John Matheny
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I am running Windows 7 with Internet Explorer (latest version). Appreciate any help you can give me. I think this is a great service from the COW.
John Matheny
John Matheny
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No. It only says “edit in Soundbooth.” It says “edit in Audition” in CS2. I would like to set it up so that I could have a choice–either Soundbooth or Audition.
John Matheny
John Matheny
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Thanks. I didn’t know that it was “well known.” However, Adobe has given me two patches and neither have been successful.
John Matheny
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Thanks
John Matheny
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Steven,
This is not exactly a response to your original post, but I noticed that your hardware is almost the same as mine and I am having a problem which you may have experienced and perhaps solved.
I have an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800 (almost the same as yours) with 2 gig of ram and 2 250 gig drives in a Raid 0 array. I cannot get the Production Suite Activated. It installs OK but then, when I launch PP2 (or any of the other programs for that matter), I get a message indicating my “license has expired.”
I’ve talked with Adobe and they have tried a couple of patches over the phone which have not worked. They have their “accelerated” problem team working on it but it has been 4 days now and I’ve heard nothing.
A phone tech guessed that the Raid 0 might be making the software think that the program has been installed previously on other machines. His initial response was that “this is indicating that you have already installed this program 3 times.
Did you have any problems installing and activating your PP2 and did you have it as a stand-alone or was it part of a package. If you did have activation problems, how did you solve them.
Any help would be appreciated.
maestro
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Thanks Joe. I’ll give it a try.
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Actually, Adobe has already done it with Audition 2 (sort of). I saw a demonstration in Orlando a couple of weeks ago. In the new version when the spectrum analysis is displayed, you can “lasso” a particular frequency, hit a button and it is eliminated. They demonstrated it with a cell phone ringing at a bad time and a squeak of a door that needed to be removed. These two aberations were easy to see in the spectrum analysis view. Voices would not be as clear but they might stand out. Sooner or later I’ll try it. Again. Good luck.
Now if someone will just help me with my 16:9 aspect problems when burning DVD’s in Encore I would be a happy camper.
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You probably can’t “remove” the voices from your audio tracks from your other two cameras. However, you might be able to improve the overall sound. I come at this from the background of an orchestra conductor and voice teacher who is now into video production.
The predominant frequency range of the male voice is from about 200 to 3500 hz. Female is 400 to 3500 or so. These numbers are close. I’d have to look them up to be exact.
The interesting thing is that you don’t have to remove all of it. There are 4 predominant fequencies when a person sings (and talks) 1-the fundamental (the speed the vocal chords are vibrating); 2 and 3-vowel formants (two separate frequencies or overtones which determine the particular “vowel” sound the listener will perceive) and 4-the “ring” overtone which gives the mature voice a “ringing” quality as compared to the rather dead sound of the youthful singer or an untrained adult singer.
The trick I have used is to filter out just the lower two frequencies with one of the equalizers and frequency filters (the notch filter is good) in Audition. Don’t worry if you hear just a little (high pitched, tinny sound). If your cameras were positioned left and right, you probably have a little bit of difference between the strength of the voices depending on which actor was closer to that camera (unless both cameras were close to a speaker pumping out the sound guy’s audio mix in which all bets are off).
Even so this still might help. The little bit of high frequency sound you have left is going to be covered up by the “master” mix on your main track. Put all three tracks on your timeline an mix them together. Hopefully, the orchestra stuff you eliminated from your left camera track will still be a little stronger in the right track and vice versa. Remember that the frequencies from the voices on your master track should somewhat “cover up” those orchestra frequencies anyhow to “protect the dialogue at any cost.”
You might try “adding” some reverb to that orchestra track an make the viewer think that the inadvertent reverb was intended. Push up the volumn on the master track to balance with the orchestra and then adjust everything on your master fader.
What I am suggesting is hours of “tweaking.” I’ve “fixed” some pretty bad stuff this way. Good luck.