Hi, I listened to Paul Frields 2008 fudcon talk fron an ogg I downloaded [1] from "Fedora TV" Miro channel [2]. The audio is really hard to listen because it is recorded far from the speaker (my conclusion) so I can hear Paul barely. To hear him well I need to turn on the volume really high but then my eardrums almost exploded when I heard first applause because that is much, much, much lauder!
To fix that is trivial and here is how I did it.
1. I opened the ogg in audacity 2. selected the whole track 3. under Effect I choose "Leveller" and applied to on the "Hardest" setting. 4. listened to the output 5. again applied "Leveller" with hardest setting 6. exported the audio.
Please listen and compare my version [3] with one on Miro site.
if you can connect me with people uploading audio I can give them tips like this on how to enhance audio for better quality.
Cheers, Valent.
[1] http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/files/fudconf10paulfrields.ogg [2] https://miroguide.com/channels/6891 [3] http://valent.fedorapeople.org/fudconf10paulfrields-4.ogg
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Hi, I listened to Paul Frields 2008 fudcon talk fron an ogg I downloaded [1] from "Fedora TV" Miro channel [2]. The audio is really hard to listen because it is recorded far from the speaker (my conclusion) so I can hear Paul barely. To hear him well I need to turn on the volume really high but then my eardrums almost exploded when I heard first applause because that is much, much, much lauder!
To fix that is trivial and here is how I did it.
- I opened the ogg in audacity
- selected the whole track
- under Effect I choose "Leveller" and applied to on the "Hardest" setting.
- listened to the output
- again applied "Leveller" with hardest setting
- exported the audio.
Please listen and compare my version [3] with one on Miro site.
Brilliant.
JonRob: do we have a mechanism for swapping out videos when someone makes beneficial edits like this?
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Brilliant.
+ 1 - Great work :)
This is exactly the kind of thing we can do to improve the situation you referenced in your other e-mail: create content and work together to a) make it as good as possible, and b) make it as easy to access as possible.
JonRob: do we have a mechanism for swapping out videos when someone makes beneficial edits like this?
Heh, well I've just edited the feed so that it points to Valent's version for the link and enclosure, while keeping the guid the same so that it doesn't get re-downloaded by people who've already got it.
Hope this works, let me know if there are any problems with it.
Best,
Jon
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I listened to Paul Frields 2008 fudcon talk fron an ogg I downloaded [1] from "Fedora TV" Miro channel [2]. The audio is really hard to listen because it is recorded far from the speaker (my conclusion) so I can hear Paul barely. To hear him well I need to turn on the volume really high but then my eardrums almost exploded when I heard first applause because that is much, much, much lauder!
To fix that is trivial and here is how I did it.
- I opened the ogg in audacity
- selected the whole track
- under Effect I choose "Leveller" and applied to on the "Hardest" setting.
- listened to the output
- again applied "Leveller" with hardest setting
- exported the audio.
Please listen and compare my version [3] with one on Miro site.
if you can connect me with people uploading audio I can give them tips like this on how to enhance audio for better quality.
Cheers, Valent.
[1] http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/files/fudconf10paulfrields.ogg [2] https://miroguide.com/channels/6891 [3] http://valent.fedorapeople.org/fudconf10paulfrields-4.ogg
Valent,
Cool!
I didn't take the time to do this because I wanted to get it out quickly, but I am glad the improvements were made. I have put up some others on my fedorapeople[1] page. Maybe I should finish the ones for seneca college and others.
Cheers,
Clint
1 - http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/files/fudcon-olpc-final.ogg
Valent,
Cool!
I didn't take the time to do this because I wanted to get it out quickly, but I am glad the improvements were made. I have put up some others on my fedorapeople[1] page. Maybe I should finish the ones for seneca college and others.
Cheers,
Clint
1 - http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/files/fudcon-olpc-final.ogg
I should also mention that I am in the process of purchasing a new recording device. I've tested it with Fedora and it records at least with Audacity and ices (streaming client) so I suspect it'll work with others. Its called the Zoom H4 and has much better quality recording, plus it can record from up to 3 different sources and mixes them for you.
Cheers,
Clint
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic@gmail.com wrote:
To fix that is trivial and here is how I did it. Please listen and compare my version [3] with one on Miro site. if you can connect me with people uploading audio I can give them tips like this on how to enhance audio for better quality.
Cheers, Valent.
You just validated what we are trying to do here by having everything openly licensed and publicly available.
If we can ever get hosting space, I'd really like to see people collaborating to edit and process material so we can scale a process around interest and experience. I want a process where we don't expect individuals at events who can record video and audio to be able to do all of their own editting or processing. They just have to record raw material that's good enough to work with. Then they can upload it, so our community experts in editing polish it up.
But we can't really build that sort of process without a hosting commitment of some sort. We'll get there, but not for F10. Maybe F11. Let's concentrate for F10 on showing that as a content channel is worthwhile and then for F11 we can figure out how to build a collaborative virtual production studio around it.
-jef
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