Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

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Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostTue Aug 09, 2022 11:42 pm

Resolve Studio 17.4 - Increasing a voice track speed to just 105% results in a horribly metallic sounding voice (pitch maintained). I haven't had this happen in any app before... I've searched & found one post detailing the problem from 2019 - the only recommendation was to add a Distortion FX with Level set to zero. Tried it & every playback sounds random, most like a robot that has tried to eat a screwdriver lol.

Surely there is an actual solution for this & any help much apprec.
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostWed Aug 10, 2022 8:09 am

May be worth testing with version 18 as it includes an improvement to the quality of time stretched audio on the Fairlight page.
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostWed Aug 10, 2022 11:54 am

arconz wrote:Resolve Studio 17.4 - Increasing a voice track speed to just 105% results in a horribly metallic sounding voice (pitch maintained). I haven't had this happen in any app before... I've searched & found one post detailing the problem from 2019 - the only recommendation was to add a Distortion FX with Level set to zero. Tried it & every playback sounds random, most like a robot that has tried to eat a screwdriver lol.

Surely there is an actual solution for this & any help much apprec.

I never found the problem using 18. Try it. 200% of speed no problem with the sound.
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostWed Aug 10, 2022 2:34 pm

I've never gotten what I would consider "good" results when trying to maintain pitch.

Allowing the pitch to shift, as is natural for audio when you change speed, has always produced much better results for me.
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostThu Aug 11, 2022 10:10 pm

Jim Simon wrote:I've never gotten what I would consider "good" results when trying to maintain pitch.

Allowing the pitch to shift, as is natural for audio when you change speed, has always produced much better results for me.


This is not acceptable for editing software though... TVC directors worth their salt are not going to take an an editor seriously who can't re-time voice talent or musical scores without changing pitch.

Thanks for all responses & I will download 18.x once I'm finished the current project (I'm assuming it over-writes 17?). For now I downloaded Audacity which handled it.
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostFri Aug 12, 2022 3:12 pm

(18 will overwrite 17.)
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostThu Sep 15, 2022 4:12 pm

arconz wrote:
Jim Simon wrote:I've never gotten what I would consider "good" results when trying to maintain pitch.

Allowing the pitch to shift, as is natural for audio when you change speed, has always produced much better results for me.


This is not acceptable for editing software though... TVC directors worth their salt are not going to take an an editor seriously who can't re-time voice talent or musical scores without changing pitch.

Thanks for all responses & I will download 18.x once I'm finished the current project (I'm assuming it over-writes 17?). For now I downloaded Audacity which handled it.


What's the verdict? Did upgrading to 18 help?
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostFri May 05, 2023 10:50 am

I am here for the same reason. Speed change for the audio clip is not usable for speech with pitch correction (DVR 18.1.4 build 9), there is definitely a need to improve this feature. Now I am using VEGAS Pro for precise audio editing which can do audio much better for decades, but it is only Windows software.
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Re: Resolve audio speed change - awful quality

PostFri May 05, 2023 4:04 pm

It's one of the improvements in 18.5 beta but it still may not be good enough for your purposes. Maybe you should ask on the beta forum for others to test it for you if you aren't in a position to test it yourself?
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