Norman Willis
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>>Norman, that makes no sense whatsoever. Have you tried enabling and then disabling both options one or more times?
Mike, I absolutely agree it makes no sense. Yes, I have tried various combinations of enabling and disabling.
The H4N track slides smoothly. No issues at all. However, when I duplicate the audio track for Camera B Take 2, trim a second or so off of the end, and also turn both Snap and Quantas Airlines off, it still wants to jump by whole frames, and also snap the final 3-4 frames.
Should I report this as a bug on my hardware?
Norman Willis
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John, I am sorry if I am slow with this stuff.
One short term goal is to find time to finish the VASST Absolute Training series, and the Now Hear This DVD. There is so much good stuff in there that I have to watch each section 4-5 times just to catch it all. But I believe if I can learn how to use these tools to their fullest extent it will save me a ton of time.
I have to take this as kind of a victory, though, because right now Sony Noise Reduction is applied to all three audio tracks in Vegas x64! I did not think I could do that! 🙂
So thanks again for your help.
Norman Willis
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I called Sony. The tech was surprisingly helpful. He said for the H4N I need to check the settings under which I save the Take 2. That should help to preserve the original size. My original H4N file says 44,100, 16 Bit, Stereo, uncompressed. In Sound Forge I select Microsoft Wave and it says 44,100, 16 bit, stereo, PCM file. Is it normal for that to come out as half the size?
For the camera sound tracks, they said I need to open a copy (key word) in Sound Forge. Then when I save, I need to ‘save as’ (key phrase) rather than just ‘save’. That way it will not re-render the whole .avi file. (I plan to try that next.)
Question: is Sound Forge Pro 10 a necessary upgrade? Or do I have what I need at the moment?
Norman Willis
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OK, I’m lost. I’ve got the cleaned-up half-sized ‘H4N Take 2’ opened up inside of Vegas x64.
Next I opened Camera B audio track in Sound Forge, and applied Noise Reduction 2.0. When I went to save it, it said, “Unable to save all metadata inside of the file. Would you like to save it as an external file?” Under ‘details’ it says, “Unable to save the following metadata types inside of the file: Unknown chunks.” (It gives me an option to apply this as my default preference.)
I clicked ‘yes’ to save as an external file, and twenty minutes later is it still saving, at 0% progress. Is it trying to re-process the whole Cineform .avi? All four cores are at maybe 10%.
What should I do?
Norman Willis
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Yes, but maybe I am doing something wrong (it would not be the first time 🙂
Please let me figure this thing with Noise Reduction in Sound Forge out, and then I will try to re-align the resultant Take 2’s.
Norman Willis
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I’m not sure what I did, but it saved this time.
I think maybe I made the changes to Compression, and then accidentally selected “Do not save changes” when I exited Vegas? (So it rejected those changes.)
Anyhow it is working now. Thanks.
Norman Willis
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>>This is where Sound Forge really comes in handy. What I would do is right-click the event and select “Open a copy in Sound Forge” and Vegas will make a copy of the audio and add it back as a Take. Then you clean it up in Sound Forge and the take stays in sync with the video but uses a wav file. I work this way with iZotope RX sometimes too (although the RX plug-ins are available in Sound Forge as well).
OK, I have Sound Forge 9.0e (long story). Is that going to work? Or do I need Sound Forge 10b to go with x64 Vegas? Also, what is the ideal workflow?
I opened up Vegas x32 and removed the Noise Reduction 2.0 plug-ins from the timeline there. I also set the default audio editor to Sound Forge 9.0e in both x32 and x64 Vegas.
In Vegas 9.0e x64 I right clicked on the Zoom H4N audio track, opened it in Sound Forge, and applied Noise Reduction Mode 2.
Before I opened the sound tracks from the two HF S10 cameras I thought I should close the H4N file. Sound Forge asked me if I wanted to save changes to the H4N file. I selected ‘Yes’ and it closed the file. However, immediately Vegas x64 gave me a warning that it could not find the H4N file. I notice an ‘H4N Take 2’ in the Explorer that approximately half the size of the original H4N file (633 MB for two hours instead of 1.27 GB). It also did not put the sound file back in the same place on the timeline, so I will have to re-align the sound tracks (which is not a big deal).
So I assume I would want to clean up the audio files in Sound Forge first, before I line up the waveforms?
Norman Willis
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I use Sony Noise Reduction 2.0, which is an extra plug-in that Sony sells. I like it a lot, mostly because it seems to do the job, and I know how to use it 🙂 One issue is that it is x32 only right now.
I opened up NewBlue FX Audio Scrubbers, because I have them (long story). There were six tools I did not know how to deploy. I tried a few things, and could not get an effect I liked. I searched for some tutorials on YouTube, but did not find any, so I closed them up (as I am on a deadline right now).
My only observation at this point is that Sony Noise Reduction is a simple, ‘one step’ tool with instructions, with the limitation that it is only x32 at the moment. However, I cannot find any directions for the New Blue Audio Scrubbers at all, and I did not find them as intuitive as NewBlue’s other tools (which are excellent).
Norman Willis
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