VocALign Project for Pro Tools
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1. b Adjust the leader audio before the start of the Guide audio to be roughly equivalent with the Dub leader being somewhat longer See below 0 00 11 16 VocALign Important The Dub does not have to start at the time of the Guide In other words its timecode position is not used The Guide s timecode is important and so is the amount of background captured before the Guide and the Dub 13 The user can re capture the Guide or Dub individually at any time and replace any previous settings Altering the Selected Region We will next reduce the length of the Dub being processed without having to return to Pro Tools You may wish to do this to align only the beginning part of the dub and leave the following part unaligned 2 First move the cursor to the end of the Dub filtered as shown below k 3 Next hold down the mouse button and a dotted line should appear While holding down the mouse button drag the line to the left and release it at the point shown in the next picture This does not need to be exactly the same point 4 The above picture indicates that the selected Dub region for processing is now much shorter than the Guide selected region 5 Click on Align and the following result should appear The Selected Dub audio has been aligned to the corresponding section of the Guide 6 Pressing the Preview button will audition the Aligned audio 7 Select Audio 4 as the destination2. VocALign Project 3 Audio Suite For the Digidesign Pro Tools System Compatible with Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows systems User s Manual Manual Version 3 2 VOCALIGN VocALign_Project_3 AudioSuite _Manual_32 doc 1 Synchro Arts Limited 1995 2009 VocALign is a registered trademark of Synchro Arts Limited Pro Tools and Digidesign are registered trademarks of Digidesign a Division of Avid Technology Inc All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders Contact Information Synchro Arts Limited 13 Links Road Epsom Surrey KT17 3PP UK Tel 44 1372 811934 UK Tel 01372 811934 Fax 44 1372 817976 UK Fax 01372 817976 Web www SynchroArts com E mail info SynchroArts com Online Support at www synchroArts com support support SynchroArts com VocALign_Project_3 AudioSuite_Manual_32 doc 2 A End User License Agreement PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LEGAL AGREEMENT CAREFULLY PRIOR TO USING THE VOCALIGN SOFTWARE PROVIDED WITH THIS AGREEMENT USE OF THE SOFTWARE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE PROMPTLY RETURN THE UNUSED SOFTWARE MANUALS AND ACCOMPANYING MATERIALS TO THE LOCATION FROM WHICH THEY WERE OBTAINED FOR A REFUND 1 License The application demonstration and other software and audio accompanying this License whether on disc in memory or on any other media the Software and the relat
3. It is advised that you always select this option 1 2 3 Normal Operation In Pro Tools open a session in which there is Guide original audio contained in a single Pro Tools Region on one track and a Dub replacement or new audio in a second track Ensure that at least a third track is available and visible in Pro Tools to receive the processed Highlight the desired portion of the Guide audio region for processing This can be any given region or multiple regions Your selection can begin and end in the middle of a region HOT TIP Try to capture up to around 0 25 to 0 5 seconds of background or leader audio at the beginning of your Guide audio selection This will assist the process to set the noise floor levels and generally allow better alignment at the start of the signal Note In the current version of VocALign Project 3 the selected audio must be shorter than 120 seconds and longer than 0 25 seconds Select VocALign Project from the AudioSuite menu in Pro Tools Click on the Guide button or panel and then click the Capture button Using the Selector Tool in Pro Tools highlight the desired portion of the Replacement audio region or Dub for processing Again this can be any given region or multiple regions Your selection can begin and end in the middle of a region HOT TIP Try to capture very slightly more background audio before the Dub signal starts than you did for the Guid
4. 3 only takes a few minutes but for getting the best results we strongly recommend that you first try VocALign Project 3 on the VocALign Tutorial PT Session The VocALign Tutorial PT session can be found in the Tutorial folder on the install CD if you have one or can be downloaded from www synchroarts com downloads Next open the VocALign Tutorial PT session in Pro Tools Alternatively have your own suitable session loaded The operation of VocALign Project 3 is simple you select and capture your Guide and Dub audio align the Dub to the timing of the Guide and send the Aligned audio back to Pro Tools The VocALign Project 3 Window Make sure this is selected Selects Destination for Aligned Audio Yoo Align Project Selects Guide a eean ae ee for Capture Aligns Audio Selects Dub for Capture i ccess to Help Settings Selector and Displa i Returns Aligned Audio BS REESEN to Destination Track in Editor Select the VocALign Project Plug in from the AudioSuite menu in Pro Tools Make sure use in playlist is selected Select the Guide audio in Pro Tools e g Steve Guide 2 in the VocALign Tutorial PT session 4 In VocALign Project click the Guide button or panel and then press Capture The Guide audio energy profile will appear in the Guide Panel Select the Dub audio in your audio editor Twit Dub in the Example Session In VocALign Project select the Dub panel and pre
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6. able for download along with the name of the plug in the manufacturer the type of authorization Demo Not For Resale or License the date the authorization was deposited and the date when the authorization will no longer be available for download from the server e Before an authorization transfer can take place synchronize your iLok Smart Key with iLok com f Once you have synchronized your iLok select the authorization s you wish to transfer to your iLok If you have multiple iLoks connected to your computer it is important to select the correct iLok as the destination to which you want an authorization to be transferred g On iLok com click Download Licenses to begin the process When the transfer finishes you will be asked to confirm completion indicating that the transfer was successful How to authorize your VocALign Project 3 software with your iLok Key If you followed the above procedure correctly and the iLok Key with the plug in authorization is inserted in the computer running the plug in the plug in should run in an authorized mode by simply launching the host software and then the VocALign Project 3 plug in 2 How to use a License card to install your VocALign Project 3 iLok License a Launch VocALign Project 3 as described above and follow the on screen instructions until you are prompted to insert the License Card into the iLok as in the illustration below Authorization to run this softwar
7. al signal is sometimes the best way to achieve a balance between synchronized and natural sounding speech Special Operations Latching To align just the start of the Dub with the Guide and leave the rest of the Dub unprocessed capture only 0 25 to 1 0 second of the Guide and capture the Dub as normal Reverb tails To stop the end of a Dub from being stretched to wrongly fit to a noisy or reverberant Guide stop the captured end of the Guide 0 25 to 1 0 second before the Guide signal of interest ends and capture the Dub as normal Destination Track set to none Normally the VocALign Project 3 user is advised to always select a destination track in the plug in However if the destination track is set to none and aligned audio is processed it will be returned to Pro Tools in sync with the original guide audio and on a track where the cursor is present Once aware of this fact the VocALign Project 3 user can make use of it to speed up the operations involved in using VocALign Project 3 Make sure use in playlist is selected Ensure that the Dub audio is close to the Guide audio in the Pro Tools timeline Select the Guide audio and send it as normal to VocALign Project 3 Select the Dub audio and send it to VocALign Project 3 making sure the Dub audio remains highlighted Once aligned press Process with destination track set to none The aligned audio will be se
8. ce it may try to expand or compress the neighbouring speech This means for example that if gaps in the new and replacement dialogue appear in different places or are of very different durations after modifying the gap region VocALign might also have to expand or compress the replacement speech signal near the gap to best align the modulations This may lead to unwanted effects In this case the user should break the signal into sections that can be individually treated Sync up only the beginning of a line To get only the beginning of a new line of dialogue to sync up with the Guide use the latching technique described earlier This means only selecting perhaps a second at the start of the guide that VocALign will try to sync the dub start to and the entire replacement line for the dub Minimize the amount of VocALign s Time Compression and Expansion lf VocALign is making too many timing modifications and creating unnatural sounding speech try using the Low Flexibility setting To align only the start and end of the replacement audio Use a Linear Time Compression Expansion utility such as TimeMod available with VocALign Pro and ToolBelt from Synchro Arts to get the new dialogue to the same length Then use VocALign to fine tune it Use combinations of original and VocALigned output By using the Process feature of VocALign in conjunction with the Copy functions of Pro Tools a mixture of VocALign output and the origin
9. ce it must ignore the music and effects in the Guide Track and match only to the dialogue Lastly the translation may demand that the two audio signals are vastly incompatible and result could never be totally satisfactory In this case the best result sometimes comes from making the two audio signals start together and if possible end together VocALign or the use of linear time compression or expansion products such as Synchro Arts TimeMod can often help in this case too Suggested Operations Advice Dialogue Editors should be very familiar with the use of VocALign on dialogue replacement in the same language before attempting to use it for foreign dialogue replacement The following tips are suggestions and not rules so the user should not only try these techniques but also experiment further Every line of dialogue is likely to need individual attention When to use VocALign If the Guide Track dialogue is in sync with the picture and the replacement foreign dialogue has been translated and recorded to achieve good lip sync then VocALign should be able to improve the quality of lip sync Break the dialogue into appropriate length sections The user must remember that VocALign is deliberately restricted to stretching a part of a signal by a factor of 2 0 100 expansion and compressing it by a factor of 1 2 50 compression If VocALign is trying to expand or compress a gap in the speech and it has used up its allowan
10. ct Acknowledgements Special thanks to the Digidesign staff for their continued support Thanks also to Steve Cooke for providing all voices in the demonstration audio VocALign is developed and sold under license from Wordfit Limited C Introduction to VocALign What is VocALign VocALign is a process that lets audio editors make the timing of one audio signal match another automatically How does VocALign work VocALign works by applying varying amounts of time stretching or compression to one signal called the dub to make its energy peaks and troughs align in time with a guide signal This alignment is fast and of the highest quality What can VocALign do for me lf you are a dialogue editor needing to lip sync vocals or a music editor needing to tighten up lead or backing vocals instrumental tracks or a number of other alignment tasks then VocALign is for you Consider the following examples Working without VocALign A dubbing session for film post production or music production begins with a guide track Then the voice over artist singer or musician will dub this as closely as possible Because humans are not machines they will not be able to get exactly in time with the guide This is generally not acceptable for lip syncing nor for double tracking of vocals or instruments Often the next step is to loop record the more tricky sections individually but this can break up the natural flow of the li
11. d in accordance with English law and the English courts shall have jurisdiction to determine any dispute Table of Contents A END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT c ccccccssseeeeeeecseeeeeseeseeeseeeeeees 3 B IMPORTANT NET Eeer ele eg 5 C INTRODUCTION TO VOCALIGN eee ceeceseeeceeeeeeeceeseeeeeeseeseeeeeeeeeees 6 D APPEIC ATION LEE 7 E SOPTWARE INS TALLATION eebe ee 8 F DEMONSTRATION MODE vioista iadaaa aaa Ee dee aa 8 G SOFTWARE AUTHORIZATION cccecccececeseeeseeeseeeeceeseeeeeesenseeeseesenees 9 H QUICK START RECH IR 13 1 OPERATIONAL eege ee 15 Screen ahd Ee Tu Lg EE 15 Normal ODE I atlO NN ee EE 17 Altering the Selected egoiont vegeedegieoegedugdegeteEe DEES dE 20 Moving the Dub Display for Inspection cceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 21 Processing Signals with Different Lengths cccseeeseeeeeeees 21 ALIGNING Multiple TAK CS iiistescsccicendinaceucecievens dotevenvecntivenuctevaeeacerebandeves 23 Foreign Dialogue SynchroniZation cccccccsseeseeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeneees 24 Special OD EE 26 B Important Notes This program is compatible with Pro Tools 5 0 or higher software a Digidesign product VocALign Project 3 Audio Suite for the Digidesign Pro Tools system processes audio with sample rates up to 192 kHz In this manual VocALign Project 3 Audio Suite for the Digidesign Pro Tools system will be referred to as VocALign Project 3 or VocALign Proje
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13. e In VocALign Project click on the Dub button or panel and click the Capture button VocALign CT BR EW Normal Flexibility 6 Examine the non processed alignment shown in the energy profiles 7 The user can optionally perform several operations on the audio waveform itself before processing He can extend or shorten the selected regions by positioning the cursor arrow at either end of the audio selections This indicates that by holding down the mouse button the active region boundary can be moved right or left by moving the mouse left or right This is an important operation for selecting the right amount of audio at the start and end of the signals 8 In addition the user can scroll the display with the scroll bars to examine the captured waveforms 9 The Scale and buttons can be used to zoom in or out of the waveform to see more or less detail in the display windows at one time 10 Choose an appropriate setting e g if the Dub is very long compared to the Guide try Maximum Compression setting number 1 11 Click on Align and examine the results visually The preview button allows you to hear the Aligned signal on its own Crie a 12 If the alignment is satisfactory select the destination track and press Process e If the alignment does not look satisfactory there are two main options a Select another Setting which will clear the aligned trace press Align again and examine the results
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16. encountered followed by Previewing has been aborted Solution This is actually a bug in Pro Tools 5 0 and 5 0 1 and does not affect the processed audio It was been fixed in Pro Tools 5 1 Further help and advice can be found on the Synchro Arts website at http www SynchroArts com support Q
17. es to this and in this last Example we will use this feature to align three different vocal tracks 1 Return to the Pro Tools VocALign Tutorial PT session and locate the three regions shown below and highlight the audio within the region BG Guide7 in track Audio 1 as shown Capture this as the Guide BG Yoices EE You should also play these three tracks together to hear how they are aligned in this session Next carry out the following steps carefully 2 In Pro Tools highlight and capture the BG Voice2 region as shown below as the Dub 3 Align this using Normal Flexibility examine the sync and if it looks correct set the destination track to Audio 4 and click Process The edited region should appear in Pro Tools track Audio 4 4 Next highlight and capture the BG Voice3 region as shown below as the Dub 5 Change the VocALign Project 3 Setting to Low Flexibility setting number 2 This is to minimize the amount of editing on this voice 6 Next click Align and examine the alignment Set the destination track to Audio 5 and click Process The edited region should appear in Pro Tools track Audio 5 7 In Pro Tools mute tracks Audio 2 and Audio 3 and play tracks Audio 1 Audio 4 and Audio 5 together They should be tightly synchronized Foreign Dialogue Synchronization Summary This section discusses the problems that arise in foreign language dialo
18. ew Button Click to audition the new Aligned audio VocALign Settings Control the way that VocALign aligns the audio a b c d e Maximum Compression Tries to match the Guide by time compressing the aligned audio as much as possible Low Flexibility Alignment is not very flexible sound quality may be best Normal Flexibility Default Standard VocALign settings works best in most cases High Flexibility Alignment is as flexible as possible Maximum Expansion Tries to match the Guide by time expanding the aligned audio as much as possible Capture Button Click to transfer the selected audio from Pro Tools to the Guide or Dub panels Process Button Creates the Aligned audio and places it in the destination track in sync with the Guide audio Guide Energy A profile of the energy of the Guide signal in time 10 Dub Energy A profile of the energy of the Dub signal in time 11 Aligned Audio Trace A representation of the energy of the new Aligned signal 12 Scaling and scrolling controls Click to adjust how VocALign displays the Guide and Dub energy signals Zoom in and out with the and buttons Scroll left and right with the lt and gt buttons 13 Destination Track Selects into which Pro Tools track the Aligned audio will be placed when Process is pressed It is advised that you always select a destination track See Special Operations later in this chapter 14 Use In Playlist button
19. gue replacement dubbing and how and when VocALign can be used to assist this process Overview The quality of lip synch that can be achieved in Foreign Dialogue Replacement often called Dubbing Doublage etc depends on many factors including e The quality of the translation e The accuracy of the timing of the new dialogue recording e The ability of the editor to modify the new dialogue VocALign will attempt to align one set of audio modulations to another no matter what the audio signals are Therefore it can be used to align the modulations of recorded dialogue in one language to recorded dialogue in another language Thus when there is an audio Guide Track that is in good synch with the lip movements in the picture VocALign can generally be used to improve the accuracy of the lip sync of the replacement foreign dialogue Sometimes unfortunately the Guide Track will not be in close sync with the picture This can occur if the Guide Track is itself already badly dubbed or in a different language from the original location recording In this case even if VocALign matches the new audio modulations to the Guide they will be out of sync just as the Guide is An experienced editor must align the audio by ear and eye in this case and VocALign is not likely to be of much assistance Also the Guide track used for dubbing can sometimes contain music and effects This makes the job for VocALign harder but not impossible sin
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21. ming of a live vocal performance 7 Changing the voice or even sex of a singer or actor s performance 8 Replacing the vocals in a music video shoot with a production track achieving perfect lip sync 9 Foreign Language Dubbing a CA E Software Installation If you have not already done so you can download VocALign Project 3 from www synchroarts com and install it by following the instruction on the website F Demonstration Mode When you first download and install VocALign Project 3 it will run in a fully functional demonstration mode for the number of days shown in the start up screen VocALign Project VocALign Project 3 0 1995 2009 Synchro Arts Ltd Welcome to the trial edition of YocALign Project You have been granted a license to use this fully functional product for evaluation To purchase YocA amp Lign Project select the Buy button and you will be guided through the process This trial will expire in 14 days L Buy C Quit If you have not already purchased a license clicking the Buy button will take you to the Synchro Arts on line store Clicking the Try button will run the program H G Software Authorization VocALign Project 3 uses the iLok system for authorization and your license will reside on a USB smart Key shown below If you already have a license installed go to Chapter H iLok Key Once your iLok key contains a VocALign Project license
22. ne Lastly the editor will use a digital audio editor to cut and nudge individual sections into time with the guide The above process can take many hours for both the artist and the editor Above all the process sometimes creates a result that is inferior in quality Working with VocALign The above process becomes a simple matter of getting the artist to concentrate on creating a great performance and not worry about the fact that it may drift in and out of exact sync with a previous performance VocALign can then be used to adjust the timing by automatically applying the required amount of varying time stretching and compression to allow the dub to take on the same timing as the guide This saves studio time saves artists time and improves the quality of your results Most importantly you allow your artists to produce their best performances free from the rigidity normally associated with dubbing D Applications VocALign was originally designed for Lip Syncing replacement dialogue for Film and Video post production but it has been adapted to work successfully in all of the following applications 1 Syncing replacement dialogue in Post Production for Film and Video 2 Double tracking vocal parts or instrumental parts 3 Tightening backing singers with one another or with the lead vocal 4 Tightening backing instrumental tracks 5 Syncing a drum machine audio output to a real drummer or vice versa 6 Giving a dubbed vocal the ti
23. nt to the track where the Dub was taken from RON A O1 In this way dub audio can be aligned by VocALign Project 3 and updated in Pro Tools There is then no need for an additional track to receive the aligned audio O J Trouble Shooting Some commonly occurring problems are listed here Problem VocALign Project does not appear in the AudioSuite menu Solution Mac users Check that the file VocALign Audiosuite has been copied to the Plug Ins folder within the DAE folder in your System Folder Windows users Check that the files VocALign dpm and VocALign dpm rsr have been copied to the Plug Ins folder within the DAE folder Problem The aligned audio appears in an incorrect destination track Solution Make sure you have selected a destination track before pressing Process If none is the selected destination track the aligned audio will appear in the currently selected track in sync with the Guide If you have renamed Pro Tools tracks whilst the plug in window is open the drop down destination track list will not reflect those changes until the plug in window is closed and opened again Problem No aligned audio appears in the audio editor Solution Make sure you have selected use in playlist in the VocALign Project window Problem While previewing audio from VocALign Project the following messages are displayed in Pro Tools DAE error 7456 was
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25. nto VocALign by clicking on the Dub button and clicking on Capture 6 Steve Guide The user could chose to stop before the last part of the audio but this example will show that when the highlighted Guide region stops if there is more Dub selected to process it will simply be added on after the alignment activity required by the Guide is completed The following should appear Before processing the user should try to determine which modulations in the Guide match with modulation in the Dub Next click on the Align button and the resulting aligned orange trace over the Guide should appear as shown below In this case the Dub audio filter waveform is aligned up to the point where the Guide selected waveform shown in blue stops and then the rest of the Dub filter waveform is joined on but without any modification The user should ensure that the Setting shows Normal Flexibility and that the track Audio 3 is selected as the destination track and then click Process VocALign should generate the Aligned audio and then spot it into Pro Tools Play the result in Pro Tools and note the amount of time compression required to align these two signals and also note how the end of the Aligned Dub is unedited Aligning Multiple Takes One further useful feature of VocALign Project 3 is that once a Guide or Dub is captured you may recapture one of the signals without affecting the other There are many advantag
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27. ss Capture The Dub audio energy profile will appear in the Dub Panel 7 Make sure Normal Flexibility appears in the Settings Window If it doesn t press Settings Selector 3 8 Press Align to generate an Aligned Dub trace that lets you visually check alignment 9 Select a destination track for the Aligned audio e g select Audio 3 for the VocALign Tutorial PT Session ae EC DO 10 Press Process The Aligned audio will be sent to the selected destination track in your audio editor 11 In Pro Tools play the Guide and Aligned audio regions with the Dub track muted The Aligned audio will have its timing corrected to match the Guide Note it is recommended that you DO NOT Save the Pro Tools VocALign Tutorial PT session when exiting Pro Tools so it can be used again Consult the information in Chapter J Troubleshooting if the audio you have aligned does not appear to be aligned properly Chapter I details how to get the most out of VocALign Project 3 I Operational Guide Screen and Controls St CN use in playlist nen e 12 Ze cT D a 3 gt CN Normal Flexibility Description of Controls Guide Button and Panel Click on this to select Guide for input from Pro Tools 1 2 3 4 5 6 W 8 9 Align Button Click this to generate the Aligned audio trace Dub Button and Panel Click on this to select Dub for input from Pro Tools VocALign Button Access to the Manual Previ
28. track and click Process 8 In Pro Tools play the resulting track Audio 4 with Audio 1 Moving the Dub Display for Inspection Before or after Alignment takes place if mouse pointer is placed over the Dub energy display and the mouse button clicked an Open Hand Icon will appear By holding down the mouse button the Hand Icon will appear closed and the Dub audio or Filtered output display can be dragged back or forth to check the alignment visually This has no effect on processing Processing Signals with Different Lengths In general it is common for either the Guide or Dub to be part of a much longer audio regions than the other is In most cases the Guide region is longer being part of a long transfer while the Dub is a shorter section In the second example in the Demo Session however we have a Dub that is much longer than the Guide and even contains extra audio at the end of the region that is not in the Guide 1 Open the VocALign Tutorial PT session Make sure that the second set of audio regions is visible 2 The Guide Steve Guide2 and Dub Twit Dub should be played together to hear how the Dub is not only much slower and longer than the Guide but it has extra audio at the end 3 Highlight the Guide audio as shown below and Capture it in VocALign by clicking on the Guide button and clicking on Capture Tw it Dub 4 Next highlight the entire Dub as shown below and capture it i
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