Canopus advc110 for linux
I have a DVD recorder with HDD (), purchased about 5 years ago, that I can use for capturing from both cameras when I find a tape that has been hiding in a corner somewhere. The tapes are the same size, but the recordings are in different formats. I have both a Video-8 and a Digital-8 camera, which I recently decided to check to see if they still had some life left. The 3.x version broke a lot of things.I can totally appreciate the desire to capture the old tapes into a digital format. Pretty impressive product, and not much money.īTW, if you ever decide to use it, get the older version 2.x. Despite that, PluralEyes still got everything right. I've used PluralEyes before, but this was particularly impressive because the cameras that were a long ways from the speakers had really weak audio, mixed with lots of ambient outdoor noise, including wind. Most of these un-matched segments were from the reception where I sometimes only used one camera. All the timelines were synced, with the stuff that didn't have any match pushed off to one side where I could deal with it manually. I put everything on five timelines in my NLE, pushed the button in PluralEyes, and came back ten minutes later.
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I just shot an outdoor wedding two weeks ago with four cameras, plus a Zoom recorder connected to the P.A.'s soundboard. If I understand what you are asking for, I use PluralEyes. The iZotope products definitely do NOT have this feature. I'm not sure whether you are talking about not seeing the track alignment feature in RX3/RX4, or in some other program or plugin. This is where you use another device to record audio then automatically line it up to the camcorder audio, so you can use it for a replacement. This gives the engineers a lot more "stuff" to work with when they design their cancellation algorithms.ītw, I don't see a feature for track alignment. One reason the Polycom conference phone works so well (they pioneered the echo cancellation) is that they have many microphones, pointed in all directions, in a configuration and distance that is precisely known, and the recording instrument (i.e., the phone) is not moving. The problem with "dereverb" is that you only have two microphones in many camcorders (unless you are dealing with 5.1), spaced at an unknown distance apart, often moving around the room as the camera moves. However, there is a reason it doesn't do too well. Thanks for the links!ĭe-reverb is really tough, and is one of the weakest portions of RX3 (where it was first introduced) and, I assume, the just-released RX4. And with stereo, you can separate a voice from background quite easily, basically, what's loudest in both channels? Keep that and remove the rest. I used the wrong term, it's called exciterĪnd yes, that looks like a great program, however things like de-reverb can be done for free, for example it's a demo script in the Matlab DSP toolbox, and the technology has been used in conference phones for a long time, then cell phones. Also, if you want to post an MP3 of the audio track, I'd be happy to take a shot at denoising it with iZotope RX3.
I just scanned the features, and while I didn't see noise reduction mentioned, it sounds like there are some denoising tools available. I just saw the post about Audacity, and while I haven't used it, I have heard it is a really good tool. But, just to be clear, it will not be able to add "brightness" or fidelity to your audio it will only reduce the hiss.
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It is as close to magic as any software I have ever used. I do not know of any shareware or freeware tool that can even begin to touch what you can do with this. I use iZotope RX3 Advanced, which is a $1,200 tool. Unfortunately, the tools that do a good job on the audio are not cheap. However, there are many plugins that can do a great job on the hiss, without requiring a noise gate, something which I definitely dislike because it makes the audio seem to pop in and out.
The linear audio track is very low fidelity, and you can't create the lost high frequencies, so you are out of luck there. I'd need to see more in order to know which one might work best. The horizontal noise dropouts can be eliminated using any one of several plugins. The noise at the bottom can be masked, or cropped (I favor masking, in order to not have to re-size the video). I really don't see the point in doing it.ĭo you still have the videotape, and can you re-capture it? A lot of the video problems in the text might be corrected by using a time base corrector (TBC) in the capture chain. Wow, I think some people just enjoy making unhelpful comments.