Audio editing question...

gogiants wrote on 8/27/2003, 4:47 PM
I often find myself grabbing a song off of a CD, wanting to edit out the segments that include the lyrics, and somehow merge together the different segments of the same song.

Doing this is laborious and tends to sound bad, namely in the "merged" parts where I've put two segments side by side or overlapped them.

I tried ACID, but it seemed that its reliance on the loop model made it difficult to do what I wanted to do with full songs. Maybe I didn't try hard enough?

I know that audio editing is a whole other topic. But, has someone tackled this particular problem either within VideoFactory/Movie Studio, or with some particular audio editor?

Thanks.

Comments

Former user wrote on 8/27/2003, 6:00 PM
All of the time. The trick is to match the beats and volume. Drag two instances of a song to the timeline. Trim the end of the first one to where you want out of that part. Trim the beginning of the second one until you are where you want to pick it up. Then slide the two together and expand your timeline. Then trim frame by frame on each one until the beat matches. If this is done right, it is transparent except to those who know the song.

It takes practice but, after a while it gets easier.

If you use some of the new electronic music, it is easier because those are locked to BPM's and are generally pretty repetitive.

Dave T2
JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/27/2003, 6:57 PM
I do this all the time but I’m a musician so its easy for me to hear not only the beats, but determine the areas of a song that can be safely spliced. You not only have to splice on the beat but you also have to understand the time signature and splice to that. If there are four beats to a measure you can’t splice from the second beat of one measure to the first beat of another. It just won’t sound right. Also, not all parts of a song sound good when spliced together. (i.e., splicing the middle of a chorus with a verse). You need to understand a little bit about music to be able to rearrange it properly. VideoFactory has the tools... you just need to train your ear.

~jr