How to generate a waveform for music

Killjoy wrote on 5/5/2003, 5:41 AM

Hi all....

Be Gentle <grin> my first post

I need to obtain software that will generate a waveform similar to the waveform display in Windows media player and many other packages and allow me to save it to a video file so that I can use it in Vegas in a music video I am working on....

I have tried a simple screen capture of various audio players but find the resolution is simply not good enough for real use

I would prefer something where I can vary the colour of the waveform and the density and velocity of the wave

Can anyone advise?

Regards

Tom Keatley

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/5/2003, 6:42 AM

I've never done this, but if you have winamp and have a tv output on your video card (or can output it via firewire) you can record that to video tape (VHS, DVC, MiniDV, etc.). Then you can play it back and capture it. That would do what you want.

TorS wrote on 5/5/2003, 7:12 AM

Do it in Vegas. Or Sound Forge, if you want even better control. Yesterday someone mentioned in another thread an app that would let you convert your screen activities to video. But for a music vid, I suppose it might work to just point you camera to the screen - adjust for flicker - and shoot.
Tor

FuTz wrote on 5/5/2003, 12:30 PM

I'd go with these free apps:

CamStudio (www.rendersoft.com) to record what's on the screen.
QCD player (www.quinnware.com) to generate a waveform (there's a few skins available that will generate slightly different waveforms and right at that point, you can already shift colors, adjust intensity, etc...).

I then would use Vegas to do more: stretch, compress, cut, shift colors a little more or less, desaturate, mask, chroma key it, etc...

steinar2 wrote on 5/5/2003, 3:34 PM

If you have got Adobe (yakh!) After Effects you can easily create a graphical print of your audio.