Time compress - pitch shift.

farss wrote on 6/26/2004, 7:54 AM
Is SF7 likely to do a better job than Vegas at this. Seems my client didn't realise when totaling up the tracks to go on a CD that 9:43 is not the same as 9.43 etc, so now I'm at 75:51 which I guess will not fit on a standard pressed audio CD.
So as this is spoken word a little speedup to 102.8% seems to fix it nicely, now using Voice1 Classic pitch shift in Vegas sounds OK to me, but seeing as how many of these CDs are going to get pressed and the voice belongs to a weel know actress I figure I should give it the best that I can, anyone can advise if SF7 is likely to do a better job?
Normally I believe I'd be better off not pitch shifting for such a small speedup however there's 3 other CDs in the set which will not need any pitch shift so it maybe more noticeable than normal. The other possibility would be to just reduce the pauses between the words but I cannot see anyway to automate that.

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SeanC wrote on 7/10/2004, 4:36 AM
have you tried the different presets? If it's defaulting to a music preset, you might get much better results selecting one of the speech presets in Vegas. I've been pretty pleased with the results, and a 2.5 % change should not sound bad. for me, it's 6 and 8%+ that bring the artifacts on.
farss wrote on 7/13/2004, 3:55 PM
Thanks,
yes I worked out the different presets, I think the documentation could give a bit more info. Job has gone to client and they're more than happy.

Bob.