Semi OT: Recording CDs from Vegas 6/7?

mjroddy wrote on 3/31/2007, 4:01 PM

I recently purchased a Numar USB turntable and am in the SSSLLLLOOOWWW process of digitizing my old albums, with the idea in mind of burning them to CD for archival and my listening pleasure (not to mention pure nostalgia). I've put them (the resulting WAV files) on a Sound Forge timeline and made regions for each track (not easy on some of that old classical rock, where they bled one song into the next).
Unfortunately, burning that resulting project to a CD does not give individual tracks, but rather one long track.
I get the same results in Vegas 6 (haven't tried in 7 yet).
I installed an old copy of CD Architect, but now I can't find my serial number.
Am I flat-out-of-luck here?

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RickD wrote on 3/31/2007, 4:40 PM

I have never used Vegas for creating a CD but based on what I see in the online help it shouldn't be any problem at all.

Basically, when creating a new project you should specify that it is a CD project (it's the last tab on the new project wizard. After that you need to load the wave files into the project media list, right click on each one and select 'Add as CD Track.' This procedure guarantees that a track marker is inserted and two seconds of silence are added between tracks.

I'm not sure about this but it looks like you can also just put your wave files on the timeline and then add track markers. From the Insert menu select "Audio CD Track Index."

Sorry I can't give more explicit help but it does look very easy to do and it's all there in the online help.

fldave wrote on 3/31/2007, 4:54 PM

"last tab on the new project wizard" LOL, I didn't know there was a wizard!

I can't give you specifics, either, as it has been since V4 I think since I burned a CD in Vegas. The thing I wanted to mention is to look thru the project settings to turn off the "two seconds of silence" part, as you probably will have the original silence between the songs in the long recording of the side.

donp wrote on 3/31/2007, 5:09 PM

If you put the tracks on the Vegas time line just separate each track with a little space and then do the markers as is said above and when you burn the CD it will burn as separate tracks. I havn't done any vinal yet but I have used this process to break tracks from cassette tapes I have put on CD.

mjroddy wrote on 3/31/2007, 5:33 PM

Thanks everyone!
I'm off to see the Wizard!

bStro wrote on 3/31/2007, 5:39 PM

I think you're looking for Audio CD Track Regions. Select a section you want for a track and hit your "N" key. Or go to Insert -> Audio CD Track Region.

Rob

mjroddy wrote on 4/1/2007, 12:41 AM

Yep. That's it exactly Rob - and the rest of you who set me on the right path. I now have two CDs from my LPs. So the quest has officially started for me to archive my collection. Should be fun listening to some of that old stuff.
My question now is, can the regions be Named?
I am guessing, no.
I went ahead an named each track/region with the name of the song in that track. When I played it back in Windows Media Player, it only showed the song position (1, 2, 3, etc), and not the title I so carefully found.
Is that the way of the world?

Thanks again for all the help. I'm quite happy that there is a Vegas solution.

Chienworks wrote on 4/1/2007, 4:23 AM

CD Architect lets you store the track name, i believe. I don't think Vegas does.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/1/2007, 5:58 AM

Yes, you can burn a CD with individually named tracks using Vegas. I've done it a few times myself for clients. Just refer to the manual for "easy to follow" instructions.

mjroddy wrote on 4/1/2007, 2:35 PM

Hi Jay.
I tried the on-line manual and followed their directions (View ->Edit Details), and renamed the tracks as directed. After burning, however, and playing in Windows Media Player, I still only get track numbers.
You pretty sure this can be done in Vegas?

farss wrote on 4/1/2007, 2:37 PM

Windows Media Player does not read CD Text without a plugin. It gets track data from an external database.
Very few things read CD Text, the CD Player in Plextools does.
Bob.

mjroddy wrote on 4/1/2007, 2:59 PM

Ah... Thanks Bob.
That's why it reads my store bought CDs and even many of my Music Bakery stock music CDs; it's getting that data from "an external source," I suppose.

Thanks again, one and all.

farss wrote on 4/1/2007, 3:15 PM

To get WMP to display CD Text you need a program called "CD-Text Manager", don't have any more details than that as I just pulled that from the CDA forum. Plenty of good info there as CD Architect does CD Text reasonably well.
From what I've seen very few commercial CDs seem to have CD text and not all burners will burn CD text it seems. I always burn it using CDA, got CDA as a freebie with SF, great progam even though you can do pretty much the same in Vegas I just find it easier on the old grey cells to shift to another app for the mastering.
For what it's worth CDA was the standard for CD Audio burning.

winst548 wrote on 4/1/2007, 3:26 PM

Another medium is transfering from LP to DVD Audio with much better quality
using discwelder bronz with 24bit 48 - 192khz sampling