stonefry
27th August 2008, 20:44
My sources are a live cam video of a musical (with live band) and a studio recording of the music. I am attempting to mix the music from the studio recording and leave the live sound for the speaking parts. I am about halfway through the video now and am please with the results, but I don't know if I am using the best method.
I ripped the audio out of the cam into a .wav and loaded it in to Audacity. Then I load the songs, one at a time. This is where it gets tricky because none of the songs have the exact same tempo and some of the tempos actually fluctuate throughout. I get the song sounding the way I want it to then move on to the next. Audacity gets bogged down pretty quickly because each song need at least one track. There is no way to combine the tracks except to export the song to a stereo wav file. Not really a problem, but because it's 2 hours long, this takes a while.
When I am done getting the audio track ready I test it by using vdubmod to mux the new audio to the original video file and bada-bing, it looks the same and the songs sound really nice.
My question is, is there a more efficient way to do this? Should I be using something besides Audacity? I don't mind learning new software if it will make things easier.
I ripped the audio out of the cam into a .wav and loaded it in to Audacity. Then I load the songs, one at a time. This is where it gets tricky because none of the songs have the exact same tempo and some of the tempos actually fluctuate throughout. I get the song sounding the way I want it to then move on to the next. Audacity gets bogged down pretty quickly because each song need at least one track. There is no way to combine the tracks except to export the song to a stereo wav file. Not really a problem, but because it's 2 hours long, this takes a while.
When I am done getting the audio track ready I test it by using vdubmod to mux the new audio to the original video file and bada-bing, it looks the same and the songs sound really nice.
My question is, is there a more efficient way to do this? Should I be using something besides Audacity? I don't mind learning new software if it will make things easier.