Video Fix?

grizz · Post by **grizz** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 5:12 pm

My son video-recorded my daughter singing at an event, but he was standing under a ceiling fan when he did the recording. It picked up a lot of static noise from the ceiling fan, very annoying.

I would like to turn this into a DVD for grandparents, etc., if I can edit out the static. anyone know a program that will allow me to do that? Preferably freeware.

I've had good luck editing sound files, but none of my video editing software will do what I want to do.

I had a similar problem with a DVD of my sons wedding which I would like to be able to fix.

Floyd · Post by **Floyd** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:30 am

you could seperate the audio and video track, edit the sound with which you had luck before and put them back together afterwards.

grizz · Post by **grizz** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:16 am

At the risk of sounding as green as I really am, how do I separate the video and audio?

Bet51987 · Post by **Bet51987** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:55 am

Hi Grizz...

What kind of video camera was used? Was it a VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, DVD, and does it have a \"passthru\" connection?

Do you have a capure card?

Bee

grizz · Post by **grizz** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:53 pm

Hiya Bett,

My son used my wifes 6.2 mp Nikon to record my daughter singing. It records in .mov format, and I used Yasa to convert it to .avi & .mpg.

We recorded my son's wedding on our VHS-C video recorder, onto a dvd recorder from there, then to my computer where I converted it to .mpg with Nero 7.

I haven't figured out how to separate the sound from the video to edit it though.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:01 pm

Grizz: every time you convert between compressed formats you lose audio and video fidelity. You're best off working in the first format you can and then converting from there, but if you recorded with a digital camera to begin with there's not a whole lot you can do to make it better.

Bet51987 · Post by **Bet51987** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:21 pm

Grizz...

All you have to do is bring the AVI video into Virtual Dub. I use that program along with Studio 7, and Windows Movie Maker.

Go here and get it for free. Its a newer version than mine which is 1.6.12 but the new version should do the same thing.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=536408

Then, go to this site...wait for the advertisement to go away, and read it.

http://www.vcdhelp.us/index.html?html/t ... ~mainFrame

Basically, you can import your AVI, save the audio as a WAV file, then close out. Edit the WAV file with \"whatever\"

, then import your original AVI again, then import the new WAV which will overwrite the WAV in the AVI....

I use these programs for my taunts...

Hope this helps

Bee

EDIT.... I just used 1.7.3, stripped the audio from a avi movie and replaced it with a totally different audio and saved the whole thing as an avi again... It works.

grizz · Post by **grizz** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:27 pm

Thanks Bett, thats what I needed. I had a .wav extracted from the video 5 minutes after I saw your post, sweet and easy. I'll let you know how the editing turns out.
Maybe I'll post it somewhere for you to critique, since you sing.