I apologize for the tangential nature of this post, but I am hoping for a linux-based solution and I don't know where else to ask right now.
I have a video of a talk that is spattered with very loud, ear-wrenching, bursts of static at random intervals. There are quite a few of these bursts (on average, probably one every 20-30 seconds), and they are at least one order of magnitude louder than the important audio. It seems like it should be a simple matter to normalize the volume so that it is possible to listen to the audio. I've come to terms with the fact that the underlying audio is lost during these bursts of static, but I would at least like to make it possible to listen to the stream without blasting static randomly. Does anyone know how to do this? I've stripped the audio and played with it in audacity, but I don't know enough to make the options do what needs done -- the best I've been able to do is to generate a noise profile for a section of static, then use that to reduce the static of each individual section. This requires manually selecting the portion of the audio wave that corresponds to the burst of static and re-running the noise filter for *every* burst. That simply doesn't scale to the full length of the video--it would be easier to simply re-record the talk (which would loose audience commentary, etc...). I would be very appreciative of any suggestions or pointers to audio editing communities that may be able to help. I also have a short sample of the video I could share off-list if you'd like to take a closer look. Thanks! Rogan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
