I've got a unique issue I hope someone can help with. Using LPX 10.0.7.
I am restoring a bunch of cassette dubs of a friend's college radio show. The cassettes were recorded on decks that weren't maintained very well, and the drive motor speed is a little different over the span of time that the tapes were recorded (there are no wow/flutter issues, all of them are just recorded at slightly the wrong speed). I have one file for each show, regardless of length (the shows are typically between 60 minutes and 3 hours in length).
The shows have music played from CD, so if I have a copy of a song that was played on CD, I have a reference for speed, and also for Match EQ (which is a great trick to restore attenuated frequencies). What I wish to do is use a rip of the reference song on CD to match the speed. So I put the ripped song in a second lane next to where it appears on the show. I would like to use FlexTime on the Speed algorithm to adjust the length (therefore changing the pitch and speed) of the show recording to match the reference song, which is close enough to "restore" these recordings as my friend wishes.
Here's what I can't figure out. I did it a few times but I can't remember anything I've done differently compared to what I'm doing now. I want to trim the show recording down to just the reference song, and resize the show recording region by Option-clicking and dragging the edges so that the two waveforms line up properly, then drag out both sides of the show recording region to bring the rest of the show back onto the timeline.
I did this a few times months ago when I was starting to play with these files, and I thought it worked. After awhile, if I'd switch into Flex View, I notice that there are Flex markers at the places I originally Option-dragged the edges, and the rest of the file is not retimed.
When a file is three hours long and you're trying to match a three-minute segment to a reference, it's an endless, maddening loop of zooming out to find the end of the file, Option-dragging the region in or out just a little, zooming back into the song area, moving the reference song to match (because the point in time where the song occurs in the show has moved), noting that it needs to be further adjusted, zooming back out to find the end of the file, and so on.
I guess I just wasn't noticing that I was only time-correcting the one song when I started out, but I totally thought this worked back then, maybe it never did. Is there any way at all to adjust a small portion of a larger file to the correct speed and apply that rate of correction to the rest of the region?
FYI: I can't break the shows into smaller files, because the same issue applies - when one segment is properly timed, how do I tell exactly how much it's been corrected and apply the same correction? I also can't use Varispeed because I understand the algorithm isn't as good as FlexTime, plus the reference file would also be sped up with Varispeed as it affects all lanes at once. I am doing this in Logic because I am also doing other types of restoration - noise reduction, compression, EQ matching, etc., that I prefer to do non-destructively and have the horsepower to do in realtime.
This is driving me nuts. I hope someone can help.