Software is a computer program that exists separate from the computer itself. It can be installed or uninstalled. In the context of this site, it is a tool for the manipulation of audio or video data.
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How can i download poor quality audio from youtube videos? [closed]
I stay in a underdeveloped area of India where only one telecom operator is available.
The highest internet speed that I have seen in my computer is 11 KBps (as this operator supports only 2G).
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How would you go about restoring old voice recordings?
I have some old voice recordings I would like to restore and I'm not sure what software I should use and in what order I should apply the different transformations.
They were digitized a while back ...
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Is there any Windows, Mac, or Unix software similar to LSDJ for writing “chiptunes”?
I am aware of LSDJ and have tried to use it via various GameBoy emulators, but I find the interface to be incredibly clunky and am wondering if anyone has seen a suite of software that takes better ...
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Free batch conversion from FLAC to Apple Lossless (ALAC)?
I am looking for a free tool that would allow me to convert large amounts of FLAC files to ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) while preserving the meta information and optionally adding new information ...
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Easiest way to stitch GoPro videos that have been split due to length?
I am recording 15-minutes videos with my GoPro Hero 3 Black edition. The camera starts a new file every 10 minutes of recording by default. I do not think I can change this in a setting.
When I do ...
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An open source sound editor, but not Audacity?
I am looking for open source/free software for casual sound editing.
I've tried audacity, I know it's capable tool but really I dont like the interface.
Tried snd, can't get it to work.
I am looking ...
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What Do I Need to Compose/Create/Mix Music Fully Digitally?
I want to write some music, maybe mix other songs as well. I want to be able to write up some melodies/harmonies, or lay down some beats and mix them to my heart's content, with different instruments ...
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How do I audio record a meeting with 10 people in a room 10ftx10ft
I have to do audio recordings for a college thesis. The recordings are of meetings in a room about 10 ft square. There will be between 7-10 people participating. I have permission to do the recording. ...
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Unwanted letterboxing using Wirecast
When I create a 1280 x 720 pixel image in Photoshop CS5.1 for use as a title slide in Wirecast, the resulting image is letterboxed. I have a similar problem with 720p video feeds from a Black Magic ...
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Favoriting/Subclipping with Long Clips in Timeline in FCPX
I'm editing a project where I have 5 very long clips. I'm going through, favorite-ing the good portions ("subclipping" per se) and then organizing my clips from those subclips.
A problem I'm running ...
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Software for organising and naming an archive of sounds
I travelled by bike through India, and made audio recording. They range hugely in quality of content and sound. Unfortunately they were only recorded on an olympus digital voice recorder. However, ...
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Audacity: Exporting time track to csv
I'm looking for a program that can export a time track to a csv file, preferably in Windows. Do you know one?
I've already tried a bunch of free software, without success.
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Software like LiVES Video Editing for Windows 7
Newbie here. I am wondering if there is any alternative for the open source LiVES Video Editing software (http://lives.sourceforge.net/) on Windows 7?
Or, can the lives source be compiled on Windows ...
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Marvel-like Image Flipping Technique
What software can I use to create the "Marvel" movie like flipping effect that accompanies pretty much every Marvel movie? I am looking to create a home movie on my PC that flips through a bunch of ...
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Which software for adding triggers to an acoustic drum kit to make it into a USB drum kit?
I would like to turn an acoustic drum kit into a digital one, played through a PC. While the drum kit is being played on it would be good, to hear the drum kit act as a sequencer and here the samples ...
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Which DAW is this?
I saw this from a screenshot on a youtube video. Please help me find out which DAW this is.
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Save existing project to an external drive Final Cut Pro X 10
I have a project with events saved on my Mac drive. I want to save this project on my external HD drive to clean space and work on this project later.
I copy pasted Final Cut Events and Final Cut ...
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Audio effect: loop on a keyboard key
Using Mac/Linux/Windows SOFTWARE with an attached MIDI keyboard:
What's the simplest way to, on-demand in live performance, capture a 1-second recording from a microphone and then play it on a loop ...
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Playing a channel whilst recording another in Sound Forge
Basically, I'm doing some recording in sound forge pro 10. I have 4 channels, 2 of which have the backing track on and the other 2 are to be recorded on. Is there any way that I can play the backing ...
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Batch resize videos with “pan and scan” cropping
I am trying to prepare a collection of ~120 video clips to be played in VLC Player and projected on a low-res (1024x768) projector during a DIY electronic music event. The source clips are all super ...
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Lossless extracting of JPEGs from an MJPEG video
Using the Timelapse app on my Sony NEX-6 camera, I get an AVI which contains an MJPEG stream.
However, I'd like to take all the individual frames into Lightroom as normal photos, to do my ...
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Adobe Premiere Elements 11 Crash Issues (Adobe Premiere Elements has stopped working)
After installing Adobe Premiere Elements 11 Trial I opened the Editor and pressed New Project. Than our beloved Windows error: Adobe Premiere Elements has stopped working contact there, do this, do ...
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Split audio into many files
I have an mp3 recording that spans many hours. It is just one big file. I would love to split it into dozens or hundreds of individual snippets.
I actually already some most of the time-stamps where ...
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Looking for a free dvd burning program which has basic video editing to make a menu?
I just shot some video in 720 using my kodak playsport zx5. I know HD videos don't fit on DVD and i'll have to compress / edit them. I don't want to buy any advanced programs right now since i'm just ...
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Why is 2.0 louder than 5.1? [closed]
I have a 2.1 setup: two front speakers and a sub, fed by a Yamaha receiver (RX-v667), which is fed by my Win7 x64 computer over HDMI (AMD 6950), with MPC-HD as the source player. My receiver's current ...
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Software to combine two videos of the same scene?
I think this software idea seems simple enough to have been created, but it might be so specific that no one has done it. I'm just wondering if it already exists.
I'm looking for some program which ...
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What software can I use to make “stop motion” video from existing video material
I want to make video like this:
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Free automatic composer, for commercial use
Is there free software that automatically composes music and does not place restrictions on the generated output? I need to be able to use the generated music commercially.
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Vestax SPIN & Algoriddim Djay - Streaming online
I am using Algoriddim djay with a midi controller (Vestax spin). When I am mixing I can route the output audio and the monitoring (pre-cueing) output on my controller, it works fine.
However, when I ...
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Audiotrack (for video) - workflow from Ableton Live to Adobe Premiere
I'm creating audio in Ableton Live that will be muxed with edited video footage in Adobe Premiere. The audio is everything from (Foley) effects to background music, and it must be in sync with events ...
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Video tutorials: how to add labels, comments, arrows etc
I'm planning to make a video tutorial about one application. I would like to make it without speaking, but I would like to add comments to video.
Is there a video software that allows you to add ...
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Calculate projected area in Cinema 4D
I would like to calculate the projected area of an object in Cinema 4D R12 on the Mac. Initially I am fine with calculating the projected area on one of the principal planes, but if a method exists ...
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Kontakt 7 Player slow/bad sound quality
I downloaded Native Instruments Kontakt 7 Player, and despite the fact that I'm on an AMD Athlon 65 3500+ 2.19 GHz with 2.5 GB of RAM, the sound quality is unacceptable; there are drags and buzzes and ...
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Software for Live Multi-Tracking Recording & Mixing
So I'm looking for a piece of software for recording multi-track live audio (PC or Mac is fine, I have system for both). That meets several key requirements:
Can record at least 4 tracks
Works with ...
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Tool to clip segments of a video
newbie here,
I want to remove some segments of an MP4 video I have. Which easy to use tool would you recommend. Preferably free.
I'm using Windows.
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Is it possible to customize keyboard shortcuts in Sound Forge Pro Mac?
The Windows version of Sound Forge Pro allow customization of the keyboard shortcuts (see the 'Customizing keyboard shortcuts' section of the current manual).
The manual for the Mac version (Sound ...
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Is there software to capture and view raw MIDI data coming from a controller?
This is partially out of curiosity, and partly, potentially, useful.
The gist of what I'm looking for is an application (preferably OSX, though it wouldn't be a deal breaker to be Windows or *nix, ...
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Software for editing audio for video [closed]
Which software is best for editing the audio of a video?
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Is there a way to play an DVD movie and hear two audio languages? [closed]
I am a brazilian and I speak/listen to English, but my wife doesn't. So, I would like to watch DVD movies in English language in my bluetooth earphone while my wife would watch (listen) in dubbed ...
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Multiple loop phrases in Ableton looper?
Using my floorboard controller and vanilla Ableton MIDI mappings, I've managed to figure out a way to juggle two phrases with loopers. However, the MIDI assignments are a pretty clunky. The basic idea ...
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Best general-purpose AV editing app with ATI acceleration support
I'm looking for a good video editing app (general-purpose) that supports acceleration on ATI devices. I know that many apps (e.g., Premiere) support CUDA, but what about ATI?
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Remote Interview Recording Software
I have a user who would like to record interviews done remotely, e.g. via Skype, and we need a decent set of recording software to make this happen. I've done research, but the restrictions we have ...
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Options to speed up Hobbyist Rendering?
How can I speed up hobbyist animation-rendering project? It would be cool to see things faster, I use tools such as Blender.
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After effects rendering
I have a small problem with rendering.When i render with default setting my video size is more than 1 GB and i was using only 10 pics, some solids and 1 null object.Can you please tell me what setting ...
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Voiceover drowns in music. How do I make it more dominant?
Total newbie here, not sure if this is the right place to post this. I'm trying to record some station IDs for an online radio station thingamajig I'm doing. I'm using a Samson C03U. My voiceovers ...
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How does Salman Khan make his screencasts?
Just wondering what software he uses. I see his videos regularly and I'm somewhat impressed by the video and audio quality of his screen-casts.
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Does correcting the speed of audio captured from vinyl at the wrong RPM degrade its quality?
I sent a record of mine to an analog -> digital conversion service, and the CD that came back sounded like chipmunks. They had played the record at 45 RPM on their capturing equipment instead of the ...
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Difference Matte Keying software
This is my first post on this site.
I would like to know if anyone out there knows of any free software, or software not as expensive as Adobe After Effects, that can do Difference Matte Keying? I ...
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How do I 'drag' waves in Sound Forge?
I've been playing around with Sound Forge Pro 10 for a few days. Basically, I've recorded my girlfriend's vocals (she was listening to the music via headphones from a laptop), and I'm trying to line ...
