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sporadic
03-08-2006, 12:07 AM
I know this group mostly talks about the video side of things, but I'm hoping someone here can help me anyway. I'm having to do sound work on my short film, and I'm looking for something to do it in. Preferably something free. ;) I've tried working in after effects, but that's been rather difficult, so I've decided I need something else.

Are there any open source/shareware programs that do combined sound/video NLE out there? If not, does anyone know of anything that's at least decent that doesn't cost huge amounts of money?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Tagger
03-08-2006, 06:49 PM
do you want to edit sound or sync it ? cause your title says something else then what i make up out of your message
scrimski
03-08-2006, 07:34 PM
You could use Jashake , it's freeware or get a copy of Avid FreeDV which is a limited version(only 2 vidoe/audio tracks) of Avids Xpress editing software

http://www.jahshaka.org/
http://www.avid.com/freedv/index.asp
sporadic
03-08-2006, 08:50 PM
Tagger: I've got a bunch of sound effects and the like that I need to get set at the right places in the video. I'm not doing a lot of modifications to these effects, so I think of it as more of a synchronization issue, but I am pretty clueless when it comes to sound, so maybe that's considered editting? I don't have a finished soundtrack, so I guess it is.

scrimski: Thanks, I'll look into that.
dbates
03-14-2006, 03:01 PM
Sound synch is more, say, lining up a dialogue track with the video. I usually just use AE for my effects tracks, because I don't have a proper editing package (FCP, Premiere, Avid, etc) and AE can do basic edits just fine. . .

As far as how to place them, I just do trial and error. . . if it's an explosion, say, I'll try to find where I think the loudest part of the explosion will be--visually--and line up the audio track to match. Then I RAM preview it and find out how it sounds. It takes a while, and there's probably a more elegant way to do it, but it seems to work.
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