Recommendation Please - AVI Editor

[Tecknomage]

Looking for an AVI video editor that *includes* editing the sound.

Recommendations please.


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[Paul]

Looking for an AVI video editor that *includes* editing the sound.

Recommendations please.

There are free ones, but I doubt you'd be very happy with them.
In that, it may take a while to figure out how to get any
results at all from them.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-wmv-avi

You'd probably want the video editor section. Since some
of them are trialware, you can try them out.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-advanced

Paul

 

[Tecknomage]

There are free ones, but I doubt you'd be very happy with them.
In that, it may take a while to figure out how to get any
results at all from them.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-wmv-avi

You'd probably want the video editor section. Since some
of them are trialware, you can try them out.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-advanced

Paul

Thanks, but none of them specify sound editing. I need to modify the
sound on an AVI file.



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[Tecknomage]

From what I've seen, video editors that also include any sound editing are
(almost by necessity) going to be more limited than having separate apps.

But I think this really depends on what you mean by being able to "edit the
sound". I'd guess Sony Vegas might do it, but I tried it once, and it was
a bit overkill for me - and not so intuitive - for me, unlike using a
separate sound editor, like Sound Forge.

Need to adjust the volume in a AVI file. Whomever recorded it has it
way too loud compared to anything else on my system.



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[Char Jackson]

Need to adjust the volume in a AVI file. Whomever recorded it has it
way too loud compared to anything else on my system.

I've used this program to do exactly that. It worked well.
<http://www.avs4you.com/guides/How-to-edit-audio-of-a-video-file.aspx>

Not freeware, so just treat it as an example of what's out there. It
wouldn't surprise me if it had a freeware equivalent.

For example, there's a short discussion on using VirtualDub (free) to
lower the audio on an avi file here:
<http://club.myce.com/f32/freeware-reduce-volume-avi-file-206260/#.T_2EdvXp_ZA>

I Googled 'avi volume too loud' and got a bunch of hits, so I'm sure
there are multiple solutions out there.

 

[Industrial One]

Looking for an AVI video editor that *includes* editing the sound.

Recommendations please.


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VirtualDub is a good free editor that can do simple operations on the sound like resample, interleave, change volume etc. It's portable and doesn't require install.

 

[Paul]

Thanks, but none of them specify sound editing. I need to modify the
sound on an AVI file.

OK, I managed to edit an AVI here, with VirtualDub and Audacity.

For source material, I recorded an AVI with my WinTV card. Then used
that for a quick test.

VirtualDub allows the sound to be separated from the video.

Then, you take the sound into Audacity. You can use "amplify" in there,
then select "Normalize" and set it to -10dB. The program finds the loudest
section of the audio, sets that to -10dB, and everything else is scaled
down in proportion.

Once the audio is processed, you select "Export" from the Audacity file
menu, and export as an audio file.

Then, back in VirtualDub, you ask VirtualDub to "Audio : Audio From Other File"
and point VirtualDub at the new sound track. When VirtualDub is used to
save the new video ("Save as AVI"), now you have a processed audio track.

This is not a NLE as such, as you're processing a whole clip in one
shot, extracting audio and adding it back in, in a couple runs.

A weakness with AVI, is the file format itself. There is a standard for
AVI files larger than 2GB, but I've had a few problems with it. As long
as your clips are short ones, then you might not run into any of those
problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDub

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)

Have fun,
Paul

 

[Tecknomage]

I've used this program to do exactly that. It worked well.
<http://www.avs4you.com/guides/How-to-edit-audio-of-a-video-file.aspx>

Not freeware, so just treat it as an example of what's out there. It
wouldn't surprise me if it had a freeware equivalent.

THANKS!

Exactly what I'm looking for.


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