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Zushio: May 8, 2008

nielsm posted:

Produce the audio in Audacity and use the Envelope tool to reduce volume in those sections.

I don't think there is a dynamic range compression audio filter for Avisynth, especially not one with sideband compression.

Nertz. I thought I would be that. But I held out hope. May have to redraw my process.

# ? Oct 8, 2018 16:19

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# ? May 22, 2024 08:37

Nidoking: Jan 27, 2009; I fought the lava, and the lava won.

Zushio posted:

Okay, I think I've got everything working, but I have a question. At one section of my video some gunfire drowns out voice audio. Same with some water later on. Is there a way to reduce the volume of the video track in just those sections?

You can also use the Amplify function in Avisynth to reduce the volume of an audio track by amplifying to a fractional factor (.5 for half volume, etc). To use the filter on just part of a track, you can use ApplyRange or Trim the parts you want to manipulate and then ++ them back together. So

code:

result = Trim(input, 0, startofspot - 1) ++ Amplify(Trim(input, startofspot, endofspot), .5) ++ Trim(input, endofspot + 1, 0)

# ? Oct 8, 2018 19:18

Zushio: May 8, 2008

Nidoking posted:

You can also use the Amplify function in Avisynth to reduce the volume of an audio track by amplifying to a fractional factor (.5 for half volume, etc). To use the filter on just part of a track, you can use ApplyRange or Trim the parts you want to manipulate and then ++ them back together. So
code:
result = Trim(input, 0, startofspot - 1) ++ Amplify(Trim(input, startofspot, endofspot), .5) ++ Trim(input, endofspot + 1, 0)

I don't think I'm understanding this. I've tried a bunch of things but I keep getting random jumps in the video when I put it in.
My code looks like this:

code:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\ffms2.dll")
import("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\FFMS2.avsi")
FFMpegSource2("C:\Users\masec\Desktop\Let's Play\Video\Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\Level 1\Level 1.mp4", vtrack=-1, atrack=-1, threads=1)
trim(0,285) ++ trim(301,6010) ++ trim(14934,20948) ++ fadeout(trim(20985,36731), 50)

Then I have another file for the commentary which looks like this:

code:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\ffms2.dll")
import("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth\plugins\FFMS2.avsi")
import("C:\Users\masec\Desktop\Let's Play\Video\Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\Level 1\First Pass Edit Level 1.avs")

gamerecording = import("C:\Users\masec\Desktop\Let's Play\Video\Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\Level 1\First Pass Edit Level 1.avs")
commentaryrecording = WavSource("C:\Users\masec\Desktop\Let's Play\Audio\Indy Level 1.wav")
return MixAudio(gamerecording, commentaryrecording, 0.5, 0.8)

I want to reduce the volumes of frames 7110 - 7250, as well as frames 8690 - 9080. What should my code look like here?

Zushio fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Oct 9, 2018

# ? Oct 9, 2018 02:29

Nidoking: Jan 27, 2009; I fought the lava, and the lava won.

First things first, you're importing your script twice. The second time, where you store it in a variable, is enough.

Second, just to make sure, this line:
trim(0,285) ++ trim(301,6010) ++ trim(14934,20948) ++ fadeout(trim(20985,36731), 50)
is already chopping out a bunch of frames. Is that what you intend to do?

Third, assuming that the frame numbers you've given me are correct based on the final version of the game video, you want to do this:

gamerecording = Trim(gamerecording, 0, 7109) ++ Amplify(Trim(gamerecording, 7110, 7250), .5) ++ Trim(gamerecording, 7251, 8689) ++ Amplify(Trim(gamerecording, 8690, 9080), .5) ++ Trim(gamerecording, 9081, 0)

That's if you insist on keeping it on one line. I find it easier to use an aggregator variable:

gamerevised = Trim(gamerecording, 0, 7109)
gamerevised = gamerevised ++ Amplify(Trim(gamerecording, 7110, 7250), .5)
gamerevised = gamerevised ++ Trim(gamerecording, 7251, 8689)
gamerevised = gamerevised ++ Amplify(Trim(gamerecording, 8690, 9080), .5)
gamerevised = gamerevised ++ Trim(gamerecording, 9081, 0)

It's really up to you which way you find makes the most sense.

# ? Oct 9, 2018 02:50

Zushio: May 8, 2008

Perfect! That worked a treat!
To answer your question, yeah those are my edits to get rid of death and quicksaves and whatnot.

Thank you so much for help, thanks to nielsm and discworld is all I read as well. Without you guys I would never have gotten this off the ground. Seeing the code in a live environment helps me understand what it's doing, so I'm basically set for the future. I hope I can continue to count on your support though if things go rocky.

# ? Oct 9, 2018 03:19

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

So running into an odd issue with Megui; trying to encode an MP4 down to a more reasonable size and it seems to just be stuck on the processing of Nero AAC. Checking the log just shows me

code:

--[Information] [10/9/2018 12:22:53 AM] Job command line: C:\Users\Computer\Desktop\LP\MeGUI\neroAacEnc.exe -ignorelength -q 0.5 -if - -of "C:\Users\Computer\Desktop\FF5pt2.m4a"
--[Information] [10/9/2018 12:22:54 AM] Process started
--[Information] [10/9/2018 12:22:54 AM] Standard output stream
--[Information] [10/9/2018 12:22:54 AM] Standard error stream

Now previously for a video this long, it might take this step 3 minutes at most but I've let it sit for about 10 minutes and just nothing has happened. I did update to the last version of FFMpegsource tonight and this is my video attempt at an encodue using that? Could that affect this?

Also this is the full script for reference, but it's not got anything too odd in it and nothing I haven't used before

code:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\ffms2-2.21-icl\x86\ffms2.dll")
import("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\ffms2-2.21-icl\x86\FFMS2.avsi")
FFMpegSource2("C:\Users\Computer\Videos\My Great Game - My Great Capture - 2018-10-07 21-51-51.mp4", vtrack=-1, atrack=-1, threads=1)
Trim(2132,42660)

And I did verify that the video opens in VDub with audio and video, and even in the Megui preview there was the video present.

# ? Oct 9, 2018 08:37

Nidoking: Jan 27, 2009; I fought the lava, and the lava won.

Is there no progress bar visible? If you're using one-click encode, you might want to try queuing the audio job alone and running that, so you can see whether it's actually processing or just taking a long time. I can't offer much direct help, unfortunately, but that might give you an idea of whether waiting longer will get the output you want.

The update could certainly be at fault. Does the new DLL live at the same path as the old one? If you still have the previous DLL, you could switch back to it in the script and compare performance.

There might also be confusion if MeGUI is using its internal Avisynth instead of the one you installed, since I recall that having updated fairly recently. I would expect it to throw an error if, for example, it's double-importing the FFMS2.avsi or including its own FFMS2.dll by default, but I haven't messed with that before.

# ? Oct 9, 2018 10:09

discworld is all I read: Apr 7, 2009; DAIJOUBU!! ... Daijoubu ?? ?

No progress bar; it just seems to sit at a 'Preprocessing' stage and never gets past it. I decided to let it go for half an hour last night and it never made any further progress. I did revert back to the previous install of FFmpeg and the video encoded fine, but it had the same desync issues I had previously, so I'd like to try to update that plugin. And I did just place the newer version of the plugin in the same place as the old, so the file paths should be the same.

And as far as I can tell within Megui, all the necessary updates seem to be in place and everything should be up to date. I don't know; I might try just recording a new MP4 and trying from that. Maybe something is just hosed up with the video I'm currently trying to work with.

edit: I even just tried an older MP4 I had sitting around, got rid of the index file so that it would make a new one with the newer plug-in and it didn't hang on the process and proceeded like normal. I guess something is just messed up with the newer video file I'm trying to work with.

discworld is all I read fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Oct 9, 2018

# ? Oct 9, 2018 16:52

Nidoking: Jan 27, 2009; I fought the lava, and the lava won.

Well, if VDub can handle it, as a worst case, you can export a lossless video with direct stream audio to AVI and import that. I've done it once or twice as a last resort when other methods have failed.

# ? Oct 9, 2018 22:40

Zushio: May 8, 2008

Okay so new AVISynth problem. I want to add an image to the end of my video for like 10 seconds. I've found this chunk of code

code:

ImageSource("C:\Users\masec\Desktop\Let's Play\Projects\Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\Level 4\Video\score.png")

But all that does not matter where I add it to my script is make a 10 second long video of the picture. At some point while I was mucking around I think I had it in the proper configuration, but it was giving me errors about how I couldn't add a clip with no audio to one with audio?

At some point I tried to define a function that took my image and audiodub with blankclip, but this keep telling me that the function I defined made no sense, so I obviously screwed up.

My video current ends at frame 140264 and I want to tack on an extra 250 frames that show my image. How I do?

Zushio fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Oct 11, 2018

# ? Oct 11, 2018 08:58

nielsm: Jun 1, 2009

Use ++ to combine clips.
At the end of your script:

code:

last ++ ImageSource(...)

# ? Oct 11, 2018 09:05

Zushio: May 8, 2008

That's where I get this error

quote:

Avisynth open failure:
Splice: one clip has audio and the other doesn't (not allowed) (file path.av, line 5)

This is where started mucking around with the blank clips and stuff.

I wrote this function, I think,

code:

function showscore(clip c, float factor)
{
score = ImageSource("C:\Users\masec\Desktop\Let's Play\Projects\Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\Level 4\Video\score.png")
blanky = blankclip()
return audiodub(score, blanky, 0.8, 0.8)
}

Which in my mind should combine my image with the audio from a blank clip to produce 10 seconds of my image with silent audio. However when I try to call the function in my script with ++showscore it tells me that it doesn't know what that means.

Zushio fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Oct 11, 2018

# ? Oct 11, 2018 09:12

kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Am I losing my mind or is Draft Render just gone from newer versions of Premiere?

# ? Oct 11, 2018 09:29

nielsm: Jun 1, 2009

code:

score = ImageSource(...)
score = AudioDub(score, Blankclip(score, audiorate=44100))
video ++ score

If you want to use the function, there's two things:

code:

# first, the function is written to take parameters, but you don't need those, so leave them out
function showscore()
{
score = ImageSource("C:\Users\masec\Desktop\Let's Play\Projects\Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\Level 4\Video\score.png")
blanky = blankclip(score, audiorate=44100)
return audiodub(score, blanky)
}

# second, when using it, you need to call it with an argument list (which can be empty)
video ++ showscore()

Giving a video clip input to BlankClip() makes it produce a clip with the same properties as the input, except those you specify different.

# ? Oct 11, 2018 09:29

Zushio: May 8, 2008

Okay now when I do it everything seems fine until I actually call score where it says

quote:

Error Splice: Video formats don't match

when I try to open my script in virtual dub. As far as I know my video files are the exact same resolution as my image files. Should I shift them over to another format from .png maybe? Should I maybe be using the overlay command instead? Or maybe just render the 10 second video of the image and then stitch it in?

Zushio fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Oct 11, 2018

# ? Oct 11, 2018 09:43

Admiral H. Curtiss: May 11, 2010; I think there are a bunch of people who can create trailing images. I know some who could do this as if they were just going out for a stroll.

Nah that means something like resolution or colorspace or whatever doesn't match, AviSynth doesn't like giving useful error messages for that stuff unfortunately. Try something like video ++ showscore().ConvertToYV12() maybe?

Is there still nothing better than AviSynth for scripting videos, by the way? What happened to VapourSynth? AviSynth cute and all but it has so many bad design decisions that make it extremely difficult to write sane code in...

# ? Oct 11, 2018 10:00

Zushio: May 8, 2008

Admiral H. Curtiss posted:

Is there still nothing better than AviSynth for scripting videos, by the way? What happened to VapourSynth? AviSynth cute and all but it has so many bad design decisions that make it extremely difficult to write sane code in...

I'm pretty much on the verge of giving up. I'll just include the score and store images in the post for the video. This little endeavor has taken me longer than anything else I've dealt with so far lmao.

To answer your question, I'm sure there is but I am poor and waiting for a sale. I just wanted to keep active and moving on the project and I'm anything but sane to start with.

# ? Oct 11, 2018 10:20

nielsm: Jun 1, 2009

VapourSynth still exists and works just fine, but development on the core is slow. As far as I know, it's mostly support tools that are lacking.

# ? Oct 11, 2018 10:45

Nidoking: Jan 27, 2009; I fought the lava, and the lava won.

Understanding formats in Avisynth is pretty vital. Fortunately, there's a (relatively) easy way to deal with the problem. Remove or comment out (put # in front of) the line with the splice that's failing, and in its place, put return firstclip (where firstclip is the clip on one side of the splice). Open the result in VirtualDub. Under the File menu, pick File Information... and write down or screenshot the information there. The main thing you'll need to pay attention to is the Decompressor (includes color space information), but it could be handy to have all of the video and audio information there in case there are any other mismatches. Then switch the line in the script to return secondclip (again, whatever was on the right side of the splice) and reload the script. Pull up the File Information again, and figure out what's different. You'll need to convert one of the two clips to match the other. The color conversion section on the Avisynth wiki should list the converter you need to use. Alternatively, you can just use ConvertToYV12 on both clips, which will happen at the end of the script if you're feeding it to MeGUI anyway. But if something like your frame size or audio rates don't match, the File Information will tell you that at a glance.

# ? Oct 12, 2018 00:09

Zushio: May 8, 2008

Why does MeGUI tell me that the TimeStretch function in my AVI Synth script doesn't exist and then refuse to open the file?

quote:
Script error:There is no function named 'timestretch'.
Location of errors.

AVI Synth itself passes it fine and it works though Virtual Dub no problem.

Edit: This has been fun, can Sony Vegas go on sale now? Found the answer back a few pages, should have checked sooner. My bad.

Zushio fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Oct 15, 2018

# ? Oct 15, 2018 04:24

NGDBSS: Dec 30, 2009

I wanted to show off Cosmic Star Heroine after finally playing all the way through it, but I don't know how to extract the portraits I'll want to do so. So far as I can tell, the game uses Unity and stores its assets in .resource or .assets formats - basically a fancy name for some kind of container. I know there are tools for cracking those container files open, because I've used one before. But what I have says it's an FSB extractor (for pulling out audio files) and likely wouldn't be useful for art assets. What should I use?

# ? Oct 16, 2018 04:43

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

NGDBSS posted:

I wanted to show off Cosmic Star Heroine after finally playing all the way through it, but I don't know how to extract the portraits I'll want to do so. So far as I can tell, the game uses Unity and stores its assets in .resource or .assets formats - basically a fancy name for some kind of container. I know there are tools for cracking those container files open, because I've used one before. But what I have says it's an FSB extractor (for pulling out audio files) and likely wouldn't be useful for art assets. What should I use?

Have you tried Unity Studio? Although it looks like it had a change of name to Asset Studio within the last year.

https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio

# ? Oct 16, 2018 10:59

NGDBSS: Dec 30, 2009

Geemer posted:

Have you tried Unity Studio? Although it looks like it had a change of name to Asset Studio within the last year.

https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio

It looks like I have to compile this? Would I use Microsoft Visual C++ or something else?

# ? Oct 16, 2018 18:43

nielsm: Jun 1, 2009

NGDBSS posted:

It looks like I have to compile this? Would I use Microsoft Visual C++ or something else?

Nah, just look under Releases: https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio/releases/tag/v0.8.0
There's also some more recent pre-release versions you can try as well.

# ? Oct 16, 2018 18:55

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

NGDBSS posted:

It looks like I have to compile this? Would I use Microsoft Visual C++ or something else?

nielsm posted:

Nah, just look under Releases: https://github.com/Perfare/AssetStudio/releases/
There's also some more recent pre-release versions you can try as well.

For what it's worth, I've used the x64v0.9.0 release to poke around in Night in the Woods without issue. Got me access to all the sprites, 3d models, scripts and textures.

# ? Oct 16, 2018 20:47

NGDBSS: Dec 30, 2009

Geemer posted:

For what it's worth, I've used the x64v0.9.0 release to poke around in Night in the Woods without issue. Got me access to all the sprites, 3d models, scripts and textures.

I tried out that one and at least I could crack open the files. I can get access to the sprite sheets, even if reassembling the faces will be time-consuming. But I don't know how to access the scripts themselves (principally for getting all the dialogue) in a meaningful way. The game seems to have them stored in TextAsset format, but if I open those in Notepad++ or with its hex editor plugin I just get gibberish. And there aren't many other targets to dig through. Between the sprites (~70 MB), the audio (~1.4 GB), and the TextAssets (~1 GB), that's almost all the game's assets at ~2.5 GB. Is there some way I can decode these, or failing that to search through all those files at once rather than one at a time?

# ? Oct 17, 2018 03:26

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

NGDBSS posted:

I tried out that one and at least I could crack open the files. I can get access to the sprite sheets, even if reassembling the faces will be time-consuming. But I don't know how to access the scripts themselves (principally for getting all the dialogue) in a meaningful way. The game seems to have them stored in TextAsset format, but if I open those in Notepad++ or with its hex editor plugin I just get gibberish. And there aren't many other targets to dig through. Between the sprites (~70 MB), the audio (~1.4 GB), and the TextAssets (~1 GB), that's almost all the game's assets at ~2.5 GB. Is there some way I can decode these, or failing that to search through all those files at once rather than one at a time?

Sorry man, no clue other than copy/pasting from the preview window in Unity Studio. You could try contacting the developer of US to see if they can help/set you up with a version that can export TextAsset to txt or something.

I only used it for looking around for stuff that didn't make the final cut, but was still left over. Such as a partial Italian translation in the case of Night in the Woods.

# ? Oct 17, 2018 09:32

NGDBSS: Dec 30, 2009

Geemer posted:

Sorry man, no clue other than copy/pasting from the preview window in Unity Studio. You could try contacting the developer of US to see if they can help/set you up with a version that can export TextAsset to txt or something.

I only used it for looking around for stuff that didn't make the final cut, but was still left over. Such as a partial Italian translation in the case of Night in the Woods.

Just to be clear, the issue isn't that I can't get it to produce TextAsset -> .txt output. That part is fine after I used Extract All. Rather, the issue is that the .txt output I have appears to be scrambled. I dunno if this is a file format issue, something that requires decryption, or yet another problem. (Edit: As a point of contrast I should note that the Shaders and Monoscripts are in cleartext.)

Edit: If nothing else I want to make sure I'm tackling the right problem. At least you've helped me to tackle the biggest hurdle of pulling out the sprites - thanks for that.

NGDBSS fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Oct 17, 2018

# ? Oct 17, 2018 13:39

ivantod: Mar 27, 2010; Mahalo, fuckers.

Zushio posted:

Edit: This has been fun, can Sony Vegas go on sale now? Found the answer back a few pages, should have checked sooner. My bad.

It's 75% off on Steam right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/528200/VEGAS_Pro_14_Edit_Steam_Edition/

# ? Oct 17, 2018 20:57

Carbon dioxide: Oct 9, 2012

ivantod posted:

It's 75% off on Steam right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/528200/VEGAS_Pro_14_Edit_Steam_Edition/

Just to clarify, this is Vegas 14. Vegas 16 is still at full price. I don't know what the difference is though, I use neither.

# ? Oct 17, 2018 21:08

ivantod: Mar 27, 2010; Mahalo, fuckers.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Just to clarify, this is Vegas 14. Vegas 16 is still at full price. I don't know what the difference is though, I use neither.

Oh, I see, thanks for the correction.

Sorry for giving misleading info!

# ? Oct 17, 2018 21:14

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

NGDBSS posted:

Just to be clear, the issue isn't that I can't get it to produce TextAsset -> .txt output. That part is fine after I used Extract All. Rather, the issue is that the .txt output I have appears to be scrambled. I dunno if this is a file format issue, something that requires decryption, or yet another problem. (Edit: As a point of contrast I should note that the Shaders and Monoscripts are in cleartext.)

Edit: If nothing else I want to make sure I'm tackling the right problem. At least you've helped me to tackle the biggest hurdle of pulling out the sprites - thanks for that.

I'm no expert, but I think that means encryption on the text files.

# ? Oct 18, 2018 01:13

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

NGDBSS posted:

Just to be clear, the issue isn't that I can't get it to produce TextAsset -> .txt output. That part is fine after I used Extract All. Rather, the issue is that the .txt output I have appears to be scrambled. I dunno if this is a file format issue, something that requires decryption, or yet another problem. (Edit: As a point of contrast I should note that the Shaders and Monoscripts are in cleartext.)

Edit: If nothing else I want to make sure I'm tackling the right problem. At least you've helped me to tackle the biggest hurdle of pulling out the sprites - thanks for that.

I just checked for myself because I never really bothered with actually exporting anything, but with NitW I just use File > Load Folder, load the game's main folder, then switch to the Asset List tab and look for the TextAsset type.
Usually I just read them in the preview pane, but I got readable txt files when I selected them all and went Export > Selected assets.

If the text is also garbled in the preview pane for you then I guess they have some sort of compression or encryption going on and I got no clue how to help you further.
I'm glad to hear you at least got the sprites you were initially after, though!

# ? Oct 18, 2018 08:58

Fates End: Oct 17, 2009

A notice that the newest Youtube update seems to have partly broken Polsy and Nospoiler, making recommended videos show up at the end. Thankfully, it seems to be acting strangely with unlisted videos; the only video that pops up in my videos, at least, is my only listed video, one totally unrelated to my LP. Still, be careful until it's fixed.

# ? Oct 28, 2018 23:24

Polsy: Mar 23, 2007

Yeah, it only seems to be other videos from the same channel so it could certainly be worse. Probably possible future thumbnail spoilers if you're watching a completed LP, though.

# ? Oct 29, 2018 22:25

Solumin: Jan 11, 2013

Hey friends, I'm having a weird issue with LPix. If this isn't the right place to ask about this, please point me in the right direction!

Here's the image via imgur:

Here it is on LPix:

I had to upload it directly through the website, because using RightLoad produced this error:

The image itself ("tonberry_king.png") doesn't show up in the Default folder on LPix:

Since it seems to be linking just fine, this isn't really holding me up. Figured I should report it anyway.

# ? Oct 30, 2018 03:29

TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
Hell yes I'm going to turn my avatar into an ad for it.; Fun Shoe

Didn't someone have an issue where the filename they chose was interacting weirdly with lpix somehow? Like, the exact same file but with a different name worked fine? Might be what you're hitting here. :shrug:

# ? Oct 30, 2018 03:53

vilkacis: Feb 16, 2011

Yeah, there's definitely something fucky going on with file names containing "err*" if you use rightload.

vilkacis posted:

Is lpix allergic to the name "Ferris"? Because I've attempted to upload three different images where that was part of the file name, and they all failed because of "access violation" while ~100 other images uploaded without issue. Removing that part of the file name also removed the problem!

vilkacis posted:

I experimented and it seems the problem is the string "erri" - err.png uploaded, as did ferr.png but it refused ferri.png and erri.png/erris.png.

baldurk posted:

Works for me uploading on the site itself and via sharex. Maybe a bug with the rightload response parsing but screw fixing that, the solution is don't use rightload.

(But of course you can still use rightload, you just have to rename the file to something it won't choke on.)

# ? Oct 30, 2018 04:05

Wayne: Oct 18, 2014; He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself

Hey guys, could use some input on an audio question. I've been doing some video for Thotimx's MOO1 LP, and bizarrely, exactly one take had a weird echo problem. All the videos I've already uploaded are fine; the next 2 I've done after that (for another series) are fine. I use the exact same workflow every time:

1) Use Audition 2 for Active Noise Reduction (helps deal with USB mic self-noise), feed into Virtual Cable, then record my audio in Audacity using that
2) Record game video and audio (but with the mic disabled) in OBS Studio
3) Extract audio from the video into an MP3
4) Edit, auto-duck, and merge that audio with my take in Audacity
5) Replace audio track with AVIDemux, trim video

Because I have the inputs set in Audacity, I'm not using the wrong input. I don't have any environmental audio (my heater/AC is super loud in this apartment so I have it off

). I have my mic (a USB condenser, ATR-2500) in front of my face on a boom stand, and as it's a cardioid if it was facing the wrong way or something my audio would be way worse than a little echo. I'm absolutely baffled ( :v:

) as to how this infected this one take, but I'm hoping one of you folks knows so I can keep it from happening again.

Here's the video with the bad audio, it's part 1 of a 2-parter (it would be my luck that the bad recording was a 2-hour one). Since I do have the original audio I can always re-record with post-commentary, but that would really suck since, again, 2 hours. If you guys have any advice to mitigate the damage I would definitely appreciate that and will give it a try and re-upload (my Internet is really fast here, so it was actually quicker to upload the whole thing than extract 10 minutes or so, heh). I've poked around with noise reduction and the basic tips but it hasn't helped.

# ? Nov 10, 2018 20:22

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# ? May 22, 2024 08:37

nielsm: Jun 1, 2009

Try listening with headphones, and only one ear. The echo effect is a delay or phase problem between left and right channel. You can probably fix it just by taking your commentary track, deleting either left or right channel, and duplicating the remaining channel to stereo again.

# ? Nov 10, 2018 21:36

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