Transferring ambient sounds to a CD

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paul85
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Transferring ambient sounds to a CD

Post by paul85 »

I'm using VideoStudio 9, and I would like to transfer sound from my latest project onto a CD. I have already transferred the sound from the various clips to the Music bar and saved them in a Library Manager file. I would now like to have them appear as WAV files in "My Music" so I can move them to a CD. How do I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance. Paul 85
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Post by sjj1805 »

If you are doing what I think you are, I did a similar task last year.
That is - building my own library of sound effects taken from my own camcorder recordings.

What I did is this.
Firstly export the soundtrack as a sound file - this produces a WAV file the length of the recording.
Now open the WAV file with audacity. Clear your mind of what the original clip contained and play the sound (headphones are useful here) and extract clips of various sounds saving them as suitably named WAV files.

Create a catalogue of these sound effects such as
City sounds
Seaside
General traffic
Waterfalls
and so on.

They can be preserved on a CD/DVD like any other DATA file.
Last year I converted a batch of super 8 films for a friend. It gets a bit monotonous if all the converted super 8 films simply had music (Rather than the original sound of the projector 'projecting') Using this library of sounds I was able to manufacture some pretty convincing soundtracks of natural sounds.
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Post by BrianCee »

If you have already saved the clips to your library file then the music clip must be on your computer somewhere - possibly as a .wav file.

all you need to do is right click over the thumbnail and choose 'properties' - that will tell you the full path to the actual file - note that the thumbnails in the library are NOT your music files - they are just a short cut to the file.

Once you know the location of the files you can use 'My Computor' to move them any where you want - although remember that you will then have to relink to the thumbnails.
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