I am an audiobook narrator. I am using version 3.5 because the 3.6 version was too much change for me to try to learn. I am trying to master a file and in the middle of mastering, as you’re waiting for the “de-clicker” it all of a sudden just stops mastering. I have tried it 3 times, including closing out of everything and restarting my computer. This is a larger file than I have done in the past, it’s about a 45 minute book chapter. The larger chapters take longer to master usually, but it just keeps going and eventually it just finishes but I haven’t had it just stop like this. Help!
The Audacity de-clicker plugin can only process a limited amount in one go.
10 - 15 minutes ? … Applying De-Clicker crashes or takes a very long time, any feedback?
You could have more than one problem.
Are you doing all your work on the internal C:\ drive as is recommended? Every time you create an edit or start a correction, Audacity saves an uncorrected copy of the performance. When you Edit > UNDO, Audacity doesn’t try to unscramble your edit, it just opens up the last show.
What that means is the system is storing a 45 minute show at each edit. How many edits have you performed? That’s 45 plus 45 plus 45…etc.
If Audacity crashes in the middle of an operation, it means you could have bits and pieces and digital trash lying around. You just had an explosion, right?
Have you been saving Audacity Backup Projects as you go? That’s important because some of the other Projects could be damaged if Audacity Crashes.
Close Audacity and do a Clean Windows Shutdown. Ctl-Alt-Del and then Hold Shift while you do a Shutdown from the system screen.
Do you have a lot of room on C:\, your System Drive? Keeping in mind that multiple chapter saving thing when you answer.
Have you ever done a drive defragmentation?
Windows doesn’t save files. It saves pieces of files wherever they will fit. The pieces will get smaller and smaller as you go. My stupid joke is the neighborhood library that gets a new large book. They don’t have room to store it on a shelf, so they rip it up and put the pages where there’s room (I know they don’t actually do that). When you ask for the book, they don’t hand you the book. They hand you a list of where they put the pages. Have a good time! This could be why your productions have taken longer and longer.
That will take a while. Go make coffee. Under some conditions, Windows may need to do it more than once. If you don’t have a lot of room on your drive, it could take a really long time.
You are inviting all these problems with your extensive chapter sizes. Are they really that long? I know ACX allows chapters up to two hours, but really? Can you read 45 minutes without stopping? I know there is provision for reading “Chapter Four, Part Two” as a stand-alone file. That may be good for you.
A word about Mastering. That process produces a finished chapter that you then convert to MP3 and submit. It’s not an editing step in the middle.
Are you using 36Audiobook-Mastering-Macro?
Koz