• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Voice Isolation

  Posted by Chip Hess on April 11, 2012 at 4:31 pm

  So I have a client giving me video with music married to the voice track. Raw footage is allegedly unavailable. We need to recut, but that of course will cause horrible jumps in the music.

  Is there software available to remove music and leave the voice? I seem to recall this being possible when stripping instrumental backing tracks from vocals. It wasn’t perfect but worked pretty well.

  I have also posted under the audio section, thanks!

  Michael Gissing replied 14 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mark Raudonis

  April 11, 2012 at 5:17 pm

  Short of a NSA level super secret black ops tech device, this is NOT possible. At least not in a way that would make your client happy.

  Sure, you can play with EQ, you can do “reverse noise elimination” for the vocals, but holy cow, this will be a mess.

  Good luck.

  Mark
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  Chip Hess

  April 11, 2012 at 5:28 pm

  Boy, do I know it!
  I am just doing my homework before going back with the ‘bad news’!

  Thx Mark –
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  Chip Hess

  April 11, 2012 at 5:54 pm

  Dave, you got that right!
  We have already put out feelers…

  Mysterious, indeed 😉
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  Michael Gissing

  April 11, 2012 at 9:22 pm

  The trick for vocal removal is phase reverse on one channel of a stereo recording will cancel mono centre panned material like vocals. It is a crap technique barely acceptable for Karaoke.

  Getting rid of the music to leave the vocal is not possible.

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