[Norman Willis]

Hi John.

>>The general rule of thumb is so always use the audio on the motherboard (with a $5 pair of speakers) for all of your Windows sounds. Only use your audio interface for audio and video applications (like Camtasia, Vegas. Sound Forge, etc.). This should make things work much smoother. It’s how I run my M-Audio Firewire 410 with Camtasia without problems.

OK, I got some Logitech speakers. How do I configure this?

I turned the integrated audio back on in the BIOS. I right clicked on the speaker icon in the task tray. I selected the ‘Playback’ tab, and then selected the SoundMAX (Logitech) speakers. (yYecch!) It sounds awful, compared to the studio monitors, but it plays.

Then for the Recording, I leave that on the PreSonus FirePod?

OK, so I don’t get it. What happens when I want to play back on my studio monitors? Do I turn the integrated audio off in the BIOS again? But then I will be right back in the same boat, with Windows shutting off sound to the FirePod, like before?

And why would this have shut off the recording, in the first place? I had recording defaulted to the FirePod, just like now.

What am I not getting? Thanks.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Hi Eric.

Thank you for your help with this earlier. It is time for my next Camtasia project.

>>If it’s all screen grabs, you might as well go HD. 720p@24 (1280×720 at 24fps) will yield outstanding quality.

I cannot find a setting for the PAR in Camtasia, so I assume it is preset at 1.0, because the pixels on computer monitors are all PAR 1.0?

Would I then just type in 1280 x 720, and record?

Thanks.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

>>FWIW, avi is NOT a lossless format unless you use an uncompressed codec. Even this isn’t necessarily lossless as some chroma subsampling does occur.
avi is merely a container, like a brown paper bag. you can put a lot of various groceries (aka “codecs”) in that paper bag.

Good to know.

Thanks.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

There is probably a better way, but if you have them exactly how you want them, can you mute out all but the tracks you want, set markers, and then render that particular section out as something lossless, like .avi, and then import the .avi into your new project?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Hi Scott.

https://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/

Does this help?

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Third.

And thanks also to the other guys, who are also seem to take joy in helping others. I would have been way lost without everyone here.

Creative Cow is a blessing and a praise.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Yeah, lots of em. Just Google it.

I don’t know which one is best.

What is your source? Blu-Ray? Or AVCHD?

If it is AVCHD, try Cineform NeoScene, $99.00 at Videoguys.com

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Hi guys. Thank you for all the excellent suggestions. I’m kind of slow, and I am still getting comfortable with Vegas, and I while I have Sound Forge, I have never really used it, so is it possible to do this whole thing inside Vegas?

Before I start editing, I normally use Sony Noise Reduction 2.0, dropping about 12db (“Default for fast computers”) out of the whole track. Then I bump the noise gate up until the static drops out. I apply that to the whole timeline before I do any cutting at all.

If I have the right replacement word already spoken in the sound track, then how would it be if I duplicate the sound track, find the right replacement word on the upper track, and cut away everything but the good word and the background sound on either side of it?

Then I could match the good word up to the lower track, and then zoom way in, insert a volume envelope on each track, and create kind of a ‘cross-fade’ in the space both before and after the words in question, so that the good word gets dubbed in, and the bad word gets muted out?

Would that work? Or would the Sound Forge thing be way better?

Thanks.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org

[Norman Willis]

Hi Mike.

>>Ungroup the audio from the video on the desired clip (the “elsewhere” part).

Would I make a duplicate of the audio track, and then delete all but the word I need?

And then how do I ‘paste’ it over the top of the offending word?

[Norman Willis]

>>I actually use Cakewalk Sonar for additional audio but plan to get the Zoom H4 as a more portable recording medium. Though I do use Cakewalk for studio recording music etc.

You are right audio sucks from most cams especially in wind.

My Zoom H4 conked out after less than 30 hours of use, and Zoom refuses to repair it (because it went outside the 30 days, or something).

I do not recommend the Zoom H4. It is very confusing, and difficult to navigate. If you don’t want to go for the Edirol, then at least get the Zoom H4N (but I would stay away from Zoom, unless you purchase an outside warranty, like a SquareTrade warranty).

However, your audio on the camcorder is competent. You just need an XLR adapter, such as a BeachTek, or (better yet), a JuicedLink.

I purchased the JuicedLink CX431, and now use the camcorder for all of my audio recording as well. Just throw away the video stream.

It’s a thought.

Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org