Hi. Earlier tonight, I listened to Jonathan Mosen's excellent demo of the new Audio Hijack 3. Jonathan mentioned that it was possible to record just VoiceOver and the microphone without recording system audio. Well I managed to accomplish this, so I thought I'd write up how I did it, in case other people may want to do this. My goal was to have three output files. I wanted an isolated VoiceOver track, an isolated microphone track, and a mix of the two. I probably would only ever need the mix, but if the levels were really uneven, I could fix it later with the isolated tracks. Also, I wanted to ensure that while I was recording, I didn't hear the mic echoing back.
In order to record VoiceOver, you need two application source blocks. One for VoiceOver, and one for com.apple.speech. If you just do VoiceOver, all you get are the VO sound effects. In order to select those apps, when you're in the pop over for the source block, and you're focussed on the choose application popup button, route your mouse there, and do an option click. This shows you all the running applications that are normally hidden. Note that when you set up those two source blocks, you need to make sure the "fill gaps with silence" checkbox is checked in the advanced section of the pop over. If you don't do this, the audio from VO and the audio from your mic will quickly go out of sync. I think the best way to explain the session will be to first describe how it works, followed by the block layout with co-ordinates. First we have our two VO source blocks. These are arranged vertically. They are both connected to our output device block. This ensures that we can hear VoiceOver once the session is running. This output block, goes to a record block. You might change the output file name created by this block to something like VoiceOver. A few rows down from those blocks, we have our microphone source block. This connects to a second record block. You might have the files created by this block called something like Microphone. Between these two sections of blocks, we have a third record block. Our other two record blocks connect here. Call the files created by this block something like Mixed. So here is the actual block layout for the session. x1 y1: application source block: com.apple.speech x2 y1: device output block: probably your headphones x3 y1: record block, VoiceOver x1 y2: application source block: VoiceOver x4 y2: record block, Mixed x1 y4: device source block: microphone x2 y4: record block, Microphone If you lay out the blocks like that, all the connections should happen properly. Well hopefully that made at least some sort of sense. If it didn't, it's probably my fault, as I'm writing this at 4 in the morning. Which now that I think about it, probably wasn't one of my brightest ideas. Darcy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
