To move the audio part of the event without moving the video select that audio event and press "g". That'll ungroup the audio and video.

Once you have them in sync select the two events and hit "g" again to regroup them.

To work on the audio you have to do it on a per track basis, add / modify FXs in the track header.

Ok guys thank for the reply.

I'm clear on all that but I have an .avi XviD in which I just want to prosses the audio and render it but want to save the video as is with the audio prossesed.

Is there a way to render the audio and keep the video untouched,

I just want to sync, eq,compress and limit the audio but keep the video intact.

If I understand what you are asking, you may process the audio track seperately and then do a FILE/RENDER AS and save the audio only as a WAV file, then you will have a seperate audio file.

OR you may process the audio and save the file in the same format as the original AVI and the video will not be affected if you use the same CODEC.

plasmavideo you got that right but,in the case I have the audio file rendered how I can mix it with the original video without having to render the video file.

I just wanna keep the original vid cos it's special sharp/clarity ,so even rendering to the same exact format I guess it'll loose.

This is one of those (rare) instances where Vegas isn't the tool you need.

Instead you can use VirtualDub, a free utilty that is intended for just this sort of thing and should be in every video editor's toolkit. Once you have massaged the audio how you want it (perhaps in Vegas, or perhaps in some other audio app) render it out as a wav file. Then open the original Xvid .avi in VirtualDub and choose "Direct Stream Copy" on the Video tab and "Full Processing mode", "WAV audio", and a suitable audio compression codec on the Audio tab and point it at your massaged audio file. Then choose "Save as AVI" and VirtualDub will create a new avi file containing the original video steam from your Xvid avi and a new audio stream from the massaged wav file you gave it.

Mark

Mark,

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if you do absolutely nothing to the video in Vegas, but make corrections to the audio, shouldn't it save out the video identical to the original, without recompressing, if you use the same codec, and merely "restripe" the audio?

No, I don't beleive so - to the best of my knowledge Vegas can only do this if the video is a DV avi. As far as I am aware, any other kind of video will always be recompressed, even if you have done nothing to the video stream.

Mark

Thanks Mark.

Sounds like good old Virtual Dub to the rescue! You are right - it belongs on every editing machine.

Thanks Mark for the great help!!
I was just checking the prog and what you said is totally true and clear,great lil' proggie.
I'm also trying to sync the A/V and reading the manual didn't show any way to shift the audio only,or maybe I'm wrong?

You can also process the audio without touching the video on Cineform avis if they are either captured with ConnectHD using the "smartrender" option or rendered from from Vegas. This is yet another reason why I like the Cineform Codec so much.

You can also right click the Audio and open it in the audio editor of your choice.


For example if I right the audio portion of an avi file, I can select "Open in Sound Forge" or "Open a copy in Sound Forge." If I open a copy, my changes are saved as a take.

As far as I know that isn't possible with VirtualDub, but there's no need to anyway.

After you have done your audio sweetening, just do the syncing of the audio to the video in Vegas, where you can see/hear what you are doing nicely. Once you have got all the modifications to the audio done in Vegas (including, eq, compression, re-syncing, etc) render out the final audio track as a separate WAV and use VirtualDub to create the final avi with the original video and the final audio.

Mark

Thanks a lot Mark,your help is highly appreciated.

People like you make this forums usefull.

And thank to all that replied too.

What is it you're trying to do to the audio (to require bringing it up in another editor? There are few extreme cases where one might need to use another editor, just curious to see what this reason might be.

You might want to think about adding some quality plug-ins (Waves, etc) for sound editing, and use them on the audio track(s) in vegas. Or use the stock plugins if that's all you have. No need to open in another editor.