I have noticed two problems in Vegas that make editing Surround material difficult:
* 5.1 audio can be imported to Vegas, but it is divided into 5 separate tracks that need to have their speakers configured correctly. This makes editing 5.1 material rather unwieldy.
* If a 5.1 Surround Vegas project is nested into another 5.1 project, its audio is actually flattened to stereo, making it impossible to combine multiple 5.1 projects into one 5.1 compilation, unless those are rendered into intermediate 5.1 videos first.
The suggested solution would be an audio track that is natively in 5.1. It's displayed as a single track (maybe with 6 channels visible), but can only be assigned to the Surround Master bus. It cannot be panned nor its pan animated, but individual speakers could be turned off. Any 5.1 video material (including 5.1 Vegas projects) would get this kind of a track for their audio, and any 5.1 audio files could be dragged to these. 5.1 audio event clips could be split, faded and crossfaded like any other audio event. Switches like Mute, Reverse, Normalize etc would apply, but there would also be special Channels options: one (selected) channel only, Combine to Stereo and Combine to Mono.
Would this be feasible?
* 5.1 audio can be imported to Vegas, but it is divided into 5 separate tracks that need to have their speakers configured correctly. This makes editing 5.1 material rather unwieldy.
* If a 5.1 Surround Vegas project is nested into another 5.1 project, its audio is actually flattened to stereo, making it impossible to combine multiple 5.1 projects into one 5.1 compilation, unless those are rendered into intermediate 5.1 videos first.
The suggested solution would be an audio track that is natively in 5.1. It's displayed as a single track (maybe with 6 channels visible), but can only be assigned to the Surround Master bus. It cannot be panned nor its pan animated, but individual speakers could be turned off. Any 5.1 video material (including 5.1 Vegas projects) would get this kind of a track for their audio, and any 5.1 audio files could be dragged to these. 5.1 audio event clips could be split, faded and crossfaded like any other audio event. Switches like Mute, Reverse, Normalize etc would apply, but there would also be special Channels options: one (selected) channel only, Combine to Stereo and Combine to Mono.
Would this be feasible?