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Subject:Surround Indicator?? Posted by: Rednroll Date:1/9/2003 11:37:39 AM I just started playing around with the surround panning within ACID 4.0 to get use to how it works, since it will probably be coming shortly in Vegas 4.0. To make automated Pan moves, it looks like you use "Key frame" markers. The only problem I'm having with this is that the "surround Panner" window does not update with the changing of keyframes. It would be usefull to see the surround panner window automate during playback so you know exactly where the image is at, during any given time. Is there a way to do this, that I haven't dug into yet? Currently it looks like the only way I'm able to SEE where the sound is currently panned at is by clicking on the "keyframe". Is this the only way?
Subject:RE: Surround Indicator?? Reply by: CDM Date:1/9/2003 4:20:57 PM Red - It should show you where the panning is at any given time (but NOT as it's playing) provided you drop the edit cursor where you want to see the panning and that you haven't accidentally created Hold keyframes as opposed to linear, smooth, fast, slow, etc. On my system, wherever I drop the cursor, I see the updated pan location in the surround panner.
Subject:RE: Surround Indicator?? Reply by: Rednroll Date:1/9/2003 5:59:34 PM Ok, I think I'm understanding it a little more now. I wanted to create a circle Pan and am currently not on a surround monitoring system, so I really had no way of telling if this is what it is really doing. I will probably have to crack the manual out and try it out some more, then burn a CD and take it into my car, which has a surround sound system in it to verify it's doing what I'm intending it to do. I was just thinking it would be really useful if the little orange block in the surround panner window would move around in a circle as it's playing back.......Well I guess that's my feature request for now then. Thanks for the help Charles, Red

Subject:Surround Indicator??

Posted by: Rednroll

Date:1/9/2003 11:37:39 AM

I just started playing around with the surround panning within ACID 4.0 to get use to how it works, since it will probably be coming shortly in Vegas 4.0. To make automated Pan moves, it looks like you use "Key frame" markers.

The only problem I'm having with this is that the "surround Panner" window does not update with the changing of keyframes. It would be usefull to see the surround panner window automate during playback so you know exactly where the image is at, during any given time. Is there a way to do this, that I haven't dug into yet? Currently it looks like the only way I'm able to SEE where the sound is currently panned at is by clicking on the "keyframe". Is this the only way?

Subject:RE: Surround Indicator??

Reply by: CDM

Date:1/9/2003 4:20:57 PM

Red -
It should show you where the panning is at any given time (but NOT as it's playing) provided you drop the edit cursor where you want to see the panning and that you haven't accidentally created Hold keyframes as opposed to linear, smooth, fast, slow, etc.

On my system, wherever I drop the cursor, I see the updated pan location in the surround panner.

Subject:RE: Surround Indicator??

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:1/9/2003 5:59:34 PM

Ok, I think I'm understanding it a little more now. I wanted to create a circle Pan and am currently not on a surround monitoring system, so I really had no way of telling if this is what it is really doing. I will probably have to crack the manual out and try it out some more, then burn a CD and take it into my car, which has a surround sound system in it to verify it's doing what I'm intending it to do. I was just thinking it would be really useful if the little orange block in the surround panner window would move around in a circle as it's playing back.......Well I guess that's my feature request for now then.

Thanks for the help Charles,
Red