Frame By Frame Audio Scrubbing?

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BullMooseFilms

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A bit of background before my question, if I may be indulged.

I've been a Vegas user (and defender) since version 4. I've just installed V9 on Win 7 64 and managed to get my massive feature film loaded up and working.

The last year I've been at a film school that required us to get MacBook Pros and work with FCP (as well as AVID on campus). So I've become famillar with these 3 platforms. I stick with FCP for school stuff because we have HVXes and I have no $ for Raylight.

I still like working on Vegas though. But one feature of FCP I have found very useful that either isn't in Vegas or I just haven't found how to activate it is frame by frame audio. As in, when you use the arrow key to advance a single frame you also hear the corresponding audio.

I know that when you grab the cursor with your mouse and drag you can get a kind of audio scrub, but I don't find this very useful. Often times I want to do dialogue cuts and I need to be able to hear when they're starting a word or syllable etc, and the only way to really do this is the frame by frame sort of thing.

I'd love to be able to stop telling people that "Vegas is great except for..."
 
It's one thing Vegas doesn't do.

However, Vegas does have much more finely-detailed waveforms and you can zoom in much further, so you can see your audio pretty much down to the sample. It's not difficult to pick out individual syllables or even letter sounds once you've practiced at it a little bit.
 
Thanks, David.

I was sure if I was just missing this feature you would know! I am pretty good at just hitting the spacebar at the right moment after listening a few times, but I get lazy using that feature in FCP. I still wouldnt trade Vegas for it either...
 
David Jimerson said:
It's one thing Vegas doesn't do.

However, Vegas does have much more finely-detailed waveforms and you can zoom in much further, so you can see your audio pretty much down to the sample. It's not difficult to pick out individual syllables or even letter sounds once you've practiced at it a little bit.
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Doing it this way is way more accurate/fast as well.
 
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