editing audio on 2 channels

[elliottsmith]

Hi,
had some great help from Craig Newman on adjusting audio levels on both channels but am still struggling to find how to make it work. I have printed the advice given by Craig but am missing some important click.

I have a kron plus with smartedit 8 but cannot find how to adjust from editing section.
I have done a practice tape and recordered using the camera mike in one channel and the radio mike in the other.I can get them both to play but cannot split the sound to be to be able to raise or lower the level on each one. Help1 This is what happens when you try to be too technical when you are in your seventies.
Any help would be grateful.

Regards,

Dave
elliottsmith

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Casablanca Unit: kron plus

[BobFoster]

In the audio edit window, you can put your curser in the middle of the audio graph and drag it left or right to highlight a segment and then use the volume control to raise or lower the audio level of that segment. You can also place the curser above or below the center and highlight just one channel. Then use the volume control slider to adjust just that one channel.

[CKNewman]

Dave, I don't know how familiar you are with the Smart Edit interface or Casablanca editing in general. If you haven't done so already, I would suggest downloading the Smart Edit 7 manual along with the Smart Edit 8 supplement. Your profile doesn't say where you're from, perhaps its England because your camcorder has a UK model number.

There is a Casablanca dealership http://www.dalco.co.uk/index.html who may be able to help you via a telephone call with some questions.

I would highly recommend Chet Davis' three DVD training DVD on Smart Edit 8/Bogart 2 http://cassieexpert.live.subhub.com/store/products/11

You posted,

I have a kron plus with smartedit 8 but cannot find how to adjust from editing section.

Audio is edited in the Audio Record and Audio Mix screens, not the main Edit screen.

[elliottsmith]

thanks for your advice.regards,
dave

[LouBruno]

Try to get an understanding of the audio envelope. Precise audio adjustment.

[CKNewman]

Hi Dave,

I suggested using those resources because they illustrate and explain the features in Smart Edit 8, where they are, and how they work. Downloading the manual should be free. Chet's DVDs are indexed and authored so that you can navigate directly to the chapter that covers the topic you wish to learn more about. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this video set is worth an Oxford's Dictionary! I own a copy myself and cannot recommend it highly enough. One more point here; the information in these traning video is still useful in understanding the software versions that are currently in use. If you should decide to move to the Casablanca Bogart editing platform at some point (now Bogart 8) you will find many similarities with the older Smart Edit interface.

Since you haven't mentioned how long you've been using the Kron with the Sony camcorder, I would also suggest that if you haven't done so, learn about how your camcorder should be set to work best with your editing software and the destination media. Try some tests that start with recording and end with a finished DVD - and of course watch that DVD in a player and television in another room. Let us know how you're coming along.

[MichaelD]

As a test . . .

Get yourself into an empty project and have abut 20 seconds of your 'mixed' audio video in there.

Go to Special (in Edit) and Scene Sample - it's near the top. Nothing appears to happen but in you now look in Audio Record you'll have a 20 second Audio clip (with both your tracks on it still).

In there go into Special and use the Copy Channel "Left ~ Right" and it'll produce another audio clip with the left audio on it twice.

Apply Copy Channel "Right ~ Left" (to the ORIGINAL CLIP) and you'll now have a third track with the right audio on it twice.

In Audio Mix add these two tracks and Mute the original. You can now use either your left Audio or Right Audio independently of each other with either "envelope" or the old fashioned way, that still works, of using blocks of silence to affect other audio tracks.

[LouBruno]

Perfect Michael.....worthy of printing and saving.