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Subject:Sound Forge editing recordings Posted by: choy Date:11/5/2004 7:44:28 AM Please help! I have two related questions. I record long meetings sometimes in hours. I usually open SF and record the meeting directly to my laptop and save the file in mp3 (to save storage space), then transfer the file to CD to listen afterwards. This way, a CD can play the recordings for hours. In order to use the recording effectively, I would like to: 1. Automatically divide the recordings into equal segments (better individual files), say every five minutes each, so that when I burn them on a CD (say in mp3). Then I can fast-forward or skip segments forward/backward as if I am playing a music CD when skipping songs. Right now the recordings are in one file and I always have to start from the beginnig again if I had stopped playing half-way. It is time-consuming and very frustrating. 2. There are often moments of prolonged silence during meetings. Is there a function to automatically cut off those silent moments and just keep the talking parts? I suppose I could use threshold to eliminate the silent parts, but it would affect the quality badly as sometimes the speakers’ voices are low and will be cut off so the sentences become incomplete. Also, I hope to still keep about half second between pauses, so that the finished file won’t become hours of continuous talking without pause. Right now I have to open the file in wave form in SF, and visually look for silent areas and delete them before saving. It is very exhausting to edit hours of recordings this way. Your advice is much appreciated. I am still using SF6 even I had bought SF7 shortly after it came out.
Subject:RE: Sound Forge editing recordings Reply by: Iacobus Date:11/6/2004 6:54:08 PM 1. Hmm. During recording, you could use the M key to place a marker. After recording, use Special>Regions List>Markers to Regions to convert the markers to regions. Then, use the Tools>Extract Regions command to split up your one long file into smaller pieces, then burn them using the CD burning app of your choice. 2. You could try Sound Forge 7's automatic threshold recording feature. There's a setting (release) that will allow you to set the amount of time that passes before Sound Forge stops recording under the set threshold. For your existing recordings, you could make a 5 minute selection and then press R to create a Region. Use SHIFT+> to shift the selection right and then repeat. After doing that, you can use the extract regions command and burn to CD. HTH, Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid Pre-order Instant ACID Guitars 4 Kids

Subject:Sound Forge editing recordings

Posted by: choy

Date:11/5/2004 7:44:28 AM

Please help! I have two related questions. I record long meetings sometimes in hours. I usually open SF and record the meeting directly to my laptop and save the file in mp3 (to save storage space), then transfer the file to CD to listen afterwards. This way, a CD can play the recordings for hours. In order to use the recording effectively, I would like to:

1. Automatically divide the recordings into equal segments (better individual files), say every five minutes each, so that when I burn them on a CD (say in mp3). Then I can fast-forward or skip segments forward/backward as if I am playing a music CD when skipping songs. Right now the recordings are in one file and I always have to start from the beginnig again if I had stopped playing half-way. It is time-consuming and very frustrating.

2. There are often moments of prolonged silence during meetings. Is there a function to automatically cut off those silent moments and just keep the talking parts? I suppose I could use threshold to eliminate the silent parts, but it would affect the quality badly as sometimes the speakers’ voices are low and will be cut off so the sentences become incomplete. Also, I hope to still keep about half second between pauses, so that the finished file won’t become hours of continuous talking without pause. Right now I have to open the file in wave form in SF, and visually look for silent areas and delete them before saving. It is very exhausting to edit hours of recordings this way.
Your advice is much appreciated.

I am still using SF6 even I had bought SF7 shortly after it came out.

Subject:RE: Sound Forge editing recordings

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:11/6/2004 6:54:08 PM

1. Hmm.

During recording, you could use the M key to place a marker. After recording, use Special>Regions List>Markers to Regions to convert the markers to regions.

Then, use the Tools>Extract Regions command to split up your one long file into smaller pieces, then burn them using the CD burning app of your choice.

2. You could try Sound Forge 7's automatic threshold recording feature. There's a setting (release) that will allow you to set the amount of time that passes before Sound Forge stops recording under the set threshold.

For your existing recordings, you could make a 5 minute selection and then press R to create a Region. Use SHIFT+> to shift the selection right and then repeat. After doing that, you can use the extract regions command and burn to CD.

HTH,
Iacobus
-------
RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
Pre-order Instant ACID
Guitars 4 Kids