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denno
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January 28, 2019
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Continued advice, please....I want to improve the sound on concert video

  • January 28, 2019
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Hello again.

A month ago I received some helpful stuff on working with PE 13, and I have obtained a copy of Steve's book.

Think I will be able to learn it.

PART TWO of my need-to-learn:  How to work with the audio in the video, which is a coffee house concert.
I have glanced into the book and so forth, and I don't think PE contains what I need.

I have this video of two of us playing guitar and singing, and making remarks ("Patter," to my fellow dinosaurs.)

It was shot on a stationary SONY something-or-other, which served pretty well.  But the audio is not always clear.  Much of that is my performance.  This vid is actually teaching me I have to relearn to hit my consonants better, be conscious of my volume---MOST especially when I am talking.

Making better product is a certain aim, but it's a hell of a learning curve, or else get someone really professional in to do the recording.

Meanwhile, I need this video, the decent parts of it, as a demo to send to other venues.

Pretty sure that a general increase in the loudness of the audio will help a deal; but that EQing will help another deal.

I do not see where PE13 has a lot of ability.  It has, looks like, some ability to make it louder, and a 2-band EQ (treble and bass), and some kind of presets to make the "Narration"  or the "Music" dominant.

Here's what I think I need, if you are still with me (I know I'm being yakky!)   I need a way to work on the audio as it plays and I can hear the changes.

I imagine that there's some other program that contains tools for both audio and video (Filmora kind of does, but still don't hear realtime change, or much change at all).  Otherwise, some outside program that will pull off the audio, work with it, and put it back in.   Or you pull off the audio and then put the altered sound back as a substitute audio track, through some miracle of synchronization.    How'm I doin'?  Got to the point at last?

Can anyone advise me on this?

Thanks

denno

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Peru Bob
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January 28, 2019

Adobe Audition or the free Audacity can be used to edit audio.

I wouldn't expect miracles, however.  A bad recording can be impossible to fix.  External microphones are what is needed in situations like yours.

denno
dennoAuthor
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January 29, 2019

Hi
I have used Audacity some.  I don't know that it will play a video.  (I can easily try that.)  So I'd need to extract the audio and then...

How to put it back in?

OK, I see a video showing a guy extracting the audio from a video into Audacity (not sure how).  Still doesn't seem to have the equivalent of a 30-band EQ.

Not sure about this function in Audition, either.  Suppose there is some way to do it.

One of the vid editors I'm trying to learn  (trying to figure out which one to learn!) is able to boost the volume to some degree.  It improves the result as to being able to hear better.  If I can do some thorough sound-tinkering, I will likely get something useful out of this vid.

Peru Bob
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January 29, 2019

denno  wrote

If I can do some thorough sound-tinkering, I will likely get something useful out of this vid.

I hope you do.  Best of luck.