Why do you mainly use an audio editor? Is it to restore old LPs and vinyls? Is it to record and create your podcasts? Or is there other reasons? I would love to have your feedback.
Thanks,
Jon
Hi Jon,
I use Audio & Music Lab 2014 Premium now, but used ACL is the past. I use it for transferring audio from LP's and cassettes, restoring the sound, and exporting to a useable format. I have many old cassettes are voice recordings of family that I want to preserve and use in family videos/slideshows and often there is a fair amount of cleaning required, including spectral cleaning to remove sudden noises.
I also use it to improve the sound of my videos. I prefer AML to the Music Editor or built-in tools that come with Movie Edit Pro as they are limited, whereas AML has some very good tools to fix and adjust sound. It's a combination of mixing in Movie Edit Pro and completion in AML then back to Movie Edit Pro. I sometimes have to clean up speech from a video using AML before mixing in Movie Edit Pro.
I also do voice-overs for my tutorials and videos and I send the track to AML for adjusting the volume, normalization, compression, pitch, deEssing, reverb, and gate, etc., to get a consistent sound. Sometimes I do it well, other times not so well, but I do get an improvement. I may also redo some of the dialogue in AML where the original was messed up, so there is recording and editing involved. Then the cleaned track goes back to Movie Edit Pro.
Note that in AML, I can also bring in the video part and make timing adjustments and other fixes to the audio to match the video. Again, for me, it's a blend of using Movie Edit Pro to lay down all sounds, including sound effects, mixing and fixing in AML if necessary.
Audio improvement and use of audio is quite important in slideshows and videos, and I like to get the best that I can.
A last thought, when I add in music to a video, I don't send the mixed audio, that is, original sound plus music, out to AML. The music is usually fine. Once the other audio is cleaned and brought back into Movie Edit Pro, I mute the original material, use the cleaned material, and mix and master cleaned material with music.
I also use Music Maker to add in music and sound effects. See my tutorial on using Music Maker with Movie Edit Pro under the tutorials tab. I still use AML to clean up original sound from the video, so I may have a mix of the three products.
Do you use an audio editor yourself, and for what?
Regards,
John
Although not involved with the original question, tonight just flicking through Forum postings I came across this Q&A which I found really interesting. So thankyou for the reply.
However I did not stop there as I then also searched out the Tutorial you mention on using Music Maker. Wow! Then I realised that I also have Music Maker so could use that with MEP and so another learning curve opens. Thankyou John.
George
Hi George,
Sometimes we don't know what we've got. Doing full computer searches for things like jpg, png, wav, mp3, mp4 etc., can reveal some useful material that can be used in MEP and MMM. I found many masks in other programs that I copied over to a folder for using in MEP. Same with songs and snippets of songs.
Magix has just put out a new range of Audio Cleaning tools, the best of which by far, and the only one that I would and did buy, is Audio & Music Lab Premium. Note that Magix has stopped appending the year/version and is moving to a new model.
Have fun with Music Maker!
John
Certainly going to have fun and whilst I realise that one's original video clip is not used in MEP, I think I will have a test, re-watching your tutorial, with some of my video clips that need something done with the audio. Fun times ahead methinks!
Not used as much now as all my music cassettes have been converted, although must admit I have not even thought about converting vinyl, seems also with your additional comment that as I still have ACL16 De Luxe I should now seriously checkout Audio & Music Lab Premium.
George