Just out of curiosity, why don't you split the lbt 10 movie so it just includes the song, then convert it to mp3 and use an audio ripper to take the characters voices out of it?
A few reasons:
1) That doesn't work on every song. I tried it for Beyond the Mysterious Beyond in the past. That particular song has traces of the character's voices in the Left and Right channels for sound enhancement. As a result, I couldn't simply remove the Center channel and get good results. Also, I could only get it to work "reasonably well" with 5.1 audio tracks since I could remove the center track using a multichannel audio editor like Audition.
2) Any software that removes vocal frequencies will remove other elements of the sound. The .wav that you provided me is such low quality that I can't determine whether your program did so or not. Any software the removes simply the mono "Center" sounds has a chance to remove some instrumental frequencies OR leave some vocals behind (as in the case Beyond the Mysterious Beyond).
In short, what program did you use to do this? I haven't found any that work extremely well. Audition gave me the best results but it relied on multichannel audio (which thankfully LBT 10 has. Not every LBT film does, however).
3) I like to add my own touch to our music, which is MUCH more difficult when working with an original track. Then my only options are to add more layers: I can't edit, tweak, or remove existing layers when they're "hard coded" into a .wav together. In the case of If We Hold On Together, I basically re-arranged the entire song specifically for our Gang of Five rendition. I just like to have that option.
4) The program I used to edit multichannel audio was a free trial and has expired on me.
5) Simply copying the music seems a bit like a cop-out to me. Sure it's easier, but then I feel the GoF can take less credit for the song as a whole. I like to be proud of the fact that we did everything on our own in the past.
Except for the fact that the music you sent me is compressed severely, it sounds like it worked fairly well. I tried a similar technique on a couple of other songs but the results weren't *perfect* (the Left and Right channels both had slight echoing of the original voices)...but anyways, it looks like for this particular song it is possible to fully remove vocals.
Could you send me a fully-useable version of the music? a 192kb/s (or higher) mp3 will suffice I think. This .wav you sent me is very poor quality, 11kHz (Winamp says 353 kb/s).
I forgot to mention that the song is missing 2.7 seconds at the end but it's bearly noticable
Also, I would Really appreciate it if you could capture the Entire song (not cutting out the beginning nor ending). Thanks. I must disagree with the fact that it's barely noticeable; it chops right off. Don't force me to fade out the song because we don't have an ending!
Oh, and about the link?
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...E24146E3ADF27B1Fixed. B)
Like I say, this is far from perfect but we can use it if the singers want to. If the singers are okay with waiting for me to update it, I personally would like to do so.
