notes on audio video

audio

No video available, but this is a cleaned up version of the same soundtrack.

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Notes to self: for video from the phone, which is badged .mp4 but is in fact .3gp, copy/move it to the PC, rename it so the extension is correct, then:

• Use mp4cam2avi to extract the video signal (make sure to select video only)
  
• Use mob3gpcon to extract/converet the audio signal (make sure to select audio only)
  
• Use Windows Movie Maker to edit the video & audio back together, save as "for PC use" which producess a .wmv file.
  

Not really an ideal process. Can't use "Super" (can't even test it) without a higher resolution screen. "G-Spot" very handy tool. Wavepad at least adequate for simple audio cleanup (high & low band pass filters, must find out what that actually means. Don't use the noise filter for violin music! Audacity doesn't like Windows-encoded files (eg the .avi that comes out of mob3gpcon. Need to explore more with WMM (eg, can the audio be mixed back into the AV track?)

Update: Finally got around to testing "Super" and it is indeed. The distributors describe it as just a GUI connecting a whole bunch of other programs - that seems unduly modest. It handles the 3gp conversion, both audio & video, re-encodes as required, provides a host of handy things you might want to do, isn't sensitive to file names & pretty much seems like the only tool you'd need for coding/decoding. All I need is a bigger screen & better resolution, juut like it says on the box.

Might look for a better freeware editor than WMM, I think.