Hi everyone: Chris wrote: > > Audacity is problematic... I've gone on ad nauseum in this forum about > audio problems similar to yours, and Audacity looked for a moment like > it might be the bright light at the end of the tunnel.
I could on and on ad nauseum too on how Audacity reduces such things as hiss, hum and other anomalies, but I won't. > The good news: Audacity can easily zap out a consistent background > noise to the point where there's dead silence between bursts of dialogue. True BUT.... > The godawful news: It will more than likely leave your actors sounding > tinny and distorted. Emphasis on the words GAWD AWFUL here!! It can also leave them sound like they've got sand in their mouths too. > What you can do in Audacity, instead of relying on its "Noise Removal" > feature, is play around with different degrees of "Low Pass" and > "Amplify" until you minimize the background noise (or at least make > the actor's voice jump out more). I don't even do that. In fact, I don't even use Audacity AT ALL. I use either Cool Edit Pro 2002 (The predecessor to Adobe Audition) or GoldWave. GoldWave may be a little slower, but it does a better job. Cheers :D -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page - http://asmyworldturnstv.blogspot.com/ BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/20453 AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com PAT'S REAL DEAL VIDEO BLOG - http://patsrealdeal.livejournal.com/ PAT'S HEALTH & MEDICAL WONDERS VIDEOCAST - http://patshealthmedicalwondersvideocast.blogspot.com/ YOUTUBE CHANNEL - http://www.youtube.com/amwowttv/ THE PAT COOK SHOW - http://www.livevideo.com/thepcshow THE PAT COOK SHOW (Video Podcast) - Blogger Page - http://thepctvshow.blogspot.com/ - BlogTV Page - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/19924 **COMING SOON** - PAT'S CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS VIDEO PODCAST - http://patsclassictvcommercials-ipod.blogspot.com/ (iPod), http://patsclassictvcommercials-flash.blogspot.com/ (Flash)
