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Title: Fixing digital video that has a clipped audio
Post by: frankvid on July 11, 2004, 11:45:47 AM
I video recorded a loud concert with a digital camcorder, but since I had no control over mic volume, I got a lot of clipping on the audio. Does anyone know how to fix it? I have Soundforge 6.0 and ULead Media Studio Pro 7.0 software.
Any suggestions would be great. I do plan on running external mikes with volume control on the next session.

Thanks Frank
Title: Re: Fixing digital video that has a clipped audio
Post by: Hemlock on July 11, 2004, 02:25:53 PM
Unless you have a clean audio track of the event you can overlay, you're pretty much out of luck.  Clipped audio is lost information.  There's no way to get it back.  There *may* be software out there that tries to recreate the clipped part of the waveform based on what has been captured, but I don't know of any.  (And I'd be surprised if it worked in a complex audio environment like a concert.)
Title: Re: Fixing digital video that has a clipped audio
Post by: AT853rxwh on July 11, 2004, 02:31:04 PM
Unless you have a clean audio track of the event you can overlay, you're pretty much out of luck.  Clipped audio is lost information.  There's no way to get it back.  There *may* be software out there that tries to recreate the clipped part of the waveform based on what has been captured, but I don't know of any.  (And I'd be surprised if it worked in a complex audio environment like a concert.)

Sound Forge has a plugin that does it, but, I have only had luck with short clips, if it is all clipping there is little to work with...
Title: Re: Fixing digital video that has a clipped audio
Post by: Mark on July 13, 2004, 12:10:27 PM
Sounds like you need an audio patch at all shows you video.  Do you happen to know of anyone that might be able to help out?  Sorry I couldn't make it to JBB with ya Frank. 

Title: Re: Fixing digital video that has a clipped audio
Post by: Uncle Jimmy on July 13, 2004, 02:58:13 PM
yeah... with auxilary audio, you could make it really nice. I did that with a non-tf band and it came out pretty great. There were minor synch problems with the video, but pretty sweet nonetheless.


if you want more help, just ask.

-UJ