mass-replacing a 5-frame waveform

mgordo wrote on 6/10/2013, 3:12 PM
Hi All -

This is a how-to question, and it must come up a lot when editing formal event shoots like weddings. It's about doing a "replace all", like word processing does, but using a specific waveform across a Vegas Pro 11 audio track.

A wedding video contains a lengthy toast by the Best Man. He likes to take long, dramatic pauses between sentences. During the pauses, someone in the audience is (constantly) using a camera with a loud shutter = "click-da-da-clunk". Each resulting waveform is 5 frames in length and can be clearly identified during the quiet pauses. I've easily isolated it using Sound Forge Studio 9.

My question is whether a script could perform a mass-replace of this 5 frame waveform with another of equal length and reasonable ambience, which I would provide from the quiet pauses in the speech. I understand that this would only work where the particular waveform is isolated from any other sound on the audio track. I have plenty of these to pick off.

If someone could either describe how this would be done, or point me in the direction of useful tutorials, I would be very grateful.

Thanks for your time.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 6/10/2013, 6:19 PM
A script would be difficult to implement IMO.
Rather than replace, I would suppress the clicks using conventional noise reduction and gain techniques. Izotope, for instance, could make the shutter noise go away, leaving the ambience as-is.