Windows 7 - Recommendation Please - AVI Editor

Looking for an AVI video editor that *includes* editing the sound.

Recommendations please.


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There are free ones, but I doubt you would  be very happy with them.
In that, it may take a while to figure out how to get any
results at all from them.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-wmv-avi

You'd probably want the video editor section. Since some
of them are trialware, you can try them out.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-advanced

Paul

From what I have seen, video editors that also include any sound editing are
(almost by necessity) going to be more limited than having separate apps.

But I think this really depends on what you mean by being able to "edit the
sound".   I'd guess Sony Vegas might do it, but I tried it once, and it was
a bit overkill for me - and not so intuitive - for me, unlike using a
separate sound editor, like Sound Forge.

Thanks, but none of them specify sound editing.  I need to modify the
sound on an AVI file.



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Need to adjust the volume in a AVI file.  Whomever recorded it has it
way too loud compared to anything else on my system.



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I have used this program to do exactly that. It worked well.

Not freeware, so just treat it as an example of what is out there. It
would not surprise me if it had a freeware equivalent.

For example, there is a short discussion on using VirtualDub (free) to
lower the audio on an avi file here:

I Googled 'avi volume too loud' and got a bunch of hits, so I am sure
there are multiple solutions out there.

VirtualDub is a good free editor that can do simple operations on the sound like resample, interleave, change volume etc. it is portable and does not require install.

OK, I managed to edit an AVI here, with VirtualDub and Audacity.

For source material, I recorded an AVI with my WinTV card. Then used
that for a quick test.

VirtualDub allows the sound to be separated from the video.

Then, you take the sound into Audacity. You can use "amplify" in there,
then select "Normalize" and set it to -10dB. The program finds the loudest
section of the audio, sets that to -10dB, and everything else is scaled
down in proportion.

Once the audio is processed, you select "Export" from the Audacity file
menu, and export as an audio file.

Then, back in VirtualDub, you ask VirtualDub to "Audio : Audio From Other File"
and point VirtualDub at the new sound track. When VirtualDub is used to
save the new video ("Save as AVI"), now you have a processed audio track.

This is not a NLE as such, as you are processing a whole clip in one
shot, extracting audio and adding it back in, in a couple runs.

A weakness with AVI, is the file format itself. There is a standard for
AVI files larger than 2GB, but I have had a few problems with it. As long
as your clips are short ones, then you might not run into any of those
problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualDub

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)

Have fun,
Paul

Oh, ok.  That's pretty minimal "editing", and some video editors can do
that, but I do not work much with AVI files, so I cannot comment on that, in
particular.  But some have already mentioned VirtualDub, which might be one
way to go, and perhaps the easiest.

But in the event you cannot find a video editor you like that does that
directly on AVI files....:

The other way to go is to demultiplex (separate out) the audio and video
tracks, run the audio track through a basic audio app to reduce or normalize
the audio, and remultiplex it back in.  it is not as difficult as it sounds
(once you find the right apps), and it has one advantage in that it does not
alter the video in any way (since its simply replacing the audio track in
the composite file).  I have done this a bit with MP4 and MPEG files, but
have not played around with AVI files all that much.

THANKS!

Exactly what I am looking for.


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