Lost Video Island

[KajaM]

Does anyone know which settings work best for the audio pitch shift effect on Sony Vegas? (So that the song won't be blocked on YT but without the song sounding TOO silly? )
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[Belle MacFarlane]

I tend to just shift it one whatever-the-unit-of-measurement-is lower and that does the trick. We all know WMG are strict about Taylor Swift songs, but this vid stayed up just fine when shifted one down.
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[KajaM]

Cool
I'll try it your way then. Thank you for your help and reply!
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[Brooke]

How exactly do you pitch shift?

[KajaM]

I'm using a German version of Sony Vegas, so I'm not sure if the effects are called exactly the same in the English version as well, but here's what you have to do:

You drag the song you want to use (and where you want to shift the pitch so that the song won't be blocked on YT) onto the audio track.

You then right-click on the song and pick the "audioevent FX" (that's what it's called in the German version; it may have a slightly different name in the English?).

Then you pick "Pitch Shift".

You'll have then two scales to play arpound with. The first one will basically make the song and the voices sound "higher" or "lower", i.e. when you drag the scale to the right it'll get higher, more like a female voice, and to the left will make it sound darker, more like a male voice.

I haven't figured out exactly what the second scale does, to be honest.

Apparently though when you play around with those two scales a bit, the song will sound different and YT may not be able to recognize it as the original song anymore, meaning that the song probably won't be blocked.

I've seen a lot of people do this with songs of artists like Taylor Swift or Nickelback who otherwise are ALWAYS blocked YT.
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[Aislynn]

The more recent versions of Movie Studio may have pitch shifting abilities but I know that my 6.0 version doesn't. So if you don't find that as one of your options, Brooke, that's probably why.

[tjmack1986]

I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0, and it has the pitch shift effect. I've had to use it a couple of times (Mainly nickelback). I had trouble the first time I used it (it sounded a bit chipmunky) but I did basically the same thing that Millie mentioned earlier, and it worked fine!

[Brooke]

Tammy; how do you pitch shift? Where is it on the timeline?

[Aislynn]

tjmack1986 wrote:

I have Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0, and it has the pitch shift effect. I've had to use it a couple of times (Mainly nickelback). I had trouble the first time I used it (it sounded a bit chipmunky) but I did basically the same thing that Millie mentioned earlier, and it worked fine!

Ooo, that's very cool to know! 6.0 has almost no audio effects at all, you can't raise the volume on an individual clip and basically you can just do a bit of echoing and the like. I was hoping that the later versions of Movie Studio would start throwing in a few more bells and whistles like that for whenever the day comes that I can upgrade.

Thanks for letting us know, Tammy!

Brooke, if you right-click your song, it probably will be one of the options you get offered. Karolina said hers was under "audioevent FX" so you might try right-clicking the song, see if there's an audioevent FX then click it and see if pitch shift is under that. Good luck, I hope it's in there!