Audio Peaks in Vegas (I know... another one)

AerithReborn · Post by **AerithReborn** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:20 am

Last night I was working on a video in Vegas using a .m4a audio file. Yeah, I ripped the CD through iTunes. It was working fine last night, but this morning, when I opened the file to see if my 3AM ideas really were as good as I thought they were (lol), I got an "error codec" message and all of my peaks were gone. The music still plays, but I definately need peaks for timing. I'm trying to restart it now, to see if it fixes it.

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Nope, nothing.... It is, however, trying to render audio for a clip that doesn't use its audio.

.mp3 is working fine, so do I need to convert my .m4a to .mp3, or just go with .wav? I have very limited space for my files, I'd like to add...

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:33 am

.wav would be preferable

AerithReborn · Post by **AerithReborn** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:41 am

I don't know what I did, but I was trying to make an .mp3 so that I could upload that into BeSweet. I was saving my .m4a in Vegas (which showed peaks in a new document) and I switched back over to my other doc, and THERE IT WAS! I don't know what I did to fix it, but it works now.

What the hell just happened?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:43 am

i dont know but if its working then its working i guess?

either way .wav is usually the preferred audio format for amv editing

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:09 pm

Just so you know, if you're editing with compressed audio (MP3, m4a, etc.) and you export the audio as a .wav, and then recompress it for the final video it's going to sound like utter shit. You can get around this by not making any changes to the audio while you edit, and then just use the same source you edited with to mux with your video (probably won't work too well with m4a, sadly), but like JaddziaDax said, .wav is definitely preferable. And this means the .wav file ripped directly from the CD, not a .wav that you uncompressed from an MP3/m4a file.