Static or Snow Video Clips

[Dj Petro]

I am making a video and I need some (static/snow) clip to be inserted into the video for effect.
Does anyone know where I can find clips or how to make my own clips with the sound as well. Thanks in advance.

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[housepig]

depending on your software, you can make your own.

what editing software are you using? if it has filters, it may have a "noise" or "grain" filter that you can apply over a plain black background.

for the audio, see if your audio editing software can generate tones - if it can, it should have a white noise generator. if not, Audacity is a good, freeware cross-platform editor which can generate the static audio.

or go low tech - do a video capture from a source that's turned to an unused tv channel.

[Dj Petro]

I am using Premiere Pro... I will see if I can use noise and get a good result.
I have Audition as well, I am not sure if you can generate tones as I haven't really had a chance to use it.
I thought about the last idea you have, but the problem is that the devices I use have that blue screen thing when there is an used station or signal. If I could turn that off, then I could just capture some.
If you have any other suggestions, I am surely up for them as this is for a company skit video we do every year for a conference my company goes to. Thanks

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[housepig]

I have Audition as well, I am not sure if you can generate tones as I haven't really had a chance to use it. _

unless Adobe stripped out the "Generate" section when they bought that product, it should - it certainly did when it was Cool Edit Pro....

[Dj Petro]

Well I opened up After Effects and made an animated noise clips with an effects that animated it for you. Worked perfectly. Then opened audition and made a empty wav and generated white noise. Save the audio and brought them back into premiere.... booyah.
Thanks for the help... I would have not known about generating white noise to get that effect.

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[housepig]

no problem - glad it worked out for you.

and like I said, unless Adobe has done something to seriously hork the program up, Audition / CoolEdit is a great audio editor.

is Audition a stereo audio editor, or will it do multitrack editing as well?

[Dj Petro]

Yes, it will do multi-track editing. It will also allow you to do 5.1 audio, which is cool. I watched a demo where they were adjusting the sounds to come from and pan across the different speakers in the 5.1 set up.

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[Dj Petro]

hey, if you haven't seen this features video it shows the features in the Audition. It touches on the ones that we have talked about and more.

http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/auditionoverview_qt.html

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