This is hard for me to explain without showing what I mean. I'll use an example. Say I record an audio track(vocal) and I start it with plenty of room for pre roll and to get myself ready. In between, the track has some down time(i.e a vocal track is doing nothing while the solo guitar takes the spotlight) and at the end of the recorded take, I let the track record well after the vocal note has reduced to zero ( I wanted to get everyleast bit of it's nuance). If, after saving the track and useing it as the active one, can I simply put the mouse on the begining of the track and roll it up to start playback where I start singing and at the end, can I clean up the silent end of the track by doing the same? Will this make Vegas stop reading the track at exactly where it ends so it isn't working to read parts of the rolled up (no longer present on the track view) audio file? Or, do I have to split the audio(vocal for example) file and delete the silent part? Am I clear as to my quiery? I don't want to ask the ram or harddrive to work harder than they have to.
Just trying to run a semi-tight ship before I have problems.
What do you know.