another audio query

billcoffin wrote on 5/27/2004, 1:58 PM

I have a capture that has stereo, sort of. But one track is good, the other has very little content and lots of noise. (I did the capture from an old VHS cassette made from an even older analog camcorder.)

I'd like to remove the noise track (It's the lower squiggly line on the soundtrack) and then duplicate the other track to create pseudo-stereo. I've tried the pan controls but it seems that it just controls the output, not the "input".

Also, the help facility says that I can click on the volume slider label to control panning rather than volume, and shows a nice picture of this, but my ScreenBlast doesn't have such a label, so the only apparent way to control panning is via the envelope tool.

Thanks!

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IanG wrote on 5/27/2004, 3:11 PM

There may be other ways of doing this, but I'd get a copy of Audacity, a freeware audio editor, and define it as the "Preferred audio editor" - Options / Preferences / Audio. If you right click the audio track you can send a copy to Audacity. There you can split the stereo, delete the track you don't want, copy the good track, define it as the missing one (left or right) and bring the modified audio back into MS.

Ian G.

jimmyz wrote on 5/27/2004, 10:08 PM

Does Audacity change the audio in ms or do you need to bring the altered audio back into ms through explorer?
Thanks

IanG wrote on 5/28/2004, 12:28 AM

When you exit Audacity the original audio is replaced with the modified version, so you don't have to do any extra work. Audacity isn't the only tool that will do this, btw, but it's free!

Ian G.