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Auto Duck is a part of the Effect set in Audacity 2.1.2. Split into two monos. Use it twice. Once right-side up to suppress track 1 and again upside-down to suppress track 2.

Koz

Can we assume the "bad" sound is always lower volume than the prime voice? You may be a candidate for Noise Gate. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Noise_Gate Split the stereo show to two mono tracks with the drop-down on the left. Select one of the two tracks and a...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#skips See if you find anything in there. The Mac can't tell the number if analog microphones plugged in, so that one is a false clue. Do you have a Solid State Drive or spinning metal? Batteries or wall power? Close the network co...

It can seem like other people are just tossing off these restaurant shoots, but when the Big Kids do this, the actual shoot is in a dead quiet restaurant. The actors speaking dialog is the only sound. The people in the background are actors "looking busy—silently." All the surround music, ...

One of the grown-ups I know does it this way. He did a sound shoot on a speeding boat once.



Fair warning, if you get it to work, you'll be the expert...

Koz

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Yes. That helps. Who? Oh, that's only Koz.

Cardioids have a dead zone directly behind the microphone. Hypercardioids are much narrower, but they have a little sensitive point straight back. You should get good at reading those patterns.

More later.

Koz

If you can't understand the speaker, the best we can do is the telephone filter under Effect > Equalization. The other tools such as Noise Reduction need you to know exactly where the words are.

Koz

So since everything on a computer is a folder.......

Koz

Audacity will extract and open the sound portion of a video, but you'll need a real video editor to recombine a patched sound track with the video no matter how you do it.

Koz

An hour mono lecture should come in at about 58MB, not 1GB. So if I had to guess at it, I'd say you'd be getting a lot more than an interesting lecture. But yes, overnight or make good friends with someone with a higher speed connection. Whoever does it, make sure they have good backups and excellen...