Forums: Editing

I am using Audacity to edit an audio file. Within this file, I would like to select a portion and add an effect. I want the effect to begin no earlier and no later than what I want. Similar to the ending. Right now,I am selecting a portion of the file based on an educated guess. Then I listen to the whole selection, and adjust the beginning and ending of the selection accordingly. The problem is, doing it this way takes a long time, because I have to listen to the whole selection. I thought I could just jump to...

Dede Allen, the film editor whose seminal work on Robert Rossen's "The Hustler" in 1961 and especially on Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" in 1967 brought a startling new approach to imagery, sound and pace in American movies, died Saturday. She was 86.

I have been working as an independent professional rewriter and editor for many years and have recently began upgrading my resources and skills to handle science and medical technical papers, etc. I have heard some good things about Stylewriter, but I have also heard it takes a long time to get used to and the settings are difficult to manage. I have also seen online advertisements for a product called White Smoke, that seems much easier to use, but I have no idea of how capable it actually is. I know Free Republic has a great number of writers and...

I know there are some FReepers out there who know how to capture "stills" or freeze frame from digital video footage. I need to put together a series of photos for a 25 year anniversary "retrospective" musical performance. The goal is to try to capture some "action shots" of these musical performances from 25 yr. history of video footage and work them up into a Powerpoint presentation which we can project onto the auditorium theater wall for the upcoming 25th anniversary shows (3 shows in one weekend). Do I need to have any special software to do this video capture...

I'm having problems with dropped frames and slow RAID speeds editing Panasonic P2 HD material in Final Cut Pro. The computer setup is: PowerMac G4 Dual 867 (mirrored drive doors), OS 10.4.8 w/software RAID 0 setting, FCP 5.1.2, 2gb memory, dual generic flat panel displays; Seritek PCI-X Four-port eSATA card, Granite Digital four-bay SATA RAID with 400 gb Western Digital WD4000KD hard drives, GD six foot eSATA cables. The source material is Panasonic P2 720pn/24 frame HD. The problems I'm having are specifically related to rendered transitions in the FPC timeline. Straight cuts, multiple audio channels, high quality sequence settings:...

I was Wondering About This. And Hugh Hewitt provided the answer...(h/t no2liberals). I commented over at GCP(#436) last week about the extraordinarily large amounts of search-engine hits that this website was getting, all directed to a specific article that I had posted about ABC's upcoming Path to 9-11. Interesting thing happened today. Apparently some national organiztion is researching blogger opinion on next week’s TV show “Path to 9/11″ (which is very critical of Clinton, which makes me suspect that it is the donks that are out trying to do research to see if 9/11 is going to poll well for...

I’ve spent much of the past week trying to get a letter to the editor published in The New York Times in response to the recent Tom Friedman rant (subscription required) against GM (see “Hyperbole and Defamation at The New York Times,” June 1). I failed. This is my story. For those of you who haven’t read it already, Mr. Friedman spent 800 words on the Times op/ed page to accuse GM of supporting terrorists, buying votes in Congress and being a corporate “crack dealer” that posed a serious threat to America’s future. He suggested the nation would be better...

WASHINGTON - A former White House official and one-time oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join Exxon Mobil Corp., the oil company said Tuesday. The White House announced over the weekend that Philip Cooney, chief of staff of its Council on Environmental Quality, had resigned, calling it a long-planned departure. He had been head of the climate program at the American Petroleum Institute, the trade group for large oil companies. Cooney will join Exxon Mobile in the fall, company spokesman Russ Roberts told The Associated Press in a telephone interview...