[Ryan Moyer]

I am a pretty novice user of Audition (I’m actually a video guy and just use Audition for some of the audio stuff when I don’t have someone else to do it for me), however from my experience the route you’re looking to go (remove vocals, keep background music) is much easier than the route I was looking to go (remove background music, keep vocals).

Audition has several presets for removing vocals from a track that work fairly well. It does not have any presets to remove everything EXCEPT vocals (which is what I was trying to do).

I don’t have the program with me right now so I don’t recall exactly where they are, but a quick google for adobe audition remove vocals should turn up lots of results.

As with everything though, your actual results are going to be very hit or miss dependent on the track you’re using. Some tracks it can pull out the vocals without you even being able to tell they were ever there in the first place (rare), and some tracks it makes the thing sound worse than it did when the vocals were in there. Usually, it falls somewhere in between. If you’ve had trouble removing the vocals with other programs, I’m not sure that Audition is going to be able to do much better than them, though like I said, the presets do exist in the program.

[Ryan Moyer]

Also @Jon, I think I understand what you were saying better now as well. If I’m reading it correctly you weren’t saying necessarily go back and forth with it, but rather just render it once and then DL that new render, which would make the changes still happen in realtime.

So now I’ve got two workable solutions. Thanks guys.

[Ryan Moyer]

Aha, I’ve got it working now. It appears the problem before was that I was opening the new comp and editing that one, not just continuing to edit on the same one.

Thanks.

[Ryan Moyer]

Yeah, that’s the workflow I’ve used with my old NLE and AE together. I’m on the PP CS5 trial right now and the whole reason I was considering the switch was due to the integration of PP and AE, being able to make changes in AE and have it instantly updated in PP without any rendering. If I’m still going to be rendering and copying back and forth then I can’t really justify the cost and time of switching to PP.

[Ryan Moyer]

@Jon Barrie

Everything was going good with your method until I got to the step where I had to enter the source frame of the start of the clip I wanted. The source frame of the part I want to edit is 17824, however it looks like it won’t accept a value larger than 5000 for source frame. Anything I put in higher than that just defaults back to 5000. I even tried making the comp length 20,000 frames but it still won’t let me put anything higher than 5000 in there.

@Alex Udell

I tried precomping and it did not change the behavior at all. It still applied the effect to the entire clip, not just the part I had brought over from Premiere.

As far as Premiere’s slow-mo goes, I’m using CS5, so are you saying that its slow motion frame interpolation is as good as After Effect’s? That would be helpful, however I would still like to get this sorted out as I’m sure I will often have a need to apply effects to just a part of a clip without affecting the whole thing in PP.

[Ryan Moyer]

Yep, those are the exact settings I’m using, and I get the results I described up above. I made sure to pick MJPEG, and not MPEG by mistake.

[Ryan Moyer]

I gave that a shot and got some interesting results. They appear in windows explorer as just being file type “file”, won’t play in any of my media players and in Vegas they don’t even show up in the explorer.

[Ryan Moyer]

The motherboard has the following specs with regards to PCIe and SATA ports:

Expansion Slots
1 x PCI-E X16, 1 x PCI-E X16 (x4 bandwidth), 1 x PCI-E X1, 3 x PCI

Serial ATA
6 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by Intel® ICH9R support Intel® Matrix Storage Tech(AHCI & RAID0/1/5/10)
2 x eSATA 3Gb/s through JMicron® JMB363 support 0,1JBOD RAID function

I’ve heard that hardware raid’s big advantages (in Windows) come in raid5 and up, and that it doesn’t offer much of an advantage for Raid-0. So if I was willing to settle on Raid-0 would popping in two 7200rpm 2tb hard drives configured for software raid (just hooked up using the standard SATA ports) using ICH9R be a good option?

That would give me 4tb of working space which would be a good start, and I would use a networked server or NAS to do nightly backups onto.

[Ryan Moyer]

I understand. On that front, I was looking at the g-technology 4tb raid-0 setup (https://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid.cfm).

That is reasonably priced at $550, however they have some optional eSata PCIe connectors. The PCIe x1 adapter claims up to 100mb/s read/write, and the PCIe x4 adapter claims up to 200mb/s. That adds another $320 to the price though, which is pushing it.

My motherboard (A-bit IP35-pro) already has an eSata port, so do I even need those cards or will using the onboard eSata port do fine for video editing?

[Ryan Moyer]

Hmmm, I suppose I should have been more clear.

Video editing is not my primary source of income. It’s something I did as a hobby for a while and have recently started doing some individual project work on the side for some small-time clients that saw my work.

As such, I don’t have a particularly large budget for it, nor a “tech” guy to refer to.

I already have three (maybe looking to add a fourth) 2tb drives that I’d like to configure in raid-5, so I’m just looking for the enclosure/card. I feel like I should be able to get this for under $800 or so off a site like newegg, but am not sure what I should be looking for there. Will any old cheap $100-$200 enclosure work fine if I spend the money to get a good Areca raid controller card?