Audacity won't let me normalize

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to finish up my last podfic for the amplificathon contest -- which is over tonight -- and I'm having trouble with Audacity not letting me normalize the first part of the story, which is edited and is 66KB. It started acting a little strange at the end of editing last night, when it wouldn't let me cut a long stretch, so I had to cut, like 1 minute at a time. It started to let me normalize by doing the same thing - just one minute at time, which was going to take forever but I was willing to do it, but now it just keeps closing me down. Sigh. I only got 1 minute in.

I just now tried to normalize the second part -- about 50 minutes -- and it worked just fine. (Thank God).

Any ideas on how to fix this? I do not have any other programs running tonight, I did last night.

Posting this at Amplificathon and podfic tips.

Laurie

Comments

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this all out. I had to post it the way it was for the contest, but I saved the .aup file and I'll keep trying to fix it.
Laurie

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

I was very pleased to do it--I really wished I'd had someone to tell me all that when I hit the similar snag, as I was, erm... kind of angry at the time. Heh. Hopefully the sound differential wasn't too large!

[laurie-ky.livejournal.com]

I did the amplify down thing and I could see the spike being reduced , although, my god, that's slow, but after I did it about three times -- the program started kicking me out again. It didin't seem to matter where I tried to lower the spikes. I don't think it sounds too off for part one so I am officially waving the white flag at Audacity. But I learned more about how the program works and for that I thank you.
Laurie