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Subject:creating even breaks of silence Posted by: davidanderson Date:7/21/2003 6:48:07 PM Hi, We're currently using sound Forge xp. Is it possbile with any version of Sound Forge to select a long audio track and have the pauses between narration evened out? For example, we do narration recording and most times the speakers are so good we don't need to edit their pace but often with new narrators their pacing may not be as consistent. I'd like to keep an even pace for all breaks between narration. I do this so often I can eyeball most of it close enough but any type of filter that could do it across the entire file would be great. Thanks
Subject:RE: creating even breaks of silence Reply by: RiRo Date:7/21/2003 11:39:15 PM Yup. Auto trim/crop. You will have to play with settings, but it can do exactly what you are talking about RiRo
Subject:RE: creating even breaks of silence Reply by: davidanderson Date:7/22/2003 11:52:44 AM Hi and thank you for your reply. I curently have access to only SF XP 4.5 and the only option I see a trip/crop option under the Edit menu. After reading the help files it seems this is a tool for deleting all content ouside of a current selection. I don't see an auto trip/crop function so maybe that is what I"m missing? Currently this reminds me of the trim canvas command in Photoshop where all non selected data is cropped away. I'm looking for an automated way to automate the silence between tracks. For example when a narrator is reading a long bullet point list, ofen they'll pause longer betwen some points and for our purposes we edit the breaks to keep them consistent. Thanks! David
Subject:RE: creating even breaks of silence Reply by: Chienworks Date:7/23/2003 7:29:27 AM The only suggestion i can think of is to create a file containing the desired length of silence (actually you might want to copy from one of the pauses in the recording so any background noise is still there, otherwise it will sound very unnatural), then copy this file to the clipboard. Then while editing the recording, highlight each gap and press Ctrl-V to paste the constant silent gap. This isn't as automatic as you'd like since you have to do this for every gap, but it does fix the duration for each one.
Subject:RE: creating even breaks of silence Reply by: paraclete Date:9/19/2003 1:45:25 PM It appears this can be accomplished by setting the Fade-out parameter. For example, with 6.0e, using 500ms causes the long silent gaps to be reduced to 500ms (half second). Oddly, the fade-in didn't seem to have that effect ???
Subject:RE: creating even breaks of silence Reply by: keether Date:9/19/2003 6:00:09 PM Ditto to Chienworks' comment. I've regularly used small custom-made "sound of silence.wav" files compatible for insertion here and there into sound files. And, to repeat what C said, the 'silence' needs to be appropriate to the rest of the file. When it's done right, you can't help smiling.

Subject:creating even breaks of silence

Date:7/21/2003 6:48:07 PM

Hi,

We're currently using sound Forge xp. Is it possbile with any version of Sound Forge to select a long audio track and have the pauses between narration evened out? For example, we do narration recording and most times the speakers are so good we don't need to edit their pace but often with new narrators their pacing may not be as consistent. I'd like to keep an even pace for all breaks between narration. I do this so often I can eyeball most of it close enough but any type of filter that could do it across the entire file would be great.

Thanks