Sound Studio - Easy to use sound editing program

Dec 30, '02 01:00:57AM

Contributed by: robg

Sound Studio iconThe macosxhints Rating:
8 of 10
[0 to 10 lights; 10 = perfect!]

This week's Pick of the Week was chosen due to its fine work on a weekend iMovie project. I had a few video clips where the audio was nearly inaudible, and was looking for a tool to help fix the problem. A brief search on the web led me to Sound Studio from Felt Tip Software. Using a two-step process (open the movies in QuickTime and export the audio track as AIFF, then open in Sound Studio), I was easily able to up the volume on the quiet sections and then re-import them into iMovie.

But adding an amplification effect is only one of Sound Studio's tricks. You can also apply filters to create a customized fade in (or out), normalize the volume levels, add delays, echos, and reverbs, and even reverse the direction on a clip. You can do all of this to the entire sound, or just a selected portion thereof. There are also many additional features, most of which are beyond my simplistic audio needs.

Sound Studio has a very generous 14 day trial which is unlike most trial periods that I've seen. Instead of starting a clock that ticks down each day after the first launch, Sound Studio only decreases the counter for each unique day you launch the program (but you can launch it as many times as you like on that day).

This may not be a pro audio level program (I wouldn't know, given my lack of expertise in the area), but it seems more than sufficient for what I would ever need to do with sound. And given the re-shooting time it saved me this weekend, I'll be sending in my registration fee this week.

[As an aside, thanks for all the nice comments regarding my time off last week, they are greatly appreciated ... I hope you all had a nice holiday!]

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