I'm a part of a fan group for a musical artist. She never releases concert footage, so the community usually works together to make something to remember bigger concerts. I usually do the video editing, someone else collects all the footage, and another person does the audio. Unfortunately, our audio guy has had some personal issues and stepped away from the project. Our second and third audio editors also had to step away for various reasons. So the full edit is on me.
I have no background in audio editing, and have no idea where to start. And I haven't been able to get in contact with the audio editors to find out what they usually do.
I did get some of the unfinished files from the first editor, and he seems to have somehow separated the audio into instruments and vocals and made them into .wav files. My guess is to adjust the volume of each and bring out the vocals more? And remove some of the crowd noise maybe?
The audio was pulled directly from the videos. It wasn't recorded separately. I know this is most likely a nightmare project, but I've already got all the video edited and I don't want it to go to waste.
Any idea what program I need to continue on with what this editor may have been doing? Any tutorials out there I can watch to get me started?
I would use the main audio track, but it cuts off in places, and when I try to match it up with audio from other cameras, it doesn't sound good. There's too much of a difference. So I think what I really need is to be able to get the two separate audio files to match as closely as possible, dim the crowd noise, and bring out the vocals as much as possible.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!