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[Brightguy]

I'm starting a video edit compilation and want to clean up some of the audio tracks, (EQ, etc..) I've been doing it in audio only projects on Roxio for some time, but have not discovered the steps (if any) to take the audio track from a video project and work with it. Any suggestions?

I've done it for 36+ years professionally, but this is my first attempt on Roxio...

[sknis]

Brightguy, on 23 December 2011 - 07:20 PM, said:

I'm starting a video edit compilation and want to clean up some of the audio tracks, (EQ, etc..) I've been doing it in audio only projects on Roxio for some time, but have not discovered the steps (if any) to take the audio track from a video project and work with it. Any suggestions?

I've done it for 36+ years professionally, but this is my first attempt on Roxio...

I'll assume that you are using Video Wave to do the compliation  - if not, that is what you should be using. Make sure you are in timeline.  Select the video section you want to work with and then select  "show/hide option" and then select "Native track". A rudimentary audio tuning application will open.

The following images are from a later version but what you get should be the same.

Open native audio





Open Audio Editor

Edited by sknis, 24 December 2011 - 05:01 AM.

[Brightguy]

SKNIS: Thank you ! I would like to do more, but that is a big help...If it's in the book, I missed it. I'm learning to apply my audio post thinking to this rather rudimentary form...but I'm spoiled, having had tens to hundreds of thousands in budget and literally millions in equipment along with wonderful, skilled professionals to work with me...I really appreciate your taking the time to open this door for me.

Have a Great holiday.

[sknis]

Brightguy, on 24 December 2011 - 06:06 AM, said:

SKNIS: Thank you ! I would like to do more, but that is a big help...If it's in the book, I missed it. I'm learning to apply my audio post thinking to this rather rudimentary form...but I'm spoiled, having had tens to hundreds of thousands in budget and literally millions in equipment along with wonderful, skilled professionals to work with me...I really appreciate your taking the time to open this door for me.

Have a Great holiday.

You could do more but it is a lot more work.  You have to do it one a file by file basis.

Navigate to where your videos are stored on your computer.  (Browse Media is the tool to use).  Right click on the file and select extract audio.  Name it and place it where you will remember where it is.  It will be saved as a wav file.

Use whatever audio editor you want to clean up the audio and re-save it as a wav file (16 bit).  I don't remember is Creator 2009 standard edition came with one. But you may have Bias Sound Soap if that was the freebie.  If not, just use what you are familiar with.

Now you have a couple of choices.  Put the video file into Video Wave time line , mute the native audio track and then add that wav file on the music track.  It should match up perfectly with the video file.  Output that to a mpg2 for DVD file for later use.   If you are going to edit the files, do it on the newly combined file since the audio will be part of that file.

You could edit the file in Video Wave and then output it to a mpg2 for DVD file and then extract the audio from that edited file.

You could add several files where you extracted the audio and then add the cleaned up audio to the internal track of each of the individual files on the timeline.  

Just don't extract the audio, clean it up, add the video and edit it and then try to match up the audio.     I'm sure that is a no brainer!

Happy Holidays !

Edited by sknis, 24 December 2011 - 06:25 AM.

[Brightguy]

Great follow up..I'll try it. I'm assuming that as long as I save editing until after I re-marry audio/video that the fixed audio will drop right back in in sync.

I'm so accustomed to using time code as a reference for maintaining sync that, I'm cautiously going to try this after I've libraried a clone of the original material.

Continued thanks.