Subject:Sound Forge Vs ACID
Posted by: JimTuch
Date:4/26/2003 11:19:24 AM
I am looking for advice from those with experience using both Sound Forge and Acid. I have Acid 4.0 which I use to record and edit mostly narration and occassionally edit music for use in video projects. Most of my sound editing (done with filters) is in Adobe Premiere. At times I wish I had more ability to isolate extraneous noises and get ride of them. Can you tell me if Sound Forge is a better product than Acid to do this kind of work? How do these two programs differ? Would appreciate any insights before I shell out several hundred dollars for SF. Thanks. |
Subject:RE: Sound Forge Vs ACID
Reply by: Geoff_Wood
Date:4/26/2003 5:47:08 PM
Most certainly it is. WHat you have been trying to do is a bit like trying to write a letter in MS Paint. Well, maybe not quite... ;-) geoff |
Subject:RE: Sound Forge Vs ACID
Reply by: Sonic
Date:4/28/2003 9:30:04 AM
I might add that demos of both products are available on the Sonic Foundry website. Try 'em out yourself. J. |
Subject:RE: Sound Forge Vs ACID
Reply by: Rednroll
Date:4/28/2003 12:49:53 PM
Sound Forge is ideal for the use you are looking for. Acid and Sound Forge differ, that sound forge is a stereo editor/recorder. Thus you can disect and edit the waveform. Acid is more of an arrangement/multi-track type application for mixing multiple files together. Getting Sound Forge is a good idea for what you're looking for. Sound Forge integrates nicely with ACID, so instead of using one over the other, you can actually use them in conjunction with one another. In other words, you can make an arrangement in ACID, and if you find there's an offensive extraneous noise, you can select that waveform, and do an "open in soundforge" from within ACID. Then after you save the changes in Sound Forge, these changes automatically get updated in ACID. BTW: Sound Forge is not "several hundred dollars". It's more in the $300-$350 dollar category. You might even be able to get "Sound Forge Studio 6.0" version to fit your needs. I'm not so familiar with the differences between Sound Forge Studio vs. Sound Forge 6.0/Pro. I believe Studio doesn't support DX plugins, and Time sync functions...I believe there's a comparison between the 2 under the "products section". Sound Forge Studio goes for $70. You might want to check that out also, to see what best suits your needs. |
Subject:RE: Sound Forge Vs ACID
Reply by: JimTuch
Date:4/28/2003 9:04:05 PM
Thanks for the advice. Sounds like Sound Forge (no pun intended) is a purchase I should make. I have always focused on the video portion of my work, but it is becoming more and more apparent to me that great sound is just as important. I can really do a lot from within Premiere. The latest version supports Direct X plug-ins. I have and use Sonic Foundry DirectX Plugins and Noise Reduction 2.0 from with in Premiere. But, I will download the demo and play with it. |
Subject:RE: Sound Forge Vs ACID
Reply by: Rednroll
Date:4/29/2003 11:26:43 AM
Also, while you are downloading you should really try Vegas 4.0. For your type of work you're doing, it is also ideal. Vegas is a video editor and it kicks Premiere's ass. I'm primarily an audio guy and I started to learn video editing at a recording studio I worked at, and started to learn on Premiere. After, Vegas implemented video editing features, I threw my Premiere frustrations away and never looked back. I can edit video like a pro on Vegas, and like I said...I'm primarily an audio guy. Vegas is also a multi-track editor. It is very similar to Acid, but more powerful on editing ability of the audio. It too integrates with Sound Forge like Acid does. I use Vegas, Acid, and Sound Forge, and SF Noise reduction. These meet ALL my audio requirements and occassionally I'll do some Video stuff in Vegas. I'll occassionally have to open something up in Adobe Photoshop, but even then I'll open the image in Photoshop, do some editing, hit save and the changes get implemented in Vegas. I suppose if I really wanted to go the entire Sonic Foundry product line, I could use "Viscosity" and elliminate Photoshop, but it looks like that product may have died. It's pretty hard to compete with an industry standard like Photoshop. I was doing some audio post work for a video editor from another studio once who worked on Avid, Premiere, and Illustrator. I showed him how easy and powerful Vegas was in video editing because that's what I was also using for doing the audio post work and he was amazed by the realtime previews and how quick and easy Vegas was. It came to the point, where we were doing the audio work and he started to notice some flaws in his editing, so rather than take them back to his studio, we just did them in Vegas. |