I have no clue how to do this, but it sounds like a fun challenge. If you want to send me the sample, I'll see what I can come up with... no guarantees though.
Jason On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Rogan Creswick <cresw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I apologize for the tangential nature of this post, but I am hoping > for a linux-based solution and I don't know where else to ask right > now. > > I have a video of a talk that is spattered with very loud, > ear-wrenching, bursts of static at random intervals. There are quite > a few of these bursts (on average, probably one every 20-30 seconds), > and they are at least one order of magnitude louder than the important > audio. It seems like it should be a simple matter to normalize the > volume so that it is possible to listen to the audio. I've come to > terms with the fact that the underlying audio is lost during these > bursts of static, but I would at least like to make it possible to > listen to the stream without blasting static randomly. > > Does anyone know how to do this? I've stripped the audio and played > with it in audacity, but I don't know enough to make the options do > what needs done -- the best I've been able to do is to generate a > noise profile for a section of static, then use that to reduce the > static of each individual section. This requires manually selecting > the portion of the audio wave that corresponds to the burst of static > and re-running the noise filter for *every* burst. That simply > doesn't scale to the full length of the video--it would be easier to > simply re-record the talk (which would loose audience commentary, > etc...). > > I would be very appreciative of any suggestions or pointers to audio > editing communities that may be able to help. I also have a short > sample of the video I could share off-list if you'd like to take a > closer look. > > Thanks! > Rogan > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug