Thanks, Hermann! I'm not sure that xjadeo is (i) easily added to my Fedora 10 system, or (ii) necessary for the caliber of work I'm doing.
But I will invest in learning Ardour, based on your kind advice. (My experience so far has been Audacity - and, on Windows, Cakewalk. Audacity has been a disappointment, but Ardour appears much more powerful.) My goal is 'merely' to have some mash-up of musical themes to go with various scenes and dialog; that is, I don't need to Foley any sfx to an individual frame-level of precision. So I think I can manage without xjadeo. Thanks again! On 2009-06-01 21:23, Ichthyostega wrote: > John Detwiler schrieb: > > Looking for advice and suggestions on audio editing.... > ... > > It seems to me that keyframing the audio 'fade' will be a tedious method of > > bringing the music levels up and down (as the dialog comes and goes, etc.) > > looks like you want to bring the level up and down very frequently, > which bears the danger of brining in nervosity. A common approach is > to try to mix the music in a way that it can be combined with speach, > i.e. not so much using the middle freqency range 1kHz - 5kHz within > the music bed, so it doesn't disturb speech intelligibility so much. > > Nevertheless, sound editing is a laborious task and I'd follow the > advice to try to do the fine tuning work in a dedicated application > (e.g. Ardour + xjadeo) > > > (3) Learn how to use 'shared tracks' (which are a total mystery to me) to do > > something more clever, which might involve 'compressing' the audio > > automagically? > > I don't think they are overly useful as they are right now; but they might be > a very powerful feature, if the handling was better and the user had more > control about the behaviour. If you don't look into the code, they indeed > behave completely mysterious and un-obvious. If you do look into the code, > you'll realize that they are a rather cheap spin-off from the > inner workings of the Cinelerra engine: they are not so much a "routing" > feature, rahter what happens is that a part of the "render pipeline" of > one track is re-used in the context of another track (buffer). > > Cheers, > Hermann > > > > > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
