Removing background music

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Postby trythil » Fri Aug 02, 2002 3:52 am

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:But this is a voiceover - it's blatantly going to be all centre channel so the principle should work pretty well.


This is getting into technicalities, but does she mean "vocals" or "voiceover"? I don't see her making the differentiation anywhere in the thread.

I'm trying to do voiceovers for my video but there's music in the background that's very distracting. Is there anything I can do to get rid of it?


She wants to do voiceovers for her video, but what does that say about the source she's using?
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Postby trythil » Fri Aug 02, 2002 3:53 am

Erm, never mind that above post. I stood there for a couple minutes and realized how it could work.
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Postby Sierra Lorna » Fri Aug 02, 2002 1:34 pm

Okay, I'm trying to use the sound track from one the Trigun episodes. I've extracted the sound file, and I'm trying to add it into my video. I want this one part where a character is talking. But there's music in the background. I'm not trying to take vocals away from a song, I'm taking away music from the vocals.

All I meant by "voiceover" was a voiceover in my video of someone talking. You've all seen that in an AMV before, right?

I hope I make sense now. I'm not very good with terminology. :)
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Fri Aug 02, 2002 1:43 pm

I knew what you were talking about and my method should work.

The way I can think of which can be done with many programs is as follows:

1) Get an audio editing program such as Soundforge or cooledit or something... actually even using Premiere might work.

2) Download a Direct X Audio filter to remove vocals (a karaoke filter) I think there's one called Analogue X or something. Do a google search, there should be a few.

3) Install that and apply it to your audio and save as a copy. You will now have a copy without the vocals.

4) Subtract the new track from the old one. There's a few ways of doing this depending on the program you have but you should be able to do it my inverting the new voiceless wave (btw NOT swapping channels, just inverting) and playing it at the same time as the original. You can actually do this in premiere. This *should* remove the music and leave the vocals.

Good luck
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