Adobe Soundbooth

[JP's]

I am considering purchasing Adobe Soundbooth to edit audio for home movies. I would like to stretch, reduce vocals and adjust the music to fit the video. I do not have an audio background and do not want a professional level audio editor.

I am currently using PE4 for the video editor.

Does anyone have any experience with Soundbooth?

Likes, dislikes, thoughts, any recommendations would be appreciated.

[Gooder]

Hi JP's,

There was a post on this awhile back
I use Adobe Audition 1.5 but have not tried Soundbooth yet!

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2143&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=soundbooth

Hope it helps
Lee

[Briantho]

How professional do you want this stuff to be? I do a fair number of amateur shows (musicals etc) and for my needs I find the PE3/4 'maintain pitch' option pretty good most of the time. Just an idea in case you haven't really tried it out yet.

[Chuck Engels]

Soundbooth is nice and it does a bit more than what you need according to your post.
You might want to try Audacity first, it is free and a lot of us use it.

[JP's]

Thanks for the replies!

I did a search and somehow missed that thread.

All of this is new to me (video editing, sound, etc.).

I am looking for a editor that can stretch a sound track out and reduce the vocals to fit a short video. Having the ability to clean up audio tracks from old home movies would be a great. I am learning and would like to have an editor that I can grow into. I would like to have the ability to add audio tracks, clips and sound effects to home movies. Compatibility was one of the reasons I looked at Soundbooth. I know there are other editors that are compatible.....just don't know which one.

I have only briefly checked into the proffesional editors. They are nice but I would never use them to there potential. Soundbooth is more than I would need but who knows....

[Chuck Engels]

There are only two ways to stretch a soundtrack out;

1. slow it down (which you can do in Premiere Elements with the Time Stretch Tool)
2. duplicate parts over and over again (which you can do in Premiere Elements but it is much easier in Audacity)

Number 2 takes a little skill to get it so you can't notice that you have copied and pasted parts to make the song longer but with practice it can be done very well.

I suggest using Audacity to start, get your training on a free tool, then the switch to Soundbooth later will be much easier.
Audacity can do everything you are looking for and then some, it would be an excellent tool to learn.

[JP's]

Thank you for the help.

I will try out Audacity.

[Chuck Engels]

There are 3 tutorials in the products section on Audacity, there is also a audio forum here, and there are tons of people that know how to use it.
I think you can be safe thinking that you can get your questions answered here and get all the help you might need

[JP's]

I will check the Audacity tutorials. The PE tutorials have been very helpful. I have been trying to figure out PE4 & PS6 with the help of PE2 in a Snap and The Missing Manual. I have never used any kind of editor before. I have had trouble every step of the way but....that's the way it is when you learn something new.

Thanks again for the help.
James

[JP's]

I just found the Audio forum.

Please forgive the newb.

[Chuck Engels]

No problem James, I moved the topic to the Audio forum.
Could also have been put under the Tools forum I suppose, but this should be fine

[RJ Johnston]

If you already have the full version of Nero 7 or 8, you get Soundtrax and WaveEditor. There's a karaoke filter under Tools that removes vocals.

[JP's]

Thanks for the tip!

I am still looking around at what is available for newbies.