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Audio & Video FX
I recently video taped our local “Big Band” and currently preparing a DVD for them. One tune they played was from the 1920’s called “Old Time Rock & Roll”. For fun, I tried the “old film” Video FX, which leads to two questions;
1) Can the FX be used for just a short time at the beginning of the event, or does it have to stay active for the entire event? After a short period I would like to “fade” from the old film look to the current look.
2) Is there a similar FX for the audio? I would like the audio track to sound like a 1920’s recording in sync with the video FX, for the same short time. (If it’s any help, I have Sound Forge Audio Studio v9, but have never used it.) -
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Yes, Put your curser at the point where you want it to change to normal, click on the video event there, and hit the s key. this slits the event there. you can the click on the event effects Icon located and the far right of each event, in your case click the one that plays first, add your film effect to that event only. Then to get it to fade to normal, put your curser at the beginning of the second event and drag it so it overlaps the first a little, the overlap length will determine the fade to normal time. You can treat your audio tracks the same way. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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Thank you Danny,
I hadn’t used the event splitting feature before. It works well with the video FX I was trying to create.
Regarding the audio; I’ve searched the audio plug-in manager looking for a plug-in that would make my audio track sound like it was recorded in the 1920’s. The plug-ins are not well documented so short of trying every one, are you aware of one that will do what I’m looking for? Maybe there is a 3rd party plug-in.Thanks again,
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Off the top of my head, I don’t know either. I would roll off some of the high and low frequencies to emulate the poorly made mics from thos days, and I would search for some record pops and clicks waves, or some static, and put it on another audio track in time with the part you want to sound old. Mix to taste, understand? Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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