It had worked fine, at least under Vegas 1, now with Vegas 2, which I recently installed, the sound is distorted. Not a level thing, I'm sure. .Wav, RealMedia and WMF all render ok.
I have seen this happen frequently when Vegas Pro 1.0 and Vegas 2.0 are installed on the same machine. Please uninstall both programs and then reinstall only Vegas 2.0. Please contact tech support if the problem still occurs after doing this.
So I tried what you said and then I was in a fix because the project I'm working on started in Vegas Pro 1 using the inline EQ and compression. When I uninstalled Vegas 1 they were gone. So I ended up having to re-install Pro-1 just to get those plugins back; otherwise my mix would be useless.
Is there no way to uninstall pro-1 and keep the plugins? I'm back to my original situation, an hour and a half later...
Those same plugins should definitely be available in Version 2.0. Click on the Track FX button. Then Click on the "plugin chain button". Goto The "Track Optimized FX" folder and you will see a list of FX's. You need the "Sonic Foundry Vegas EQ" and the "Sonic Foundry Vegas Compressor" Click on each of these and hit the "Add" button.
Here's the rub: if I do that, won't I have lost all the compression and eq settings that I had on those tracks previously?
I guess I could save each and every setting to a preset and then recall them after doing what you said, but what a mess for a 36 or so track song! And what about any other Vegas projects I choose to recall from the past?
This seems like a very legitimate, reproducible bug.
And I say that as a programmer. (Who's made plenty of my own...)