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Post by voodoochild on Jul 14, 2012 18:49:29 GMT -5
I want to thank everyone for the awesome tips in this thread; everything is super-helpful and easy to understand. Definitely a great resource. Dumb question time!
How do you fade audio in and out in the middle of a track in Sony Vegas 8? To elaborate, I have a very long song that I'm vidding, and I just want it to fade out at 4:12. What I've been doing is basically only exporting it to that time marker, but I'd like to fade the audio to make it sound nicer. Can I do this in SV8 or would it be better to find an audio editor (Audacity?) and chop off the 1:30 of song I don't need?
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Post by amnisias on Jul 15, 2012 8:49:34 GMT -5
I've got SV Pro 8 and there you've got two choices.
Simple fade: go with the curser to the very end or beginning of your music track where you want the fade, toggle the curser over the end until it changes the symbol to a quarter circle and a two-headed arrow and it says fade offset. When that shows, left click, and pull the curser towards the middle of the music, and you'll see the fade in appear. To change the shape of the fade in right-click over the fade in area, and the top option should be fade type.
If you need more controle over volume adjustments you can use an envelope. Go to the header of the music track (the coloured bit where the track number is written), right click, go on 'insert envelope' and then volume. A line apears in the music track, if you go over it with the curser, right click and click 'add point' you can set markers, which you can then move around any which way to modify the volume along the whole track. You can use this for example if you want the music to fade in/out in the middle rather then the end of the track.
I am pretty sure the first methods works in normal SV as well, the second one might be Pro sprecific, I'm not sure. Hope this helps...
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Post by littleheaven on Jul 31, 2012 0:08:48 GMT -5
Yep, that's the way I'd do it too. Split your clip where you want the music to stop completely (about 10sec past where the fade will start) and delete the bit you don't want. On the top right hand corner of the audio clip is a teeny blue triangle. Hover the cursor over that and you get your fade offset tool, as amnisias described. I've used Sony Screenblast and Vegas 6, 9, 10HD Platinum and 11HD Platinum and it's the same on all of them.
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Post by malna on Oct 5, 2012 12:15:49 GMT -5
I haven't even really started and I already stumbled on some tech problems. I've installed a Sony Vegas Pro 11 trial. Everything seems fine up until rendering. The render window is practically completely inactive. I can't scroll it down, can't choose any options. I thought maybe the problem were system requirements but apparently not. So is it possible that the trial was somehow faulty? I've read some comments on the site where I downloaded it from and they were rather enthusiastic. I was trying to do everything according to this tutorial. I set everything like the guy in this vid was suggesting before rendering, if that's at all relevant. So, did something like this happen to any of you guys? Should I just look for another trial or is there some other way?
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Post by obsessive24 on Oct 7, 2012 9:19:20 GMT -5
I don't have actual experience of the trial, so I suppose it could be faulty. Doesn't sound like it from the other comments though... do you think you could try uninstalling and reinstalling it to see if it makes a difference?
Presumably when you say "render window" you mean like 3:22 in the tutorial video? Can you take a screenshot of what's happening on your screen?
My only other thought is that maybe it takes a while to load all the options and while it's working, it might seem frozen in the meantime. If you open the render window and just let it sit there for a few minutes, is it still frozen?
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Post by malna on Oct 12, 2012 15:43:31 GMT -5
Thank you for your suggestions, Nicky! Presumably when you say "render window" you mean like 3:22 in the tutorial video? Yes. I tried a few things, several times, but in the end I uninstalled the trial and then downloaded and installed SV Pro 12 trial. Now it... still freezes on rendering but at least it's mostly temporary and after a while, with some problems but still, it works. Can you take a screenshot of what's happening on your screen? It wouldn't help, I think. Mostly the window looks normal, it's just inactive. Although if I open another window, say Opera, and then close it, the area taken by the render window will still display what was previously visible in the browser in that place. (sorry for my convoluted English, I hope you get the picture anyhow.) Anyway, moving the render window off the screen and back proves helpful. Idek. As long as it works.
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Post by obsessive24 on Oct 14, 2012 6:14:21 GMT -5
It wouldn't help, I think. Mostly the window looks normal, it's just inactive. Although if I open another window, say Opera, and then close it, the area taken by the render window will still display what was previously visible in the browser in that place. (sorry for my convoluted English, I hope you get the picture anyhow.) I know what you mean. It sounds like your computer is busy and just needs more time to "think". It also sounds potentially like your hardware specifications aren't high enough to handle the processing power that Vegas needs. But I'm glad you found a workaround.
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Post by elipie on Oct 16, 2012 4:06:31 GMT -5
I'm not really sure what category to post this under since a few programs are involved, but does anyone know any way to turn off the little Divx bug, or is there a certain codec you can use that will give you a good quality result without any bugs? Usually this isn't really an issue because it only appears at the beginning of the source, but I'm clipping within Final Cut Express, and every time I cut, the logo reappears at the beginning of that clip. The only solution I can think of is to clip in MPEG Streamclip and then import, but seeing as I already converted the whole movie using MPEG Streamclip to an AVI file before importing, I'm not sure if that will work. Please help!
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Post by obsessive24 on Oct 16, 2012 13:28:29 GMT -5
All I have is this super old guide but I understand it might not apply to Macs.
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Post by elipie on Oct 16, 2012 21:29:05 GMT -5
All I have is this super old guide but I understand it might not apply to Macs. Unfortunately not. Thanks for trying, though! I'm attempting to use different codecs now. Fingers crossed that something else will work! ETA: I'm an idiot. Exporting it to DV is the actual best thing ever. Not only is the picture high quality and bugless, but I don't have to render at all for normal playback. So many wins!
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Post by frayadjacent on Oct 17, 2012 9:24:30 GMT -5
Hooray! Glad that worked for you.
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