audio overdub on Movie Studio 2023 video

VFedo wrote on 6/30/2023, 2:43 AM

I have a movie studio project with an MP4 file imported; a video camera file with a video track and stereo audio track. I need to add another audio track on top of the MP4 tracks, which will be a vocal singing track recorded live with a microphone, connected to the PC with a USB audio interface. I want to record the vocal live while the MP4 file is being played in Movie Studio. The USB interface is an M-Audio 192/8 24-bit 2 IN 4 OUT device. The microphone is connected to that and is heard well with monitor. The PC is Win10 64bit. The software is Movie Studio 2023 Suite. The PC recognizes the USB audio interface as an Input and Output device in the Sound system settings, all drivers are installed properly. The Movie Studio software does not recognize the audio interface as a recording source or anything. With Movie Studio 16, it recognized the device but the audio track was corrupted and out of time sync. Then after a few more attempts, the software just crashes. I thought that upgrading to Movie Studio 2023 would help, but it is even worse. Any help would be appreciated, this is what I need the software for, to edit camera files and overdub vocals live. I must emphasize that I do not want to record a separate audio file alone, and then add it later to the video. I want to do it live in sync with the MP4. Thank you.

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emmrecs wrote on 6/30/2023, 3:42 AM

@VFedo

Welcome to the Magix user to user forums.

First, are you aware that Move Studio 2023, indeed all versions since 18, are actually completely different programs to your older MS 16? Versions of Movie Studio from 18 onwards are essentially "rebadged" builds of what was formerly called Magix Movie Edit Pro.

I am running MS 2023 Suite and when I click the red Record button below the Program screen and then select Audio I see the following:

Clearly, I am using a different interface (mine is from MOTU) but it is clearly shown in the top Audio Driver box. Can you take a screenshot of the same screen on your computer and post it here, please?

Jeff
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VFedo wrote on 6/30/2023, 4:56 AM

Thank you Jeff. When I go to File > Record Audio > select Audio, I get the Audio Recording box which shows my device in the audio driver box 1 correctly. When I click the red button to record, the error message comes.

VFedo wrote on 6/30/2023, 5:03 AM

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browj2 wrote on 6/30/2023, 7:48 AM

@VFedo

Hi,

There may be a couple of problems.

I have an M-Audio M-Track connected to my computer by USB. I also have the corresponding M-Audio ASIO driver loaded in the computer and the M-Audio Device Settings are loaded at computer startup. Did you download and install the ASIO driver for the M-Track from M-Audio?

You should have the same setup.

In your audio recording settings, you have selected Line 1/2. This looks like you have connected the M-Track to the line in of your computer. It should not be; it should be connected to a USB port. So, the audio driver that you select should be as shown below:

Also, under Recording Quality, you have selected CD audio - 44 kHz. You should select DAT which gives 48 kHz - the format for video.

Under Save in Folder, you may want to create a subfolder for the recordings just for your project. You can see in the image above that I have a subfolder called tests. I also have subfolders per project, otherwise all recordings are put under ...My Record. Not necessary, just a house-keeping thing.

You also have it set for Stereo recording but you only have 1 mic. Under Advanced, switch to Mono recording.

This will put your recording on both left and right channels. Stereo will only put the 1 mic on the left or right, depending on which one you have it plugged in to. If you do that, then you'll have to follow my instructions in a recent thread on how to get the audio onto both L & R channels.

You have Play while recording checked. Make sure that you do not have a range set in the timeline unless that is what you want. The recording will last for the duration of the range and then stop. If you don't know what caused this, you'll be pulling out your hair - it's the range that's causing the problem. This happens to me quite often.

Lastly, under Program Settings, Playback tab, what is your output device? If it's to your speakers, you should change this to Output (M-Audio M-Track) and monitor using headphones connected to the M-Track or you will get feedback and your mic will be picking up the audio that is playing back.

Make a couple of test recordings to make sure that your recording level, distance from the mic, etc. are set properly. If the recording level is set too low or too high, click on record level, open the selected Input and adjust the level.

Does any of this help?

John CB