Some Sound Success With Some Oddities

Well, there's been some ups and downs here and there with the sound and video. I had taken some of the video off the tapes from Day Two to get some of the pick up scenes we did, and had a listen to the sound. It sounded like it was blasting out the speakers! I turned it down, and tried to turn the sound down in Soundbooth, but it didn't help. I let the Engineer know so he could look into it.

Then, out of curiosity, I tried to load the sounds into Movie Maker, but the program said it didn't have the codec to play it. Wait a minute. It's a wav file. Wav is a Windows media type. It would be only logical for a Windows program to have the codec built into it. After all, the original wavs loaded in. However... Those files were originally aif files, which Movie Maker was unable to load, and for day two, the Engineer saved the files as wavs instead of going through the aif step. It's possible that they're actually aif files since both Movie Maker and Soundbooth perform the way with them. I can save these as wavs from Soundbooth, but Movie Maker still won't load them. 

Well, over the past few weeks, I'd been messing with Pinnacle, and so I tried to load the sound into it. That worked which brings me forward to where I am now. I figured out how to get an uncompressed audio file out of a completed avi file. I found I could load the avi into Soundbooth and then save the audio as a wav file. It can be worked as an audio file and then reloaded uncompressed into Movie Maker and align with the original video file perfectly. This means I am free and clear to start editing which I did.

I've only done a few scenes so far, but I've found an odd issue with Movie Maker that I've worked around so far. It seems when you cut a bit of the video and move it to the audio track, and then mute the audio from the original video during that time frame, it mutes the audio for the rest of the file. Weird. I managed to work around it for that file, but I'm not only unsure what causes it, but I don't know what I'll do if it happens again, and I can't get around it. Pinnacle, I've found, is interesting enough, but as I'm unpractised with it, I don't know if I want to really experiment with a new program in the middle of a film. I know I'm going to use it for some advanced features, but I was hoping for my comfort zone for the first pass.

I'll see how it goes. For now, Movie Maker is doing okay. I guess I'll see how it goes.