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UPDATED! Sharing 5 minute voice over Audacity Project


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HI, All (AGAIN!) -

Since I can no longer update/edit my original post under this similar thread title, I thought I'd re-post here with the updated data files included in one place.

Here's my original post with the additional data files added where they belong.

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Since I have some time, and since I've had SO MUCH invaluable help here, I wanted to give something back.  I put together an Audacity project file template that has a "show starts in X minutes" voice over placed at every minute marker for 5 minutes. I've also uploaded a project file in which I added, what I believe to be, free and royalty free, background music so that you can see what I did and how I did it.

The voice over is from a project I was involved in when I was building my Home Theater and was a regular on the AVS Forums. A bunch of us got together and paid a professional to create a whole list of phrases, primarily for home theater. HOWEVER, there was enough generic stuff on there that I was able to create the every minute drop-ins.

Last year, I had one slightly less than half hour show that I ran ran every half hour and had some dead time in between. This year I've added some new sequences, so I have enough for two mostly different half hours shows.  I do not believe that I will need the entire 5 minutes between shows, but it didn't add any significant time to doing the project.

In my sample project, I tried to set up the music so that you can cut it down to the length you need. Keep in mind, that you want to start from the end (the one minute and show starting) and work back to the amount of time you need. I'm thinking I WILL probably use the entire 5 minutes before the first half hour show starts, then I'll cut it down to whatever length I need for in between shows.

I think you'll see that if you use the template, you can drop your own music choices in there pretty easy. I found Audacity VERY easy to use and learn. Feel free to respond with any questions.

Download the template and data file, unzip the data file then open and point the au file to the data and you  should be good to go. 

Voice only template:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zdoSTldZMIoiMzzmGHBq6itK-DWAKIY9/view?usp=sharing

Voice only zipped data:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nn1ozqtFBX_CJxO2wXWD3EsyJr2pNkI1/view?usp=sharing

Sample with background music:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U3pdO84A0pyYudAR_dbiZUqgMHcBct0R/view?usp=sharing

Sample with background music zipped data file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hzHgxB6uAoua2RdXBSho1vhMXDr6UV_z/view?usp=sharing

I had to give it a different name because they would ALL be named e08 so I called this "The Show Starts e08" so that you can know the difference. you should be able to do the same...unzip it to the data directory for the au file.

And as I side note,  I went back and dug up the info on voice over artist....

Greg O'Neil

Pretty impressive work...he was the voice of Fox News (in 2006 anyway, when we hired him to do this) and he also did the trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean.

Feel free to use them for your personal use as you wish and I hope you enjoy it.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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