rookie ?

glk7243 wrote on 8/27/2004, 3:42 PM
I have been figuring out most of the stuff on the video side but I am totally lost on the audio. How do I fade audio in or out at the beginning or end of song. How do I adjust volumes up or down in the middle of a track, For example I need to lower volume when a subject is talking or raise the volume of the track with the person talking.
Thanks for your time
Gary

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MJhig wrote on 8/27/2004, 6:39 PM
How do I fade audio in or out at the beginning or end of song.

The same way you fade video, grab the upper corner of the event and drag down and toward the center.

How do I adjust volumes up or down in the middle of a track,

Insert Volume Envelope, C&P Volume Envelop into the help search for a detailed description including pics if I remember correctly.

MJ

B.Verlik wrote on 8/27/2004, 8:06 PM
Right click on your audio track. It becomes darker. Go to 'Insert' tab and then 'audio envelope' and then 'volume'. This will create a blue line running in the middle of the track. If you right click on the line, you can add a 'point'. Add two points and then move one of them up or down. This will change the volume and tell you what it is. You can 'zoom' into the track, using the '+' button on the window surrounding the tracks, and be very precise.
glk7243 wrote on 8/27/2004, 9:41 PM
I appreciate your help. I'll go to the shop tomorrow and give it a try.

Thanks for your time
Gary
glk7243 wrote on 8/28/2004, 11:03 PM
It worked just like you said.
Thank you very much
Gary
PeterVred wrote on 8/31/2004, 5:13 AM
A quick way to lower volumes on the occational too loud note in a track, the easy thing for me is to "split" the track just before and after the note, and drag the top of the event piece down.
To split a track, zoom in to a silent spot, and hit the S key, any event that is highlighted when you hit S will be split.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 8/31/2004, 3:59 PM
Also suggest a quick read thru the manual or help might be in order ....

geoff
mhbstevens wrote on 9/1/2004, 6:10 PM
This guy asked a basic question, but note how polite he was to tell us he was a rookie and to expect a rookie question.

I just hate it when people ask basic questions that could be answerd before they get to page 30 of the manuel but title the questiont like it was some involved pro-only thing. I wonder if many of these people have bootleg copies and just don't have a manuel.

Mike
B.Verlik wrote on 9/1/2004, 11:59 PM
In response to mhbstevens, This may be the case, but I also know that I was basically brand new to computers, period, just 20 months ago and I couldn't remember anything that I was learning and just wished I could ask a question instead of wasting hours trying to remember where I saw something. I've printed out hundreds of pages of instructions and hardly ever go back to some of those manuals because I waste so much time looking. A lot of terms are completely alien, when your brand new to this. I have no teachers and I can't afford lessons or classes to learn. Even to this day, if I use a search engine to look for something, I almost always ask for something that 'can't be found'. You cant' imagine how much time I wasted trying to burn my 1st DVD, using the supplied 'Sonic My DVD' software that came with my Pioneer A05. 2 months later, I discovered normal resolution was not possible unless I upgraded, through Sonic My DVD. I vowed I'd never buy a product from them. Only a coincidence that Vegas was made by 'Sonic' Foundry (similar name) It was 7 months from my 1st computer to buying Vegas and it was 1 year before I finally discovered this forum. (I kept wasting time trying to get help from Sony) These simpleton questions are about the only ones I can answer, but I do it because I remember how much I wished I could just ask a question instead wasting a lot of time trying to look it up. I figure that the 'Spots' and 'farss' guys will answer the hard stuff and I'll at least help these 'too lazy to get out the manual' guys. Sometimes you need to hear something from a different approach to understand too. To me, they should have included some VCDs with some basic lessons for the money I spent. If you were brought up, using computers since you were a child, then I imagine any new software is rather easy to learn, but an old fart like me? I bet I waste a heck of a lot of time doing things my own way instead of the correct way. (Like answering questions with a ridiculous long response, instead of the one line responses most people use.) I'd bet that there are some 'Hot' versions out there, but when I bought mine, I had to basically re-download the entire program to get a working version and that required my S/N and the 'go ahead' from Sonic Foundry. Plus, I downloaded the Vegas 3.0 and 4.0 manuals long before I bought the software. ( I think I only skimmed through them the day I downloaded them and not again until I bought the software.) The manuals may be easy to experienced computer or video software users, but they seem very basic to me and some of the explainations are not that easy for the inexperienced. ( there should be about 500 more pages) Oh well, you probably stopped reading a long time ago........... I'm vented.