Isolating vocals from AVI source

kiarrens · Post by **kiarrens** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:05 pm

I'm making an AMV in which I am inserting some of the original japanese dialogue in an underlying layer to the music, but the dialogue has some background music which is a little disharmonious to the music. The dialogue is from an AVI source so there's no separate audio track.
I've tried just about every single filter and effect in Cool Edit Pro and nothing is working... I don't need to get rid of the background music completely, just fade it down a little. Does anyone have any suggestions on this, or is it impossible?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:39 pm

The only thing I can think of is perhaps using a graphic equalizer to boost the frequencies of the vocals and take down all the other frequencies, but I've never tried this myself.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:19 pm

- it can be done in Cool-Edit:
goto Transform, then filter.
- If you look at the right hand side of that Graph, there are two boxxes:
one might say [ 15 ] and the lower one might say [ -15 ]
- Change those numbers to [ 53 ] and [ -42 ] ( you've just made a DBX enhancer.

I know this step works because it was used three times in my Stellvia AMV to
accent a Voice, then screams while falling and finally the "Semi-Auto" alarm.

this method works