Meeting ACX Requirements w/ Audacity

[kozikowski]

Yes, don't post anything to them until we settle on a protocol and effects values. Raw clips will never pass popping and noise. You'll have to be able to process work by yourself once we get one through the system. As above, some of the tools I used are brute force that happened to work in your particular instance, but may not be generally applicable.

Analyze > Audiobook Noise Floor and Effect > Equalization > LF Rolloff for Speech are custom designed tools and have to be hand-installed in Audacity.

I will post the recipe shortly.

Koz

[The_zatanna]

Haha, my apologies! Although one day I can hope to narrate a comic (maybe?) this is a novel with graphic content

Homemade recipes are my favorite!

[kozikowski]

The rule is five to one. So 15 minutes of finished, delivered show is good for an hour and a quarter to an hour and a half of work. You're not accustomed to the tools and shortcuts yet, so it's a bit longer. Also, we haven't applied the ACX Conformance tools yet.

"Alice slowly lay back in the warm, sweet-smelling hay, her heaving...."

I know it's common to think you can record a show, slap it on the fanny and go. I don't know that production has ever worked like that. You always want to correct your mistakes and polish the work.

Oh, wait. I can think of one violation of the 5:1 rule. I used to do this.

"We are live from the fourteenth street bridge where the Air Florida flight Palm 90 has plunged into the Potomac River. Rescue divers and emergency lighting....."

Koz

[The_zatanna]

I had just deleted it once I realized that I hadn't connected a good 3-5 seconds of clips. UGHHHH, I'll post the new one here, that doesn't have that blank space I forgot to connect haha

I'm uploading it as an mp3 because apparently that's ACX standards?

I remember reading somewhere, maybe in this forum http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... ng#p243573
that ACX requirements are a ball park and their really just looking for it to sound consistent, and not garbled. I'm not sure if that was ever confirmed, but nonetheless

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOU HELP!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HW7y ... sp=sharing

There's the file, with no weird gap, raw stuff, no recipes!

[kozikowski]

I'm uploading it as an mp3 because apparently that's ACX standards?

True. That's ACX Final Deliverable Standards. However you can't Edit, Filter and Effect in MP3. That has to be done on the WAV or Project. You did keep a WAV or Project of the final before you made the MP3 right? ...... Right?

MP3 is a dead-end road. It's what you make when you're sure you will never have to do anything to the file ever again — except listen to it.

We have a number of things we need to do to it.

People who make podcasts from downloaded MP3s always complain that the Podcast MP3 is ratty and doesn't sound very good. That's correct. They have two MP3's worth of compression sound damage in the show and it's permanent.

Koz

[kozikowski]

So we need a WAV or Project posted if I never got around to saying that.
Koz

[kozikowski]

Where is "LF rolloff for speech?" Assume I want to hand someone a thumb drive with the filter on it.

Koz

[steve]

Where is "LF rolloff for speech?" Assume I want to hand someone a thumb drive with the filter on it.

Koz

Here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 81#p244881

[kozikowski]

Thank you.
I'm using your "filter list" for Ian as a base for corrections in this case, and maybe many other cases as well.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 20#p244941

The first mod is in step 2, Normalize to 0 and remove DC thereby solving a possible popping problem in step 3, LF rolloff.

An additional task is building tests into the list. Audiobook Noise Test, Analyze > Compare, etc. Finding and collecting all the bits and pieces has been quite a chore.

Koz

[The_zatanna]

Sorry I'm late,

I did save a WAV just in case! Hope you still need it!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HW7y ... sp=sharing