i recorded a video earlier on skype with hans from bambuser for his 24 hr streaming event on friday which he will be documenting on his tumblr blog.

anyway, for some reason the audio on the encoded skype interview is all echo sounding whenever i try and playback on quicktime player.  it’s perfect in vlc which suggests it’s some kind of encoding that quicktime does not like playback off. i tried to rip the audio using a bunch of standard methods and kept failing so i’ve gone about it a different way – i’ve used hijack this pro.

i’ve been using hijack this for a bunch of years now and it’s my last to go to application to grabbing ‘anything’ i’m playing.  i really should use it more for a backup when we are doing shows and i’m going to get into a routine of capturing audio from the mixing desk into the app once we have that in place so we always have the audio from our sessions in case we do ever have issues with the video capture in the studio.

as far as this bug all i did was set the application recording for vlc played back, hijacked the audio stream and recorded then pulled the encoded .mp3 file straight into imovie and matched up the audio in time with the video.  i’ve been looking at final cut pro x which all the old skool final cut editors hate but looks more like imovie to me – the feature of audio mixing an external source to sync with video looks perfect for my needs.  it’s £200 for the software but it’s on the list!