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Topic support guide

Cambridge International AS & A Level

Information Technology

9626 For examination from 2017

Topic 10 Sound and video editing

Sub-topic 10a Sound editing – Task 4

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Audio editing task guide

These tasks could be attempted using almost any audio editing application. There are also a number of video editing applications with the facilities to edit audio to the extent required for the tasks. The software used in the screenshots shown below was Audacity®. Audacity was chosen because it is a free open source digital audio editor and recording application and is available for different operating systems such as Windows, OS X and Linux varieties. Audacity can record audio from multiple sources and can be used for post-processing of all types of audio. The tools needed for these tasks are simple and available in all audio editing applications. In most cases the menu items and tool buttons use the same text and the same symbols. These tasks are designed to be undertaken as a learning process. Learners should be encouraged to use the tasks to explore the menu items and tools available in the software. Often there is more than one way to satisfy the requirements of the task. At first, the exercises should be about exploring a variety of options and not about determining the most efficient methods. It is recommended therefore, that learners begin the tasks without access to this tutorial material.

Task 4

(1) Open the Wake_Up .wav file.

Drag and drop the Wake_Up.wav file.

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(2) Change this sound file to be monophonic.

We now have a single (monophonic) track of the ‘Wake Up’ clip but judging by the waveform it will be a bit too quiet.

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(3) Now amplify the track to the maximum value possible without clipping.

Since we don’t want the sound to be distorted we must not tick the ‘Allow clipping’ box (highlighted in red). To change the Amplification (volume of the sound) we can use the slider (highlighted in blue). If we try to amplify the sound too much (causing clipping) the ‘OK’ button will fade out (highlighted in yellow). So adjust the slider until the ‘OK’ button is available again (highlighted in purple).

Here is the amplified clip.

Notice that the amplification is near the limit (highlighted in red).

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(4) Add reverberation to the track. (Choose a preset of a large room or equivalent if available.)

Export the file in .mp3 format at 128 kbps.

The reverberation controls are complex but we only need to load a preset setting.

(5) Overdub the Wake Up sound file with the Timer3 file to start when the alarm starts ringing.

Repeat the Wake Up clip for the length of the alarm ringing. Export the file in .mp3 format and

save as Timer4.mp3.

‘Overdub on’ is the default setting but it is best practice to check.

It is not really possible to determine exactly what the settings did but you can hear the difference.

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We need to load the Timer3.mp3 file.

Drag and drop the Timer3.mp3 file.

Here you can see the whole project is 15 seconds

long and the alarm ringing starts at 10 seconds.

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How to start when the alarm ringing begins:

How to repeat the ‘Wake Up’ clip for the length of the alarm ringing:

This step is not strictly necessary but we can join the individual ‘Wake Up’ clips to make a single clip.

We need to move the ‘Wake Up’ clip

to start at 10 seconds.

Use the ‘Time Shift’ tool to

move the clip.

A simple way to repeat the

clip is to just copy and paste.

Select the individual

clips

Then select ‘Edit’, ‘Clip

Boundaries’ and click

‘Join’.

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Export the file in .mp3 format as Timer4.

The repeated ‘Wake Up’ sounds

are now one clip.


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