What fomatt is the Audio recorded in from DV?......

Finatic13 wrote on 11/27/2001, 8:23 AM

Hi all
Recently got Video factory 2, very very pleased with it, just a quick question though.

When i capture DV from my camcorder, i try to open the Audio track in cool edit pro, but this just results in a file of loud noise. Im guessing im doing something wrong, all i want to do bascally is capture the video and audio, be able to "tweek" and mess about with the audio, then add it to the project, then convert to whatever format i want.
Anyeone help me out?
Kind regards
Simon

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Former user wrote on 11/27/2001, 9:35 AM

The audio is part of the AVI file, which contains audio interleaved with video. You need to use software like VirtualDub which will seperate the audio and make a WAV file, and then will either marry it back to the Video or you can marry it through VF.

Dave T2

SonyEPM wrote on 11/27/2001, 9:39 AM

you could also render out the DV audio as a separate .wav file-

Finatic13 wrote on 11/27/2001, 10:29 AM

Thanks for the help guys, so am i right in saying that if i captre the file, then just put the audio on the timeline, encode it to AVi, i can then work on the audio with cool edit, and inport it back to the timeline and then add the video file, or have i got things mixed up:>)
regards
simon

yirm wrote on 11/27/2001, 10:33 AM

I don't know. But what SonicEPM suggested is that instead of rendering as an .AVI, you should render as a .WAV. It will then export just the audio stream to a standard .WAV file.

As far as the format, I think that depends on the recording device. My Digital 8 camera records at 48K/16-bit. But I think it has a 12-bit option as well. This leads me to believe that the audio portion of the file can vary. Unlike the video portion, it is not compressed.

-Jeremy

SonyEPM wrote on 11/27/2001, 10:37 AM

render the audio portion you wish to export as .wav, 16bit/48k, pcm. Just about anything will open that-

Former user wrote on 11/27/2001, 10:42 AM

After you make your WAV adjust it in your audio program, you then will have to reimport it back to VF as a WAV file and sync it. If you do the whole edited program, this is easy, but if you do a segment, it gets a little trickier syncing it.

If you want to just alter audio on a scene, then I would advise you enter the whole scene, export the audio as a WAV file. Open it and alter in your external software, and then reimport back into VF and it will sync up easily. Then creat a new AVI file with your altered audio. Use this AVI in your future edit.

Dave T2

Finatic13 wrote on 11/27/2001, 12:19 PM

WOW, this is only the second time ive used this group, im impressed, thanks for al the help, il sticka round:>0
anyone into pink Floyd?
Ive just created a DVD of Gilmours from the June gig in England, you know that feeling you get when you burn your first CD? well i just got it again with my first DVD:>)
regards
Simon