Problem Removing Spoken Words From Video Clip

[joe ciaravino]

I have a flv file of automobile engine sound with annoying spoken words which I'd like to edit out. The clip was recorded in mono. I split off the audio into a wav file. When I try "effect" "vocal remover" on the monaural, single track "flv" file, I get an error message saying that "program needs an unsplit stereo track"



Thank you.
Joe

[kozikowski]

Probably not. Vocal Remover and most of the other fancy-pants tools only work on a stereo sound file or show. They use left and right direction to tell which is voice and which is everything else. Mono has no left and right, so no tools.

From what you have, anything likely to remove the voice is going to damage the rest of the show.

The voice is now a permanent performer in the show. I see it overloads here and there as well. That's particularly bad news.

You might be able to edit around the voice. Open the show and Duplicate The Track so there are two copies. Then suppress the voice out of track one with Control-L and shift track two around so the engine noise covers up the hole. Use the Time Shift Tool -- two sideways arrows.

Keep doing that and see how close you can get. It's basically your only hope other than a reshoot.

Koz

[joe ciaravino]

Koz,

I have edited the clip and removed the annoying sections of voice. I used Virtual Dub and Audacity, created a wav file with V Dub, edited it with Audacity, then rejoined it to the original flv with Audacity.

It is not perfect, but immensely better than before.

Thanks.