Peyton Todd
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Reporting back finally, the techniques for pixelating a small section of the screen work perfectly. What I’m still having trouble with is tweaking the EQ tool in such a way as to get only his intonation pattern – in other words, the same ‘tune’ as the original word or phrase, but just hummed. I just happened upon a sound file showing that I was somehow able to accomplish this back in 2005 (this is a very long term project!). I was going to attach the result to this note to show you what I mean, but I see no way to do that. So I put it on Dropbox at this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ycvk1vzcs8zoiv0/pitchonly.wav?dl=0
It might more or less serve the purpose just to stuff that sound file in at the appropriate place in each example, but the result will never match the target exactly. So if anyone has any good idea of how to get just the ‘hum’ in a sound file a spoken sentence I’d like to know how to do it. I have no memory of how I did it back in 2005.
Thanks for all your help.
Peyton
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Double oops! I also didn’t notice the videos in the reply by Bruce Brent. (My excuse is: I’m so accustomed to the advertisement videos sprinkled through things I read that I’ve developed the habit of ignoring them!)
Anyway, they’re quite impressive, and I can see I have a lot of studying ahead of me – a daunting task as my age of 75. My own videos are all black and white, shot in the early 1970s with a portable reel-to-reel Sony video camera, at least 100 times the size of the hand-held ones we have now. I also won’t need tracking of movements since I only need to mask out a single word in each short video clip.
It’ll probably be a while before I can report back!
Cheers,
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Oops, I only just noticed the reply from Francois Penzes. So I’m reading that…
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Thanks, guys, but I don’t think any of those solutions will meet my needs. These videos will belong to a research project about a hearing child of deaf parents learning to talk. I want consumers of my ‘product’ to be able to hear the intonation pattern of the spoken sentences (the rises and falls in the pitch of his voice), so when I distort his pronunciation of his own name, it won’t work to substitute silence or reversals, etc. That’s why I think a low pass filter will work once I figure out how to use it . So far I’ve learned that it seems to involve setting parameters of the EQ FX plug-in. (I expect a low-pass filter to work since intonation is carried by the fundamental frequency of our voice; the information as to which word is being uttered is carried by higher frequencies.)
The other part of my question involved hiding his mouth movements so people can’t read his lips as he says his name (and in other sentences, his brother’s name). As far as I can see so far, this might be done with a mask, assuming I can reverse the transparency values assumed in the manual. (I should mention that, although I’m working in Vegas Pro 11.0, the only manual I have dates from when I bought the product long ago: Vegas 3.0).
But this may be tricky since the little ‘blob’ covering his mouth will have to be in different screen locations depending on where his mouth is in each sentence. If only there were a way to simply specify the screen position of the blob for each sentence as easily as one can do with text media! (These videos will usually be only one sentence in length.)
Peyton
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Yes, Mike, that was exactly my problem. All I had to do was drag out the left hand edge.
Now I’m going to add this to my ‘How To Do It’ list.
Many thanks!
Peyton
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Yes, but how do you turn on the labels that usually (in my case) appear to the left of each track – the ones where you can mute a give track, for example? I never want these to go away, but sometimes they do… I suppose I must have inadvertently pressed some keystroke combination.
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I just realized that one fairly simple way would be to copy the list of marker names to memory, paste them into Notepad, and print them from there. But if there’s a simple keystroke combination for this I’d still like to know what it is.
Thanks!
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To Graham Bernard (or anyone else who would like to respond):
Knowing how to view Edit Details will be very useful to me, so thanks for that. Perhaps you can go from there to helping me with a related question?
What I want to do is print out the names of each region. Someone answered this question before on one of the Vegas forums (or was it Creative Cow?) but I have unfortunately forgotten their answer, and cannot find it again although I do remember it’s quite simple, and ‘built-in’ as you say.
As it happens, though, in this project I don’t have regions, but only markers. And I have named each of them at the top so when I go to Edit Details, they’re all there. So if I could just print out the Edit Details to a file the problem would be solved.
I notice there’s a script to batch render regions. But again, unfortunately, what I have are Markers, not Regions. If there’s a quick (batch) way to turn all the segments between successive markers into regions, then I could render the regions and just to a listing of their file names…
Or is there a simple way just to print the marker names?
Thanks for your help,
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>> Which MOV file are your loading into Vegas?
I’m loading the MOV files built by Vegas a few years ago from the original AVI files. They include the subtitles through the last sign, then an extra frame right after that, which has no sub-titles. So if I could duplicate that last frame and tack it onto the end, then later, when Acrobat deletes it, my original last frame (with no subtitle) will remain.
>> I don’t have a copy of V11 on my machine, but in V12, I cannot reproduce the cutting off of the last frame.
I’m attaching one of the MOV files, or trying to. Even though you have a later version of Vegas, it might tell us something if you can load it and I cannot. (I tried – I can’t tell if it worked.)
>>Which render template are you using?
I have generally used Quicktime 7 > 3Mbps, which is 655 x 480 Sorenson, 15 fps. There could be a clue here since 15 is not exactly half of 29.97.
>> Do you have the original .veg files and AVI files? Why not use them again?
Yes, I have them. I’m reluctant to use them again unless I have to. The reason is I have a great many video clips, and the original AVI tape is long – an hour although all my clips are from the first 10 minutes. They nevertheless have to be looked up. Also, since this is a tape of a conversation, fairly often the scene switched right away to another signer right at the end of what the signer I’m focused on says, so the extra frame isn’t there. Another option would be to shorten the sub-title of the last sign (i.e. let it last one frame fewer than at present), but that’s a bit more work. Since I have to many of these to do, I was hoping to work directly from the MOV files that already isolate the examples I’m interested in.
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I converted the AVI to MPEG4 using Handbrake but got the same ghost-filled result. But still there must be SOME solution since viewing in inside of Vegas makes the ghosts disappear!
Anyway, if it helps, I have placed the AVI file and the Vegas edits of it at this link on Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7zq4lg3dmpadlv7/AABfjDFlrL_xhCE4GjWdYKKMa?dl=0