Stretch/Time-Compress in Vegas 9

mattanthonyVO wrote on 10/13/2010, 8:11 AM
Perhaps it's something that I'm not doing, but I'm having a heck of a time with the Stretch/Time-Compress feature in Vegas 9. I highlight the audio file in question, press "CONTROL" and move it to the left. (I record top-of-hour IDs for radio stations and most of them have to be :10 on the nose!) I upgraded from Vegas 6 and NEVER had an issue, but in 9, I have all kinds of artifacts. (everything "stretched" sounds like it has a "chorus" effect on it) Is there something in "settings" that I should be aware of? Help! Thanks!

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gwailo wrote on 10/13/2010, 8:23 AM
Vegas 9 introduced a new time / pitch shift engine called elastique

When they introduced this feature, there are now 2 engines, and all the clips that are stretched default to using no engine at all, so everything stretched sounds like shit

so you have to right click the clip - click properties - switch the engine / mode

Vegas 10 they fixed this and it defaults to elastique efficient

There are internal preferences for default time stretch engine in 10 but not in 9

Does anyone know what secret number I need to put in the internal preferences to get Elastique - Speech ?
RobFrazier wrote on 10/14/2010, 11:40 AM
I am having the same issue as you Matt only I upgraded from Vegas 6 to Vegas 10. Not sure if this applies to you, but here is what I have discovered in one morning of poking around in Vegas 10:

If you right click the region/event that you are stretching, click "Properties" and then click on the "Audio Event" tab you will see (in 10 anyways) some Time shift/Pitch shift controls. I also edit voice for radio and this is what I've found works the closest to the old V6 timestretch;

Method: elastique
Stretch Attributes: Soloist

This seems to do the trick.

MY ISSUE/QUESTION: How do I set this as the default Time Stretch setting? Kind of a hassle to have to go through this procedure for every single event. Anyone know? It should be noted that the options in event properties and Project Audio properties are different.