Switching Audio Direction in PD9?

Mesden1

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Jul 13, 2011 16:20

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to figure out how I would set up Power Director for a particular audio recording to sound like it'd distant. My thoughts were to have it come out of ONLY the left speaker, or only the right speaker, or even come out of the rear speakers in a surround setup. Is this possible to do with PD9?

BarryTheCrab

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Jul 14, 2011 08:14

The only thing I can recommend is tweaking your audio in WaveEditor. You can limit it to 1 channel, left or right, and adjust the volume too. With a little finesse you might even mimic the Doppler Effect. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jul 14, 2011 19:48

Most logical method I know of would be doing it outside of PD, however, does the CLVS > Stadium option give you enough "distance" that you are looking for?

Jeff

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Jul 14, 2011 20:41

As we're not suppose to mention or recommend other products other than PD I just think that the AUDACITY of those two Senior Contributors is quite amazing Happing editing

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Jul 15, 2011 05:29

Hi,
As a specialist (standalone and not installed software) free audio editing program Audacity is pretty good. For mp3 creation you'll need to acquire the lame.dll file as well. Before WaveEditor was developed by CyberLink, Audacity was a good option to work with, to edit audio files.

Be bold Neil, you usually are, no need to show any audacity here

Update; Wave Editor is a "free" packaged product by CyberLink. Audacity is a free software, no support is given for it on this or any CL forum.

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BarryTheCrab

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Jul 15, 2011 08:35

I have no issues with Audacity, well, er, the program, to be more specific, but...wouldn't W.E. work for this?
My thought being you already HAVE the W.E., and I try to keep my programs to a minimum.

As for the MP3 creation, I avoid MP3's because PD can't swallow them without coughing up screeches and crackles.
Many of my SFX are MP3's and I can no longer use them, I am always forced to get a new wave from Freesound.

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ClancM

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Jul 16, 2011 01:04

It works vary well with WE, i did a test with a plane audio, that was originally a one channel sound, and got a good left to right speaker effect.

Just select where you want the change to start and have one channel go from 100% volume to 0% using the fade effect. 0% being at the end.
And have the other do the opposite. 100% being at the end.

The attached file is the finished audio.

Filename	plane left to right.wav	Download
Description	A plane going from left speaker to right.
Filesize	1388 Kbytes
Downloaded:	326 time(s)