Changing the frequency of a clip.

Bobmck

Newbie Joined: Aug 17, 2013 20:01 Messages: 1 Offline

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Aug 22, 2013 20:04

Just moved up from a series of Pinnacles, Avid and Vegas. The learning curve on the Vegas series was two steep for me dropped it.
Just bought the PD 11 suite. I am impressed with it. Just wished a had found it sooner.

On the Audio Director, I am using the surf as a background sound. The number of waves in a sound clip are way to many and high pitched. How do I decrease the number of waves in period of time and reduce the higher frequencies ?

Also;

How do I slow down the rate of speech in another sound clip without distorting it. Thanks in advance for a reply

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Aug 22, 2013 22:23

Hello Bobmck,

Welcome to the AudioDirector forum.

It's fortunate that you want to decrease the pitch and speed at the same time. Changing one without the other is more complex and can cause horrible distortion in the wrong software.

Just import your audio clip (surf) and go to Edit > Adjust Audio > Adjust Length
Uncheck Keep Pitch and the pitch will drop with the speed change
You can preview the result before you apply the effect
Once you're happy with it - Produce to make a new audio clip.

Using a ~31 second clip, I adjusted the length with a stretch ratio of -0.66. The produced file is ~48 seconds with lower pitch & no distortion (especially as it's background audio).

If it's still too high pitched, you could use the Equaliser under Apply Effect to take out some of the trebles. That will make more "ambient".

PIX


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jamestroy

Member Joined: Jul 25, 2013 09:30 Messages: 59 Offline

Sep 06, 2013 19:27

Just import your audio clip (surf) and go to Edit > Adjust Audio > Adjust Length
Uncheck Keep Pitch and the pitch will drop with the speed change

I followed that and it worked like a charm to me. Thanks!