From the course: Sony Vegas Production Workflow
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Audio editing basics
Like Vegas, Sound Forge is an editor. In other words, you can use it to cut, to paste, to add to and remove from your audio files, as well as add fade-ins, and fade-outs. You can also use it to increase your audio's volume or gain level, and then, make adjustments to specific channels or frequencies. When you open a media file in Sound Forge, you're not opening a project, you're opening a file itself. You do that by File > Open, in this case I'm going to open a recently opened file, that music file Silent Charm. You can also save workspaces in Sound Forge, and a workspace is similar to a project but not quite. And you can save those by going to Workspace > Save As. So if you're, have a work in progress, so you've got an audio file that you've added effects to but you haven't saved over that audio file yet, you can save the workspace this way and then re-open the workspace. So workspace, a little bit different than opening the file itself. Otherwise, when you open a file in Sound…
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Transferring a Vegas audio track to Sound Forge2m 49s
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The Sound Forge interface and window layouts4m 12s
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Audio editing basics10m 11s
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Cleaning up audio with Noise Gate, Dynamics, and the normalizer10m 35s
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Using a plugin chain rather than adding effects directly to a file5m 54s
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Transferring your finished audio from Sound Forge back to Vegas4m 50s
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Adding Sound Forge audio as a Vegas event "take"4m 3s
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