X-Doug_Graham
Imported Account
Jul 11, 2000, 3:03 PM
Post #2 of 2
(403 views)
Shortcut
|
|
Re: I need help with sound
|
Can't Post
|
|
: I am an amateur fimmaker but I have not found a way to put a musical score into my film after the film is in VHS format. Please tell me how I can do this.
Matt,
VHS tapes have between one and four audio tracks, depending on the type of deck you have. The simplest VHS machines have a single mono audio track. Slightly better units have two tracks, and are advertised as "stereo VHS". The only way you can add music to these is by mixing it in while you are recording, or by making a copy of the tape and mixing in the audio while doing so. You can do this by connecting the deck's audio output to an audio mixer. Add connections to your music playback device. Run the output of the mixer to your recording VCR.
Some decks are advertised as "HiFi VHS". These decks have two additional audio tracks, in addition to the standard ones. The audio is recorded on the same physical part of the tape as the video signal, in a process called "depth multiplexing". If your dialog is recorded to these tracks, you can then dub music and sound effects to the linear tracks without losing the existing audio and video. In order to hear all the audio on playback, your deck must have a menu setting to "mix" audio from the hi fi and the linear tracks. High end consumer decks like the Sony SLV-R1000 can do this.
Regards,
Doug Graham
|
