Does Movie Studio3 come with a audio editor?

August73 wrote on 12/5/2004, 9:38 AM

I have some audio cassettes that I want to convert to cd. I've been looking in the mannual and it mentions using Screenblast Acid 4.0, but I can't find it in the computer. Is it a seperate program that I'll have to buy?

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gogiants wrote on 12/5/2004, 1:27 PM

Yes, Acid 4 is a separate program.

Movie Studio has some audio editing features built in, so I guess it would be possible to route your cassette audio into your microphone jack and record it on an audio track in Movie Studio. You could then create a .wav file (or other format) using the advanced render options.

But if you're planning on converting a lot of audio cassettes this might not be the best way to go since Movie Studio is not purpose-built to be an audio capture/edit program. You might look into something like Total Recorder, which has a lot of options for doing things like automatically splitting into separate files based on configurable periods of silence, doing batch conversion of file formats, etc.

Also, a free program like Audacity would be a good tool for doing sound corrections on the captured audio. As far as I know, though, Audacity isn't necessarily perfect for capturing the sound files to begin with.

August73 wrote on 12/5/2004, 7:34 PM

That helps. Thanks

ADinelt wrote on 12/6/2004, 4:59 AM

I used a program called RIP Vinyl, which is used for capturing from records or cassettes. It allows you to specify the duration of silence before automatically starting a new song, etc. Worked great for me when I converted some of my mother-in-laws very old polka cassettes into CDs for her. The software only costs $7.00 US to purchase.

You can find it here:
http://www.wieser-software.com/ripvinyl/index.shtml

Al

IanG wrote on 12/6/2004, 5:54 AM

I'll add another vote for RIP Vinyl - it works well for me!

Ian G.

August73 wrote on 12/6/2004, 6:35 AM

Thanks for the recommendation. I will look into that, and hey can't beat the price.

August