the phone, I'm only half editing geek (EG) part comspiracy theorist (CT) but I did my best. Since yours is the free trial version of Sony Vegas, the CT in me thinks that Sony wants you to actually BUY the $1000 version before they let you use all the fancy options in the program. But the EG in me thinks that there is some dude with no life sitting in his mom's basement trying to catch his 15 seconds of internet fame making Sony Vegas tutorials that dreams of helping a photographer with naked pictures of real live girls!!! :2 cents:

Good talking to you.

Aaron, center the chanel to one side then render mono...

There is no mono setting - only stereo & surround sound.

wow that sucks. then render out an audio track and start over?

Duplicate the audio track and control the sound of each chanel on each seperate track.

Mute one or drop the vollume down so much that's it's just ambient noise.

Or... you can cut up each track and insert the sound into the master track or just leave it on it's own track on the timeline.

That way you can actually fade the unwanted sound out of each track and bring in (or up) the sound from the other right where you need it.

Then render and see how it all works out.

I did this on some content I shot in Hawaii because the model sabotaged my camera trying to playback her scenes and fucked with the audio buttons instead of the vollume and 90% of our content had zero sound. Fortunately I did have 20 minutes with sound of masturbation video on the beach to splice into an audio track and mastered it all together. Then we filmed the voice tracks of each girl seperately and spliced it all together. It sounds a little like a chinese karate movie from the 70's but you hardly notice it unless you are looking for it. We could have made it perfect with more time but it's only porno and easier to reshoot it than spend forever editing it.

Make sure that the encoding method you are trying to use supports the audio you are trying to get...very important

Amalgamation ?

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them out and see what happens.

Yes... I own it... I haven't exactly mastered it yet, however. I'm a Vegas guy... but video encoding on Vegas fucking blows donkey balls unless you output to uncompressed AVI. The original plan was to transition to Premiere because it supports CUDA. And then I found out my video card isn't supported... go figure. :)

Then CTL+C the original sound track and CTL+V on a new track and be done with it. :)

Instant stereo. Er, mono.