Don Bloom
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I’ll assume from your post that you did not have a wireless on the groom.
Since a shotgun is not the idea thing in any situation unless its boomed and within a couple of feet of the subject AND most churchs do have an echo AND you were probably 25 feet or more away from the B&G I can understand the problem you’re going thru right now.
Actually a Noise Reduction program is a great thing to have but I don’t believe this is what you need at this time. First you need to bring up the levels of the B&G. You can split the audio track at the vows and do any number of things to get you started but remember, whatever you do WILL bring up the floor noise of the mic.
Here goes; 1) after splitting the clip open NON REALTIME FX and go to VOLUME-raise it up to about 5. it will become TAKE 2-now drop it on your timeline and put in a volume envelope and raise it to about +3. You will probably now be able to at least hear the vows, along with lots of hiss and noise. Don’t cry yet, open NON-REAL TIME FX again and for that clip apply the TRACK EQ. Use the number 1 circle and pull all the way down and start moving it to the right until the pitch of the voice starts to change then back off a bit. That will at least knock down much of the floor noise and give you something you can work with.
Here’s the real trick though.Don’t try to take it all out in 1 pass. Render the new improved clip and (wav) and go thru the process again. Little bites are better than 1 big giant chomp cause if its not right you still have a close starting point.
I doubt you’ll get it 100% but at you should at least be able to get it close enough that you’ll be able to hear and understand the vows without all the nasty background junk.
Good luck and next time, use a wireless 😉Don
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Click on the FIRST event you want to group-then RIGHT CLICK that event-scroll down to SELECT EVENTS TO END and you’re set to go.
OR you can also pull a REGION across the timeline and GROUP those event to lock them together.
It really is a very easy process that is not time consuming at all.
Don
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https://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-menu.htm
Billy has some great tutorials on color correction on his site.
I agree Excalibur is the way to go for multicam work!
Don
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You might try using a TRACK EQ. First split the track where the vows are (so you’re woeking with a smaller peice, rigth click on that clip and go to non realtime effects. Apply the TRACK EQ to it and when it opens up pull down #1 to the bottom and to the right while playing the audio. Pull to the right until you remove the noise without affecting the sound of the voice.
Wind noise is very difficult to remove in most cases. You might need to use some sort of Noise Reuction program like Sound forge is the Track EQ doesn’t work.
HTHs
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Theres a free little program called VegasQuake that works well but I can’t remember the site I got it at. Perhaps someone else can give you the site but I think it’ll do exactly what you want.
Also in Excalibur there is a utility called Stuttering Video thats works great.Don
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Bring in the single movie and set chapter markers in DVDA. Movie on the timeline, position cursor where you want chapter click chapter marker icon move to the next one.
Don
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Yes it would be and you would not only need lots of time to do it but the patience of a saint because of the amount of keyframing. There is no easy way to remove the background in a video piece.
Wish I could help more.Don
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For what you want to do you are actually performing 2 seperate operations but thankfully with Vegas you’ll only need 1 additionaal piece of software.
To extract the background I think the thing to do is to use a bezier mask in Vegas and mask it out. This can be a very tedious method but depending on the footage might be the only method. As for stabilizing the camera shake, you can either try to use keyframes in pan and crop or use a program like “video Stabilizer” to smooth out the movement. It reads the clip and actually applies cropping to it to minimize the motion. It is not a plugin to Vegas so first you must render the clip as an AVI bring it into the program, let the program work and then it will render the clip out as another AVI. Save with a different name and you’re good to go. Dependong on how bad the original was will of course determine how good the stabilized piece turns out.
I’m sure there are other ways to accomplish want you want but this is the only way I know of. I’m sure others will chime in with their methods.
Don
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Bob
To add the soft edge go into VideoFX tab goto BORDERS and its there for the taking. You can adjust the size and color of the border.
There are a few other border styles there as well. Have fun!Don
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Hmmm, Like I said, I’m no expert so you got me stumped. Sorry.
Did you post this on the PHOTOSHOP forum? I’m sure the folks there could answer you question with the right info.
Don B