everyone edits the video, but what about the audio?

[Jasta85]

Now, if this is already common practice then feel free to laugh at me for being behind the times, but i just "discovered" this a little while ago.

When making amvs everyone manipulates the video in a variety of ways. Could be just sticking clips together in a different order to spraying all sorts of special effects over the video. However, something that never occured to me was the editing of the audio. I dont mean cutting out a verse or blending two songs together, i mean actually changing the sound of the song itself.

This concept first hit me when i was looking at a potential song for a romantic amv. The song itself is excellent but is very very slowly sung and in a few parts i just wanted the singer to speed it up a bit. It then occured to me that i can do just that, with my editing program i can speed up an audio segment (and even keep the same pitch if i want). However, when i sped up the song to about 110-115% faster speeds i was amazed, it sounded as if the song was being sung by a completely different person (one who was 10 years younger than the original artist as well). It actually sounded even better than the original.

I have another program which manipulate audio as well so i may play around with adjusting the pitch and speed of the song to fit my taste. But anyway, i was wondering if anyone else does similar things with their music. I hadnt even really considered changing the actual sound of the music i used until i did my little experiment with this.

[Beowulf]

Leave the song alone. If you don't like it, use another song.[/u]

[Knowname]

I somewhat agree with Beo. audio is VERY touchy to the point of being almost uneditable.

HOWEVER there are times when Beo's stance is just dead wrong. Some songs are just meant to be edited, even if it's just taking out that final chorus or guitar solo. The tricky thing, though, is just doing it right. You may be better off just leaving it alone.

[Pas]

I somewhat agree with Beo. audio is VERY touchy to the point of being almost uneditable.

Some songs are just meant to be edited, even if it's just taking out that final chorus or guitar solo.

>.>

You serious? You totally just contradicted yourself.

As for myself, I hardly ever bother to change my song much, simply due to the fact that, when I pick the song I usually think it's perfect for my AMV already, and I don't want to touch on what the people have so professionally done with my dirty Audacity.

I guess the most editing I do for audio would be shortening it, and changing the volume in some places.

[Flint the Dwarf]

Knowname sucks at writing things. Here's the translation:

"sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad"

[TRTrunks2]

I edit the audio almost every time, mostly because i'm to lazy or don't have enough material to do the whole song, sometimes it works good sometimes bad, mostly depends on the song...

[Knowname]

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[Purge]

increase speed = chipmunk voices - you never held the fast forward on a tape recorder half way down before ? - i dont think that just changing the speed/pitch would make me enjoy a song more but if theres some reason for it in your editing or concept then maybe. Its all a bit gimmicky

[Ginger Gouki]

After trying out some DDR tracks, I found that sometimes a full length track doesnt really work, so cutting 3:52's worth of audio down to about 1:40 can give the same feel as I was aiming for (handy if your low on source footage). I personaly use Audacity*plug* a v handy little free tool *plug*.

Mabe i've spent to much time liserning to ocremix stuff ^_^

But how drastic is the audio editing in question?

[Kitsuner]

In my last video (my iron chef against Tsunami Jones) I edited the audio more than I edited the video.