Source vs. imported audio

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mattiedread

I just downloaded MM2 and have not yet installed it. The
issue I would like to overcome is this (and, I'll buy
software if MM2 doesn't).

I would like the following audio types in a single movie:
1. The original sound recorded on my tape.
2. Naration I add.
3. Music I import (.wav)
4. A combination of 1 and 3.

I know MM2 can do any one of these things (or2 and 3)
but, can I do all four in a single movie? I'd like to
know before I install.
Thanks,
Matt
 
You can but it is a little long winded. You can add a track, but to add a
furterh track you will have to be fully satisfied that the first track is
correct. When you are sure save the movie as a dv-avi file, then make a new
project and import in the dv-avi file and then you can add another music
track etc.
If you are going to do a lot of this you may find purchasing software that
has multiple audio layers a lot quicker to work with.

Graham
 
Thank you. I was afraid of that. Any suggestions for 3rd party software? I'm
reading Amazon reviews for a few (cheap ones, I'm not Speilberg).

Appreciate your reply. I was hoping there was an easier solution... why
don't they make the audio from source/music a frame by frame things where you
can set a default the option to set a default, and overide in any frame????
seems simple enough (they will, the day after I spend $100 on software and
then another $200 on rdram so I can run the software:).
 
I use premiere, but it's on the expensive side, so have a look at
www.pinnaclesys.com for studio 9 or www.ulead.com for videostudio, which I
think is on V8. Both good apps and I "think" will do what you want, but you
can download free trial versions of them to test.
graham
 
Actually, by playing the clip in MM2 and using XP's 'sound capture' you can
make a .wav file of the ambient audio (originally recorded on the DV device,
in my case sony camcorder). So, what I did was:
Set the audio levels to 100% Audio/Music. Then, I played the portions of the
video that I wanted 100% audio from source (video) while holding my
microphone up to the speaker, created a .wav and inserted it into the video.
Crude, but, it worked well enough for my home movie. Synchronizing (sp?)
could be a bit of a problem.

But, in theory by using sound capture and its tools, you could do all of
what I am looking for. The manual synch probably has a good solution which
I'll figure out when the time comes (for now, my ambient ocean waves crashing
on the rocks was in perfect synch the first time).

It seems to me that MS should be able to integrate this tool into MM2...
What do you expect from a company started by a college dropout.
 
Thanks, I'm just taking a look at those, and Roxio (which has a ton of
reviews on AMZN, too stellar to be true...).
 
Hell there,

You might also want to take a look at MovieDV version 6 from www.aist.de It
gives by default 11 audio tracks and the same number of video tracks. At US $69
its rather good. Its method of operation is the complete opposite to Movie
Maker. Nothing is set in stone. Its not that easy to learn if your only
previous experience is Movie Maker. If you can get a copy of MovieXone (the
little brother of MovieDV) you will be able to have a play around with it.
MovieXone is often given away on magazine disks like PC Utilities. I am using
MovieDV 6 at this moment making some start and end clips for download from my
site.
 
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