Here is my favorite line from my favorite episode of “The Prisoner” (Hammer Into Anvil)  all messed up courtesy of Corel VideoStudio Pro X3, Adobe Audition and XMedia Recode. Note the picture is fuzzy due to the source file being the 360p mp4 from YouTube and then being trans-coded again in the video editor and again in XMedia Recode to a 400 by 300 pixel Flash file. In spite of all that lot, the picture is still watchable. I did this mainly just to practice with editing. I can assure you, I have a lot to learn! You might as well laugh now.

Snow On Magnolia Tree Branches

More Snow Covered Branches

My Deck And Bamboo Leaves

My Rain Gauge

Heavy Wet Snow On Bamboo

This was after about an hour between 1:30 PM and 2:30 PM.  Be sure to click on the caption or picture for a larger image.

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VST Capture Setup (click picture for high resolution view)

Here is my recording of New Year’s 2012. Recording time was from 11:53 PM, 2011 to about 12:21 AM, 2012. This was made using the same equipment as in “Springtime Ambience 2010 (updated)” and “Ambience Recording.”  I used a free VST plugin called “Broadcast” which seems to work very well at preventing digital clipping. However, there is quite a bit of white noise due to the inexpensive electret condenser microphones,  and the large amount of gain in the VST processing. I can assure you there is no digital clipping distortion on the recording.

Waveform for sound at approximately -24:44 on the counter (click picture for high resolution view)

This view of the initial attack of a loud explosion shows some flattening of the waveform. The sound doesn’t seem to have  audible clipping distortion, but I think it is actually analog clipping occurring in the microphone preamplifier. This kind of distortion is generally considered less objectionable. I think when listening carefully, some of this effect can be heard as a slightly higher pitched “crack” at the beginning of some of the explosions. As I said before there is no digital distortion and the peak level throughout is no higher than -.37 db.

I almost forgot… Happy New Year!