Removing Gaps in Audio

kirkdickinson wrote on 4/7/2008, 9:13 AM
I have a sermon that I am trying to fit on a CD. It is 90 minutes long.

The speaker has a habit of leaving a second or two dead air all over the place. If I had the time to go through this manually and remove all the dead air, I could fit this on a cd easily.

I tried compressing it, but when I compress it enough to fit the cd, the speaker sounds rushed and unnatural.

I was wondering if there was a plug-in or some other program that could go through and remove all the dead space.

That is probably asking too much, but I figured it is worth a shot to post here.

Thanks,

Kirk

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Kennymusicman wrote on 4/7/2008, 11:13 AM
SF.

use auto-regions, then select regions in region list. delete. save. enjoy
kirkdickinson wrote on 4/7/2008, 12:48 PM
Can you elaborate? I searched the help file and it wasn't much help for "Auto regions".

I see in the help file that under Options/Preferences there is:

Automatically name regions and markers if not playing
When this check box is selected, an edit box is displayed so you can name markers and regions as you place them.

It is selected and didn't seem to do anything.

Thanks,

Kirk
Kennymusicman wrote on 4/7/2008, 1:44 PM
[this is in soundforge don't forget!]

Bring in audio file.
Tools | Auto-region..
This will allow you to tweak settings, to ultimately detect regions based on silence vs audio content. So you will have regions around your audio, and regions around your silence.
Then view | regions list..
Select all the regions that have silence, and delete them. This will leave you with just your audio content.

THere is a slightly different method for working, that will allow you to extract all teh regions (audio, silent), delete the silent files, and then you can simply drag them back into SF / Vegas / CDA / tool of your choice.
Look here : http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=576089&Replies=8 for more info.

One of those two, will sort you out.

Ken
kirkdickinson wrote on 4/7/2008, 2:05 PM
OK, that is the problem. I don't have sound Forge, I have Vegas. I thought this was the forum for Vegas. I kept looking in vain for the Auto-region setting in the tools menu.

Kirk
rraud wrote on 4/8/2008, 9:32 AM
In Vegas you could easily edit-out the dead-air space manually by "splitting" the clip on or near the end of the dead air space and drag the remaining file toward the head (beginning), or, split the file at either end of the pauses, delete whilst having the "Auto Ripple" function engaged to close the gap.. or drag the remaining part of the file to close up the deleted gap space.
Split = Edit> Split (or "S") Auto Ripple= Options> Auto Ripple (or "Ctrl+L")

While SF may be better tool for this, the automated method may or may not work satisfactorily, depending on background noise, ie: HVAC, coughing, sneezing, farting, outside vehicular & aircraft, ect.
Kennymusicman wrote on 4/8/2008, 2:06 PM
[This is the forum for Vegas, but you did state
"was wondering if there was a plug-in or some other program" - and since SF was 'some other program'....]

Hope you succeed anyhow..