Voice Distortion

I am brand new to Final Cut Pro and am trying to learn some new stuff. I want to do a voice distortion on an interview clip. Sort of like in those NBC news shows where they interview someone who saw a murder and they don't want people to know who it is so they deepen the voice. Can anyone help?? Thanks a lot!

how hard do you want to make it?
you can bounce the interview segments out to SoundTrack Pro and do some pitch shifting there
or grab a free AU plug such as Octave Shifter from Audiowish and use it from within FCP
or just use the one already built in Audio Filters>Apple>AUPitch

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Is this distortion of the voice due to the effects I have added? The audio effect which I suspect to have caused this distortion [upon export] couls be 'STEREO SPREAD'. The other effect I have aded to the voiceover audio clips is: Voice Over Enhancement.
I shall move on and try to export after removing the 'stereo spread' effect and see what would happen. But untilsuch I time I would love to know from peers as to what has caused this problem. FYI, I have very little knowledge of the requirements of editing audio and I can say I am 'dabbling' with this matter. I have not had any distortion related audio problems when I was using the 8th version of FCPX.

Hello Russ and Peter,
Thanks for being helpful. I trust the following screenshots will help you to understand the matter:
FYI, this screenshot shows the position of the project after I have done the unchecking of the stereo spread effect for all the 3 [compound] audio clips immediately beneath the primary storyline. When I had made the first export, the stereo spread effect was checked in all the three clips.
The first clip which has been selected and whose information is presented in the inspector window is the 'introductory' voice over which is a compound clip of several voice overs done for that section. It is this compound clip having the voice overs that is having a voice distortion. Pertinently, there is no voice distortion when the clip is played on the timeline having both the 'voice over enhancement' and the 'stereo spread' effects checked. It is only in the exported movie that I get the distortion. You may hear this distortion by viewing the video which I have posted on You Tube. The link to this video is given at the end of this post.
The above screenshot shows the second compound clip being selected. This clip contains the audio fro my Sony Handycam. The effects which have been added to this clip can be seen in the inspector window. You can see that the stereo spread is unchecked, but, it was checked when I had made the first export. There is no voice distortion in this compound clip either on the timeline or in the exported movie.
The above screenshot shows the third compound clip selected. This clip has all the voiceovers of the ending message of this project. There is no voice distortion with this clip either on the time line or after export with the two effects checked.
The link to the video is :
http://youtu.be/rfigSWfzPZw
Thanks in advance. Regards and take care!

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Hello from Italy,
same problem here. Audio crackling during call using headphones and phone speaker and :
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Bye,
IPK
www.ipnotik.com

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If this has been asked elsewhere, sorry! Please direct me.
I have a 21.5" Intel Imac my husband got for me last April. He got the JBL duet speakers at the same time. They have always worked great and I love them.
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Hi
1.
iMovie 1 to HD 6 mainly are intended for two kind of materials (as I get it)
• Video - StreamingDV (as from a miniDV Camera) and via FireWire
• Audio - Except from Camera also .aiff 48kHz 16-bit
I would
• Convert the audio to .aiff 48kHz 16-bit
2.
Don't really understand. Most DVD-player can be set to match the Play-back device
eg Widescreen or CTR-TV
3.
DVD is a final product with a very reduced quality.
I only use miniDV tape and standard 4x3 TV-video as my material and to keep Maximum
Quality I always Copy-back to tape and deliver this. Then the reciever get's
100% of original quality.
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Hi:
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for software of plugins that created vocal effects or voice distortions. I have heard some effects in rap songs and also in death metal, and I am trying to recreate certian effects. I'm sure I can play around with traditional effects, but was wondering if anyone knew of any other programs/plugins that would accomplish the same thing.
I was particularly interested in an effect that allowed me to create a kind of realtime vocal that sounded like slow motion.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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chazperx wrote:
Hi:
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for software of plugins that created vocal effects or voice distortions. I have heard some effects in rap songs and also in death metal, and I am trying to recreate certian effects. I'm sure I can play around with traditional effects, but was wondering if anyone knew of any other programs/plugins that would accomplish the same thing.
I was particularly interested in an effect that allowed me to create a kind of realtime vocal that sounded like slow motion.
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Chaz
To do the slow motion, you have to pretty much do it non-realtime, or just use a harmonizer set to tune the vocal very low.
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Hi folks,
I'm completely new to fixing audio. I am making a short film, and for a voice-over, I recently had to do an interview over the phone (the subject lives in a very remote location). Actually, I used GoToMeeting, we called into the conference call feature from our phones, and I recorded the meeting into a wmv file. Then I re-encoded it using Expression Encoder so I could pull it into Adobe Audition.
I am attaching a short phrase (extracted as a .wav file) from the interview in the hope that someone can tell me how to improve the quality of the sound. I have Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition, both CS6 and CC versions.
Short voice recording - Creative COW
1. Can anyone tell me, please, how to get rid of the high-pitched "ringing" kind of distortion that we hear on each of her loudest syllables? Also, does this particular type of distortion have a name? I kept finding articles on fixing sound, but wasn't sure what I'm dealing with here, so I wasn't sure which techniques were likely to work. Tried a bunch, and the overall sound got better, but so far nothing has fixed that high-pitched distortion.
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Thanks in advance,
Mary

Well, I don't think there's any miracles to be had here. As you say, it's a telephone call and I fear that, since phone lines filter out anything above about 4k, there's no way of replacing it.
I had a look at your file in spectral view and you can clearly see the original material going, as expected, up to about 4 kilohertz--but, above that, there's a generalised area of noise. My suspicion--and it's only a suspicion--is that during your double conversions (to wmv then through a third party app to something else) one of them has added the extra noise as it your original was full bandwidth.
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I am going to translate what my fellow Dane Stjernholm says, in order that the experts here might chime in (and because it might be considered bad manners to continue in non-English) (and to prove that all us Danes speak perfect English!):
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