Remove unwanted sound

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jferris

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Hi
I'm an ex-premiere user and anytime I needed to remove a sound glitch in premiere I would simply separate the audio from the video, lock the video, use the razor tool and cut out the glitch, find a section of white noise to take its place and copy and paste. Done. How do you do this in Vegas? I can't seem to work with the audio without affecting the video. Sorry if I am overlooking a simple solution. Thanks.
 
Click on the audio clip and press "u" -- this unlocks it. If you want to re-lock it, select both the audio and the video and press "g."
 
You can also use the tab key in the trimmer to select only video or only audio or both before you bring a clip into the timeline.
 
There is also an icon at the top that "ignores event grouping". just click this, manipulate your audio, then unselect it and your audio and video are grouped again.
 
Thanks everyone. I can now cut out the unwanted audio but when I copy and try to paste a small section of room tone from the same clip the entire audio track to the right of the split ripples out of sync. I am just copying it, not cutting it. Is there a preferred method of removing and replacing small (1 second) glitches in audio? I realize that moving from Premiere to Vegas is going to be a bit of a challenge and I truly appreciate your help. Thank you.
 
You can load your clip in the trimmer and just select "audio only" for the segment you need.

That's one way to do it.
 
You can turn ripple off temporarily for that. Or manually move the first rippled clip back to where it belongs, so the rest ripple right back to where they should be.

Or put that replacement piece on a new track, if you want.
 
I tend to keep ripple OFF until I need it. Too many unexpected things happen when you leave it on as a default.
 
What David said. Leave ripple off until you need it (also an icon on the top toolbar that you can quickly toggle on and off) Ripple can be a horrible thing if you make a bunch of changes and don't notice it's on. Thank Sony Foundry for the new synchronize tool in vegas 6.
 
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I keep ripple off and I keep audio tracks separate for background, dialogue, music, and sfx.

I'm still on 5 -- what does the synchronize function do?
 
Can you believe this whole time I've never known what trimmer was good/used for? Thanks for the tips, and a ton of short cuts/ways to work with the audio, grouping, etc.

But what uhrgl said ... what's the sync function do?
 
sync function in vegas 6 shows you really clearly if audio is out of sync with its related video.
it shows up on the timeline in a pink color with red lettering to draw attention to itself.

you can then right click and synchronize it back by either "moving" or "slipping" automatically.

great function that is on the avid...and now our beloved vegas :)
 
Ah, THAT! Yes, I'd seen the pink, and realized it was telling me the audio was out of sync ... however, I didn't know anything about right clicking to help get it back in sync ... I'll have to try that out.

Thanks!
 
If an audio and video track get out of sync, they are highlighted in red. You can right click, and choose to synchronize them again by either moving or slipping the clip. That feature alone made it worth the upgrade during my work on Siren.
 
I'm not sure why you would use the trimmer. Isn't it just as easy to manipulate the clips on the timeline? Is there a real advantage to the trimmer?
 
I didn't know about the new audio/video sync alert feature in Vegas 6. I currently have V 5, but this may be the nudge I needed to upgrade.

BTW, I couldn't agree more with the above posts recommending leaving the auto ripple button "off". I have gotten into so much trouble leaving auto ripple on. Now, when I need a ripple edit, I go ahead and make the edit with auto ripple off, then go in "edit" and choose "post edit ripple". It works for me.
 
The trimmer rules, especially if you have long clips that you only need a portion of. I change my preferences so that doubleclicking a clip from the explorer loads it into the trimmer instead of the timeline, then I can quickly select just the part of the clip I need, I can quickly choose just audio or video, (the tab key cycles through them) and grab my selection in the trimmer and drag it to the timeline. I used Vegas for a year or so before I started using the trimmer, now I use it for everything.
 
Wow

Wow

Wow how do you guy NOT use the trimmer? I couldn't picture editing without it! I would hate to drop gigantic clips into the timeline and edit them down.... that's a pain.. especially cuz I sometimes leave the camera running between takes or get multiple takes per start/stop... and yeah... the ripple feature can be a pain sometimes... thank God for ctrl+z..
-Paul DV
 
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