I have this FFT reading on the to do list…there are A LOT of things ahead of that for me, tho…like wood burning stove and firewood, cuz woodburning season is just around the corner. Suffice to say I know very little about FFT smp size…so far, all I can relate this stuff to is kind of a quilted patchwork to represent audio in the digital realm…I see it as kind of an image sprite with variable positional controls…even if I do read up, I got no idea how much math would sink in and how much that knowledge might aid me. It certainly isn’t going to get all my editing I must finish to get done!
Marc, I guess you’re speaking of the artefacts I linked to? I don’t really think about where they are coming from…I just know it happens. I was previously making harmonic selections and then cut>paste multiple times from the same selection to another layer…the multiple paste operations increased the artefacts…as I explained in that thread. Part of the reason I posted was to make other newbies aware.
Nowadays, I might make a harmonics selection and paste said selection to a dummy layer for a visual guide and then use the brush selection tool to select>cut>paste because I get no artefacts with the brush tool. Is it more work? Well, no…because cleaning out the harmonics selection artefacts can take a very, very long time and using brush tool, I’ll just be done.
Sometimes I’ll purposefully use harmonic selection and clean the artefacts. It’s not so easy to make harmonic selections beyond the area you want to select because once the harmonic selection tool falls off the Master Rank, you can’t “back up” and must re-select (afaiaa). Then, going back through using erase to remove/ reduce the artefacts. I don’t like using this method because it brings unknowns into my editing. There has been no official comment about the harmonic selection artifacts from . If it is a known issue, Robin hasn’t said anything about it that I have seen.
I will say, I’ve never even tried the Magic Wand tool in SL…maybe once. What is it selecting? I suppose you can listen back to the selection. I’ll give it a try…what is it based on? Amplitude?
Operation Manual says:
“Select an area by automatically detecting shape contours where clicked.”
what are shape contours?
Google sez:
" 1. : an outline especially of a curving or irregular figure : shape. the sleek contours of the car. The map shows the contour of the coastline…"
oh my, clear as mud
I need to just crack on…SL11 has been the best tool for my film audio that I have ever tried…I’ll just keep using it 