Deleting extra background sound from video

[Ken Berry]

Just to add an important rider to Calver's useful explanation.... Adjusting the rubber band can be a bit fiddly. The problem is that the cursor changes shape depending on what you are doing. As Calver says, wait till you get a small hand icon, which appears when you are near one of the blocky nodes on the rubber band, and then pull the node up or down with the hand to adjust the volume in that area up or down. However, as the cursor moves away from the node but along the line, it will change to an upward-pointing white arrow. You use this to insert a new node. But if you have two nodes close together, the cursor can sometimes move too quickly between its modes to be able to control easily, and you can inadvertently insert more nodes when you really want to be pulling the existing ones up or down! But persevere as it becomes easier with practice!

[harperv]

i think i am going to need Video studio anomynous.
i have been thinking about just this. i have the roaring sound of the wind on some tasmanian footage and thought that i will try to redo the audio (delete the original)but as i have audacity and have used it for putting tunes together i may go and have a look at it and see if i can work it.
Like Antz i think i need to work out how to double the hours in a day so i have more time to play.

[Eileanbeag]

Many thanks for your detailed information; I will now spend a few hours trying to put it into practice - hopefully I will master it some day

[antzpompeii]

I am very new to video and just wondered what you were talking about when you said to use the rubber band to delete sound

hehe i was wondering this too! but too scared to ask

[antzpompeii]

Ooops i forgot to change the settings when capturing with WinDV and have captured everything in AVI/DV Type 2!!!! >>> does this matter? or do i recapture all again?

Hello Antz,

I capture Type 2 all the time and haven't had any problems with it yet.

Regards,
John

Yes but do you have a Dell 1.8GHz with 40GB HDD & basic VIDEO Card and only 512mb ram?..... i think i should be using AVI/DV Type 1..... but anyways,,,spent hours doing the tape so i will leave it like this and see what the outcome will be.

[lancecarr]

Antzpompeii
Although your computer is hovering at the back of the field as far as resources go there are a few things you can do to keep things on the straight and narrow.
Of course the DV type 1 /type 2 thing has been covered so in the future type 1 would be the way to go.
In the meantime, when you are working on vids, make sure you have shut down as many unnecessary processes that you can to free up resources.
Disconnect from the internet, shut down any anti-virus, anti-spyware programs and close just about anything you can lay your hands on. Disable screen savers and anything that could suddenly spring to life while you are halfway through something. This is especially helpful when you are rendering files and burning discs as that is when the traffic gets heaviest.
After you shut down those programs it is also helpful to hit crtl/alt/delete to see what processes are still running.

DO NOT shut down anything there you don't recognise!

For example I run AVG Anti-virus. I shut it down from the system tray but even then three AVG processes continue to run in the background taking up RAM so I manually shut them down in the Task Manager.
Have fun!

[Ken Berry]

Even though I have a relatively well endowed computer, I also disconnect my phone from the computer when doing some important video work. In the past, when doing a fairly intensive piece of video work, a phone call has introduced an unwanted blip in the video and I have had to start all over again! Ah the joys of video editing!