COMPLETE[PLAYS]One Act Play Collection 019 - thw

jennlea · Post by **jennlea** » January 9th, 2024, 4:21 pm

MrsHand wrote: ↑January 9th, 2024, 1:33 pm I can edit the two open plays, if an editor is still needed.

I’d be thrilled to have you edit Five Birds in a Cage! I’m still trying to catch up on projects after a short absence so I haven’t had a chance to start editing this yet. Nelly’s part should be uploaded in a day or so.

jennlea · Post by **jennlea** » January 11th, 2024, 9:25 am

Here is Nelly in Five Birds:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/fivebirdsinacage_nelly_jennings.mp3
8:42

Post by **ToddHW** » January 11th, 2024, 9:53 am

Thank you.

Todd

MrsHand · Post by **MrsHand** » January 13th, 2024, 10:01 am

I can PL Nelly as I edit, if that works?

jennlea · Post by **jennlea** » January 13th, 2024, 10:40 am

MrsHand wrote: ↑January 13th, 2024, 10:01 am I can PL Nelly as I edit, if that works?

That would be wonderful! Thank you

MrsHand · Post by **MrsHand** » January 15th, 2024, 8:59 am

I am having a severe brain cramp! For the life of me, I can't remember how to make Audacity combine the "all" parts so that it doesn't sound like 3-5 people mumbling. Can anyone provide any direction? It's the last bit I need to put everything together.

Post by **ToddHW** » January 15th, 2024, 9:31 am

I start off with each reader in a separate track all stacked up over each other for the phrases that are to be overlaid. Make sure that all the tracks are dragged above the label track if you have one - Audacity will overlay such tracks automatically on playback or in mp3 generation.

Unsynchronize the tracks (you had to do that to stack them anyway). Then mute all but two of them, and align those two - adjusting gaps between words so as to have most words start and end at the same time in those two. (It seldom matters if you have to cut out some parts in the middle of some words - so long as word starts and ends align from track to track.)

Then take one of those two as the "master" files, mute the other, unmute another of the reader files and get it to align with the master - and make sure you do NOT change the master file any more, just the new reader file! Rinse and repeat until all the reader files have been separately aligned with the master.

Unmute everybody and listen. It won't be perfect and you might have to mute some tracks and make little adjustments.

When done, synchronize tracks again so other editing you do won't unalign the track region you just worked on here. (Which means you have to do all the above starting from the beginning of the file and working toward the end, and never go back to edit anything that requires unsynchronizing again without checking everything else you have already done all over again. This also really means you have to do all this stacking as the last editing thing you do and hope there are no Final PL comments that affect this.)

Thanks, Todd

Post by **TriciaG** » February 3rd, 2024, 5:58 pm

There are some wayward files I found in a different folder. I'm not sure if they're still needed?

https://librivox.org/uploads/xx-nonproject/athanksgivingdream_goblins_preston.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/xx-nonproject/athanksgivingdream_pilgrimmaids_preston.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/xx-nonproject/athanksgivingdream_pumpkins_preston.mp3

All uploaded December 9.

norahnelson · Post by **norahnelson** » February 3rd, 2024, 6:06 pm

TriciaG wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2024, 5:58 pm There are some wayward files I found in a different folder. I'm not sure if they're still needed?

https://librivox.org/uploads/xx-nonproject/athanksgivingdream_goblins_preston.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/xx-nonproject/athanksgivingdream_pilgrimmaids_preston.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/xx-nonproject/athanksgivingdream_pumpkins_preston.mp3

All uploaded December 9.

I'm not sure either, I sent them to Kristin (MrsHand) who offered to edit the remaining plays.

Post by **TriciaG** » February 3rd, 2024, 6:12 pm

Thanks! Also this one: https://librivox.org/uploads/xx-nonproject/oneactplays019_09_various_128kb_1.mp3

Post by **ToddHW** » February 4th, 2024, 9:40 am

Thank you for these files, Tricia!

Kristin: Remember if you use any of these new-found files in one of the plays that they are NOT the file versions that have been PL'd and which are linked to in the MW! They may be older versions of files or they might be new better corrected versions misdirected to the wrong place.

(Note also that since you have to have the fully assembled play go through a final PL'd before it is complete and ready for the cataloging, we should catch any newly introduced errors from these files...!)

Thanks, Todd

Post by **Rapunzelina** » February 24th, 2024, 8:19 am

After some pm arrangement I have finished up Thanksgiving Dream
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/oneactplays019_09_various_128kb.mp3
at 9:20

Norah said she'd pl and let me know if she'd like any changes in the way I combined the various voices

Post by **ToddHW** » February 24th, 2024, 10:25 am

Thank you.

Todd

norahnelson · Post by **norahnelson** » February 24th, 2024, 12:07 pm

Wow Rapunzelina, that was amazing, I love the way you edited the voices together!

Post by **Rapunzelina** » February 24th, 2024, 1:34 pm

norahnelson wrote: ↑February 24th, 2024, 12:07 pm Wow Rapunzelina, that was amazing, I love the way you edited the voices together!
PL OK!!

Glad to hear this!

And glad to move the collection along.

If I can help with the remaining play, let me know. I'll be available again next week.