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| Advanced: Editing Sound Tracks on Video Files |
| Capturing Digital Video | ||||
| This section describes how to edit audio in the video file captured from the DV (digital video) camcorder. | ||||
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| First, you need to have the digital video data ready. Capture the video data from your DV camcorder to your computer by using the video-editing software that supports DV capture. After capturing the video, save it in AVI file format. |
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| 1. Choose File - Open. The Open dialog box appears. In the Look In dropdown list, select the folder where the video data is saved. Next, locate and select the video file you captured from the DV camcorder, and click Open. * In the example below, the file nosound.avi in the Tutorial folder is used. |
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| 2. When you open the video file, you will see the video frame on the top of the Multi-track window. If the video frame is not visible, choose View -Video Track. |
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| 3. Choose View - Video Preview. The video preview window opens. Click the Play button on the Controller window to playback the video. | ||||
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| Importing a sound file | ||||
| Now, let's import sound files stored on your hard disk or sound clips on CD-ROM into the file you are working in MySoundStudio. | ||||
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| 1. Choose File - Import. In the Import dialog box that appears, select the folder in which sound files are stored. Locate and select a sound file you want to import, and click Open. * In the example below, we used the file soundtrack.wav in the Tutorial folder. |
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| 2. MySoundStudio adds a new track and displays the selected sound data there. | ||||
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| Post-recording voice narration | ||||
| MySoundStudio lets you record voice as you playback the existing video file. In the example below, we demonstrate how to record voice narration through microphone. |
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| Connect your microphone to the appropriate port on your computer. Due to limited capability of the microphone amplifier installed on the sound card, the quality of the sound recorded via microphone port on computers may not be as good as the one recorded via Line-In port. For better sound quality on recording voice via microphone, use the microphone amplifier available on the compact mixer as shown above. By connecting the Line-Out port of the compact mixer to the Line-In port on your computer, you can record voice via microphone with bypassing microphone amplifier on your sound card. |
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| 1. Make sure to enable Record While Playing checkbox on the Controller window. | ||||
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| 2. On the Controller window, click the Record button to make the program stand by for recording. | ||||
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| 3. Make sure that everything is ready for recording, click the Play button. MySoundStudio starts playing current video file. When the scene you want to record the narration is displayed, start speaking using the microphone. |
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| 4. When you finish recording narration, click the Stop button on the Controller window. | ||||
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| 5. MySoundStudio adds a new sound track and displays the waveform of the narration you just recorded in that track. | ||||
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| 6. Click the Goto Start All on the Controller to move the playback cursor to the beginning of all the tracks in the current file. Click the Play button on the Controller to check the recording result. |
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| Importing audio data from Audio CD | ||||
| MySoundStudio lets you import audio data from audio CDs directly into your computer. As the original sound quality is maintained, you can bring and edit the CD Audio data 'as is.' | ||||
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| 1. Insert an audio CD in your CD-ROM drive. If the audio CD automatically starts playing, exit the CD player. | ||||
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| 2. Choose File - Import. In the Import dialog box that appears, select the drive in which the audio CD is placed. In the file list, all tracks on the audio CD are displayed with ".cda" extension appended to each track name. | ||||
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| 3. Select a file (a track on the audio CD), and click Open. MySoundStudio will add a new track and load the selected track in that track. | ||||
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| NOTE: The audio data recorded on the audio CDs are copyrighted under copyright law. Use of such data is allowed for your personal pleasure only. Use of such data for any other purpose is prohibited without prior consent of the copyright owner of the audio data. |
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| Exporting audio data to AVI files | ||||
| MySoundStudio allows you to save the sound data you recorded as an AVI file. | ||||
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| 1. Choose File - Export to display the Export dialog. Type the file name, and click Save. Enable the Mixdown checkbox to save the post-recorded audio or BGM along with existing audio and video data in a single AVI file. |
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| 2. Click Save. The Compression Options dialog box appears. Accept the default settings and click OK. * This dialog box lists the video/audio compressors and their options available on your computer. Use this dialog when you want to change how video or audio tracks would be compressed in the specified file format. |
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| 3. When the following dialog box appears, click Yes. | ||||
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| 4. MySoundStudio mixes down sound tracks and displays in a new multi-track window. | ||||
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