Major sound problem with video project

johnr2 wrote on 7/12/2003, 9:04 PM
I'm a newbie and I desperately need direction as to how to resolve this sound problem I'm having. Maybe someone can direct me to a good tutorial, book, etc on how to come up to speed real quickly on fixing sound problems.

I offered to take a video tape and put it onto DVD. Simple enough until I read in the tape. I found the camcorder must have a tracking problem because the bottom edge of the screen has a small ribbon of "static" waving in and not completely out of the picture. The picture can be easily edited, but the sound track must also be at the "bottom" because it also waves in and out with static. I assume from reading this and other Vegas info that there must be some method or technique to fix this.

I also have another sound problem where we recording a grad and tied into their sound system. Unfortunately, they had some problems with their new mic....so another issue to deal with. First I need to deal with the "static" video issue. Help!

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snicholshms wrote on 7/15/2003, 2:09 PM
I've had to deal with the tracking sound problem before. It's a bear. Try Sound Forge, get a noise print for just a second of the static. Then run Noise Reduction @ -6 db once. Listen and you might run it through again.
After you've removed as much of the static as you can, then you can compress what's left to bring up the volume/presence.
You usually can't get rid of all the static because the cam's recording heads were probably mis-aligned.