Audio help

[dwi69]

I wanted to change the names to Scott and Jennifer.. So, Every time chuck or charlies is said, I want it to say Scott.. And ever time peppermint patty is said, I want it to say Jennifer.. I have elements 12 and movie maker .. is this an easy thing to take on? Any links to help me out?




sorry for putting this in wrong section! move to audio please

[smrpix]

It's not hard to do mechanically. You bring the audio into an audio editor, individually cut out the words you don't want and replace them with new recordings of the words you want.

Now, matching the voice, the tone, the levels and the background music -- that's hard.

[Cornucopia]

Yeah, don't do it in something as cumbersome as WMM. Elements (I'm assuming here you mean Premiere elements?) should be ok, but you would do better by extracting the audio and using a dedicated audio editor/DAW. Audacity, Adobe Audition, Soundforge, ProTools, Nuendo, many many others.
Easier to use one that is clip-based so you can already have some stable of replacement clips at hand (you want a variety with different inflections, intonations & speeds). Then, cut out or mark to regions to be replaced (me, I would drop them into an adjacent empty track rather than delete - that way you can loop audition which clip works best). If you then had something like vocalign you could match them nearly seamlessly.

Again, as already mentioned, the hard part is the other stuff. Do you have the coinciding background music & FX? Because unless you truly lucked out by having gotten hold of only a dialogue track, you'd also have to drop in the proper timing and proportions of M&E as well.
Otherwise, you'd end up with something like this:
1 (orig): "I'm just talking to Chuck on the phone!"
to
2 (repl): "I'm just talking to<SCOTT>on the phone!"


ChuckScott

[dwi69]

Thanks for the input! I wasn't looking to make it perfect or match just right, just wanted to throw those names over the other names.. this might be a little over my head