how to replace an audio track to a music video and getting it to synch

[alarmsman]

Hi,
Can anyone please advise. I have a collection of VHS tapes containing music which I have recently converted to MP2 on my computer. The picture is fine but the audio track is somewhat 'hissy' due to age etc. I am using Cyberlink Power Director 6 and wish to replace the same audio track with that from a CD and save the whole project with a clean soundtrack. I have managed to seperate the audio from the video on the timeline and have added the new MP3. what I'm now stuck on is how I line up the new audio track with the original video performance. I gues it means lining up the 2 wave forms but they are so tiny you can't see them to do this properly. Anyone out there done this before? Any help gladly appreciated.

Alan T

[dphirschler]

1) Rip the hissy audio out of your video

You might have to convert your mp2 to wav. You can use DbPowerAmp to convert it.

2) Rip the clean audio from your CD
3) Load both into a multitrack editor such as Audacity or Cool Edit
4) Visually line them up, then tweak them by ear
5) Mixdown using the boundaries of the hissy track, make sure hiss track is muted.
6) Normalize as you see fit (70% works for me).
7) For DVD, you will have to resample CD audio to 48 KHz.
8) Save new audio.


Darryl