Editing or Seperating Multiple Audio Tracks in a Video

[SpyderPB6]

Hello,

I just downloaded the trial version of this software (Video Studio X5 Pro) to try it before I buy it. I am importing RAW and AVI footage capture from a program called DXtory. I am recording those videos with three audio tracks, one track covers the sound of the video game being played, one track covers my microphone input, and the last track covers the sound that comes through my teamspeak server.

When I import a video into Corel am I able to separately edit each audio track? IE change the volume of one input but not the other?

Thanks,
Mike.

[BrianCee]

Only if the 3 audio tracks are imported as separate audio tracks and each audio stream put in individual sound tracks - if the 3 tracks have been combined and imported as one file into VS they cannot be separated again.

[SpyderPB6]

Thank you, that is what I was looking for.

Can you recommend a product that is capable of what I seek?

[DVDDoug]

Thank you, that is what I was looking for.

Can you recommend a product that is capable of what I seek?

As Brian said, if you truly have 3 separate tracks, Video Studio can do it. Otherwise, You can't un-bake a cake or un-fry and egg, and you cannot un-mix sound.

Pro recording studios use multi-track recording, because if they were to use a single mic or a pair of stereo mics, they would only have one or two tracks and they could not edit and adjust the various voices and instruments separately. Once it's mixed-down to stereo, that cannot be done.

An analog mixer works the same way. If there are 10 performers on a stage and they each have a microphone going into a mixer, the sound engineer uses the mixer to adjust the individual levels. The mixed-sound comes out of the mixer (stereo or mono) to the P.A. system.

I assume DXtory gives you stereo? If you have 2-channel stereo, you can edit the left & right channels separately. If you have 5.1 channel surround sound, you can edit the 6-channels separately.

And, there are some "tricks" you can do with stereo. Most audio editors have a "vocal removal" tool that subtracts left from right to remove "phantom center" vocals (and everything else that's in the "center"). And, there are a few more advanced tools that can remove the "sides" and keep the "center". These things can be fun to play with, but they rarely give "production quality" results.