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Subject:Auto marking cassette tracks? Posted by: plasmavideo Date:8/7/2010 5:33:38 AM I have a number of audio cassette tapes to digitize - mostly my old music cassettes - before they fall apart. Is there a way to have SF mark or make regions of the tracks automatically? Currently, I digitize a whole tape, mark each track as a region, process that track and export to individual files. Is there a way to automatically detect and mark the tracks as regions? I tried different settings of auto region without success, as that appears to work best for quite short segments. TIA Tom Message last edited on8/7/2010 5:35:06 AM byplasmavideo.
Subject:RE: Auto marking cassette tracks? Reply by: Nick in Palatka FL Date:8/19/2010 6:45:08 AM Sony has added a tool called "Vinyl Recording and Restoration" to Audio Studio that automates this process. Having just tried it this week, it does automatically mark breaks in a recording (although too many since I am recording speeches). You might want to consider the Sound Forge Audio Studio just for this (plus the Vocal Eraser, from iZotope, which only works within Audio Studio). I prefer to use a program from Microsoft called the "Plus! Analog Recorder" which was part of the Plus! Digital Media Edition for Windows XP. (If you can find it - It is no longer supported, and won't run without being registered with Microsoft) This works very well, and as the program ends, you can see why. There is a credit that it is based on Cool Edit technology. The steps in Audio Studio's Tool are almost identical to those in Plus!. I believe that there are several other programs out there to do the same thing (split an audio input into individual tracks), so you may want to look for something outside of Sound Forge to do that part of the job. I usually end up editing in Sound Forge (I have version 8) after the tracks are split up and processed, so doing it in Audio Studio would make sense.
Subject:RE: Auto marking cassette tracks? Reply by: plasmavideo Date:8/25/2010 1:37:22 PM Thanks Nick. Found just what I needed in my old Cool Edit Pro using the Mark Phrases as cues function. I had thought I did it in SF before, but guess I had not. i just got a copy of the Studio suite for a secondary editing machine at work, but I have not installed it yet. I'll look for the functions you mentioned. Thanks again, and regards. Tom.

Subject:Auto marking cassette tracks?

Posted by: plasmavideo

Date:8/7/2010 5:33:38 AM

I have a number of audio cassette tapes to digitize - mostly my old music cassettes - before they fall apart.

Is there a way to have SF mark or make regions of the tracks automatically? Currently, I digitize a whole tape, mark each track as a region, process that track and export to individual files. Is there a way to automatically detect and mark the tracks as regions? I tried different settings of auto region without success, as that appears to work best for quite short segments.

TIA

Tom

Message last edited on8/7/2010 5:35:06 AM byplasmavideo.

Subject:RE: Auto marking cassette tracks?

Reply by: Nick in Palatka FL

Date:8/19/2010 6:45:08 AM

Sony has added a tool called "Vinyl Recording and Restoration" to Audio Studio that automates this process. Having just tried it this week, it does automatically mark breaks in a recording (although too many since I am recording speeches). You might want to consider the Sound Forge Audio Studio just for this (plus the Vocal Eraser, from iZotope, which only works within Audio Studio).

I prefer to use a program from Microsoft called the "Plus! Analog Recorder" which was part of the Plus! Digital Media Edition for Windows XP. (If you can find it - It is no longer supported, and won't run without being registered with Microsoft) This works very well, and as the program ends, you can see why. There is a credit that it is based on Cool Edit technology.

The steps in Audio Studio's Tool are almost identical to those in Plus!. I believe that there are several other programs out there to do the same thing (split an audio input into individual tracks), so you may want to look for something outside of Sound Forge to do that part of the job.

I usually end up editing in Sound Forge (I have version 8) after the tracks are split up and processed, so doing it in Audio Studio would make sense.

Subject:RE: Auto marking cassette tracks?

Reply by: plasmavideo

Date:8/25/2010 1:37:22 PM

Thanks Nick. Found just what I needed in my old Cool Edit Pro using the Mark Phrases as cues function. I had thought I did it in SF before, but guess I had not.

i just got a copy of the Studio suite for a secondary editing machine at work, but I have not installed it yet. I'll look for the functions you mentioned.

Thanks again, and regards.

Tom.