audio in slow motion...

meguyonbike wrote on 12/6/2006, 2:50 PM

So I am putting some footage in slow motion but the audio sounds wierd. Somebody told me that there is a setting that i need to change, but I don't know what I need to change. Any suggestions?

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mtnorwood wrote on 12/6/2006, 4:15 PM

You can mute or delete the audio. What are you expecting it to sound like at a reduced speed?

Tim L wrote on 12/6/2006, 5:57 PM

Right-click on the audio track and select Properties.

Near the middle of the Audio Event window is a setting called "Time stretch / pitch shift". For Method, you can select "Classic", then you have several parameters you can play with. (I'm trying this on VMS 6.)

By default, I think VMS tries to preserve the original pitch of the audio. If you want the audio to sound like "slow motion" audio (slowed way down), tick the "Pitch Change: [ x ] Lock to stretch" box.

If you want the audio to stay at the original pitch, get rid of "Lock to stretch", and try different Stretch Attributes.

I haven't done much with these kinds of things, and some that I've tried just weren't very successful. It seems to be hard to get ambient noises, action, normal camcorder audio, etc., to stretch without sounding weird. But I think I have stretched music a little longer or shorter to match some video, and was very pleased with how well it worked.

Tim L

meguyonbike wrote on 12/6/2006, 8:12 PM

thanks so much! that fixed it! I just had to right click on the audio for the one clip I wanted and then checked "lock to strech".