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Quite simply: You don't. End users generally get them by extracting them from games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band, which have these tracks separated. The tracks themselves are provided by the bands or record labels.
The links you provided are ALL based on tracks from the original studio recordings and were NOT extracted from the final master.
While ...
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There's also Jokosher
Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.
It's rather easy to use and not nearly as powerful as Ardour. Apparently, besides Ubuntu it works quite well on other Linux operating system, Windows and, of course, ...
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VLMC is a non-linear multitrack editor. It's based on VLC and inherits a pretty vast format compatibility from that. The UI is a little rough, but it gets the job done.
Lightworks is a more recent project and seems polished. It's rooted in broadcast editing, so a large number of familiar codecs are unsupported. It supports Matrox codecs, which you have to ...
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I believe the only answer to that is to take at least a 24hr break. Move onto another project or start something new. The number of times I have come back to something after a decent break and can all of a sudden see what needs to be done is shocking.
I don't believe their is a quick fix to this issue.
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See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducking
It is an effect that is created by using the sidechain input on a compressor.
Normally, a compressor will "turn down the volume" of its output based on increased volume at its input. But you can change that by sending a different audio signal into the sidechain input of the compressor; the compressor will ...
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In recent versions of FFmpeg, use the crop filter:
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -filter:v "crop=out_w,out_h,x,y" out.mp4
Where the options are as follows:
out_w is the width of the output rectangle
out_h is the height of the output rectangle
x and y specify the top left corner of the output rectangle
So, for example, to crop a 640×480 window, starting from ...
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PBS is made up of 354 different broadcasters and carry content from many different studios, it is highly unlikely that they all use one product and chances are good they use a product other than Final Cut or Premiere. Avid makes several very popular products and the software that drives actual broadcast studios isn't the same kind of software used by ...
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In my experience, the best way to fix a bad vocal recording is to make a good vocal recording. Good recordings start at the source.
Failing that, the most important thing is that the vocals be on pitch. Again, a proper vocal performance is the best thing for this, but pitch correction tools like Antares Autotune or Gsnap can help in a pinch. The tradeoff, ...
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Ardour has editing functionalities that really can be considered serious tools, although it has a more multitrack-approach on things in general, and editing is no exception. It is really worth a try though.
The real downside of Ardour is that it is not available for Windows. (Probably due to Jack, the low-latency audio hardware driver abstraction layer that ...
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When you import a lossy audio file into editing software, that file is decoded into an audio waveform. This is a "lossless" waveform in that it's not stored in a compressed format, but it's not the same as the original waveform that your lossy file was approximating.
So there are already three concepts involved:
The original waveform, which is to say, ...
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I've only used Premier, dabbled with it that is, and I did find it reasonably straight forward to get into (with some perseverance).
The only thing I can think of with music production software is the fact you're dealing with multiple concepts.
When using music production software it may help to separate each area into it's constituent components and study ...
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For something like an ongoing vocal recording the assumption would be that the settings and environment would be the same each time. This isn't very technical but it would be the first thing I would ask - that they use a standard config.
If you are trying to correct after the fact, a compressor can help you bring levels up to a standard.
Or if you have ...
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What you need is a sequencer that can also handle audio data, or an audio suite that also handles sequencing. Collectively, these programs are known as Digital Audio Workstations, commonly abbreviated DAWs. While the term "DAW" technically refers only to audio editing (waveforms), it's very common for a DAW to also support MIDI sequencing, or to be more of a ...
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Note that SyxEx data is, by its very nature, vendor specific. Supporting detailed SysEx editing would require custom work for each MIDI synth ever made. EMagic's Sounddriver did this, but was discontinued shortly after Apple bought EMagic.
You can accomplish a lot of MIDI and SysEx manipulation with Logic's environment, though it is awkward, poorly ...
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Subliminal CDs are pretty much a rip-off. The science is weak, but even if you did want to uncover the "subliminal" message, it'd take a ton of work (think of isolating vocals from a mixed down song). Since some of the methods for encoding the message involve reversing it or placing it outside the human hearing threshold (plausible deniability :D), this ...
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From your description of the audio, it is going to be hard to fix, as white noise tends to cover a very broad frequency spectrum and so is hard to get rid of without losing what you want to keep.
A decent starting point for you would be to use a freeware audio editing program like Audacity. Here is a noise removal tutorial using Audacity.
You can also use ...
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Key to this is the harmonics of the note. If you just play a 440Hz perfect sine wave it doesn't sound very exciting at all, but add in some of the harmonics and it starts to come alive.
If you add in the waveforms at 3x and 5x the fundamental, or at 2x the fundamental you will get a very different tonal effect. Varying the relative amplitude of these also ...
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In my experience both Premiere and FCP will do pretty much the same thing.
They have similar lay outs and, I would say, are as easy to use as each other. I first used Premiere when I had a PC but moved to FCP when I went to university and got a mac. I find it a lot easier to edit with FCP and the transition to other programs are very simple and effective ...
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I think one effect you could use for the modem effect is a ring modulator.
I created this with the first part of a song with my band and I did this in a couple of second with a preset but if you have a little more time, you can configure a lot in this plugin.
The plugin is RingModulator and it comes standard with Cubase 5 but I'm sure you can find a ...
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You might want to see Wikipedia's Comparison of video editors and list of video editing software. From my personal experience I recommend Kdenlive over any others. It has good support for a wide range of non-linear video editing functions. If you are the real geek, you may want to try out Cinelera.
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I personally run Cinelerra CV and it's "mochup" Cinecutie on my Linux boxes.
Cinelerra (and it's relatives) can do some very sophisticated editing work, but they aren't the easiest to use. Luckily, there are lots of video tutorials out there to help you.
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One solution to the jerkiness of stop-motion animation was developed for some Star Wars sequences, termed "Go Motion".
Basically the idea is that you leave the shutter open a little longer than necessary, and move the objects a bit, to create some motion blur.
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I currently do a few podcast and have some input on your workflow.
1) You have your high-pass and low-pass terminology backwards. A high-pass filter cuts low frequencies, a low-pass filter cuts high frequencies. Not a big deal, just remember that "low-pass" is only letting the lows pass, and blocking (filtering) everything else.
11 kHz is far, far too ...
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I recommend the Creative Cow web site, specifically, http://forums.creativecow.net/adobeaftereffects. This will serve your need for getting help on AE, but this is not a site for posting to find some one to do the work for you. Hope this helps.
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Typically you would sync all media first. There may not be a defining action and/or distinctive sound in the media that allows you to effectively sync audio and visual in the part of the clip that you want to keep - so it is best to have the entire clip on the timeline to assist with syncing. In filmmaking, syncing audio and vision is made easy via the use ...
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If I understand you correctly, you have recorded the whole band in one single take on a single stereo track. While recording in one take is not a bad thing, recording everything on one track is, it gives you virtually no possibility of post-processing. You should record at least the vocals on a seperate track, with a multichannel audio interface and/or by ...
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You can always try using auto-tune. I know it's gotten a bad reputation because of its heavy use in RnB and hip-hop, but the fact of the matter is that most producers use it when they're mixing and finalizing tracks. The key difference between let's say, T-Pain (auto-tune extraordinaire) and John Mayer (who has said he's used auto-tune on almost all of his ...
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I think the traditional knowledge is that if you want to be an editor, then you should know how to drive all 3 of the major programs (Avid, Final Cut Studio, and Premiere), and maybe some of the less mainstream broadcast editing and finishing systems (e.g. Smoke). You should probably know a handful of specialized audio programs too.
Lucky for you, the ...
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If you're not impressed with X then I'd suggest going back to version 7. Learning your way around a new program will be a pain in the arse.
I'm not sure how professionally you work but if you can be bothered, Avid is a great program once you get to know it.
Otherwise, man, I'd probably just get used to FCPX.
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So, the fundamental difficulty to understand here is that each individual sound is made up of many many composite frequencies. When you play A440 on a guitar, it sounds different from A440 on a piano because the piano has vastly different upper frequency content. You said "the waves", but this is a little bit misleading: The waveform you see when you record ...
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