Mac Sound Editors

[BoobieCootie 0]

Just wondering what editors do you use for sound.

QuickTime Pro (v5) seems to do the job quiet well and so does Panic's Audion (trail copy). And there's Amadeus and Cacophony.

They all seem to have one advantage over another, but I can't afford all the shareware fees.

Know any others?

[murrays 0]

I use QT Pro for lots of things, including audio, and I've used Cacophony. I found Cacophony easy to use to do the easy edits and fades that I've wanted to do. No experience with the other programs.
Do you, or anybody else, know how to use these audio programs to rid voice-over narration of sibilants. I do that Dan Rather whistle on "s" and it drives me nuts when I'm trying to do voiceovers. Is there a way to filter those out? I've tried normalizing, and most of the filters in Cacophony but it would be easy to miss a setting that woulld allow me to do that.

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Murray

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

[BoobieCootie 0]

I think these guys might do the job in cleaning up the hisses:
SoundStudio
SoundSoap

But damn! They're expensive

[murrays 0]

Those ones _were_ a bit expensive...so I took a look at Amadeus and think that it does the trick. I used the spectrum analyzer to visually spot the frequencies that corresponded with the "hisses" and then used the "Suppress frequencies" filter. Much more acceptable audio. Thanks for listing Amadeus...Cacophony doesn't seem to be able to do the same thing with as much flexibility. Cacophony has a high pass filter ..but it makes the audio seem very muffled and there doesn't appear to be a way to tailor the filter characteristics.

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Murray

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey