I have about an hour of video that has background music and a lots of speech and the speech volume is not as loud as I would like.
Is there a method of either increasing the volume of the speech or reducing the volume of the background music with Ulead audio software? I have not had any experience with this software before. I also have Goldwave which seems to have more features, most of which I haven't used either.
Thanks!
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Very difficult to increase the contrast of sound. I would not advise the use of Audio Editor for this. I don't know Goldwave but use Audacity (free, open source) for tricky editing. It has an excellent noise reducer. If the speech is, say, 10 dB higher in level than the music, clipping a few dB from the centre of the waveform and then re-levelling to peak -3 dB might increase the contrast slightly, at the cost of a little distortion. If the speech and music are of equal levels, then I don't hold much hope without an extremely sophisticated (and costly) waveform editor.
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Need a bit more info, but I think you're out of luck. You can do it with lyrics sung on a CD but it's almost impossible if the music and speech was recorded by the camera.
About the only thing you can do is ditch the left and right channels in turn, using the PAN audio filter, and see which one has the best speech to music levels. Then, turn the result back into a stereo soundtrack (it'll be mono, but out of two speakers).
As Devil says, you might also have success by selectively filtering out certain frequencies. For example, if the background music is coming from another room, you might be able to get rid of a lot below 400Hz and above 3KHz (I think).
About the only thing you can do is ditch the left and right channels in turn, using the PAN audio filter, and see which one has the best speech to music levels. Then, turn the result back into a stereo soundtrack (it'll be mono, but out of two speakers).
As Devil says, you might also have success by selectively filtering out certain frequencies. For example, if the background music is coming from another room, you might be able to get rid of a lot below 400Hz and above 3KHz (I think).