Hi there, do you know if there is a way to disable laugh tracks from sitcoms? I really would like to rewatch some shows like King of Queens but I can’t bear the constant laughing in the background. Cheers
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I think this (mild/moderate annoyance) is probably the most common reason for inventing things. From cars to remote controls.
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I don’t like sitcoms in general but the fact someone made this is funnier to me than any sitcom I have ever seen and I have my own laughing track going on in here right now.
Amazing.
I remember trying to filter out the vuvuzelas during the African world cup I mainly failed and just gave up on that whole tournament.
Seeing this makes me think if it happens again I might have better lick.
Seems possible. I dabbled in audio engineering, you can train a filter to remove specific noise, specifically background noise of a location.
If I remember correctly, they did that on TV after some time. But the improved audio still wasn’t good.
Thanks man, I do not understand completely how to do this but will read into it!
this video is 5 years old already, impressive https://youtu.be/DeTQBiKzmYc
Wow. Super impressive. Guess with today’s technology you could do it pretty much 100%. I saw that model that lets you separate music into separate tracks for guitar, vocals, drums, … Guess something like that could even separate the laughs from the next actor resuming to speak.
Kind of also reminds me of those videos where they stabilize / de-shake Star Trek. There are some scenes where the ship gets shot at for example. And the actors act that out and the camera is shaking too and a bit at an angle. Looks funny once that camera shake is removed.
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That’s wild
But how would you know when something is funny then? (canned laughter)
After a little while, you’re going to prefer it to the strange pauses in the dialogue.
Not easily. The laugh track isn’t a separate audio stream by the time you get the episode. It’s all mixed together with the dialogue and music.
Watching a sitcom with the laugh track missing seems like it would be awkward. The actors are constantly taking extended pauses between lines, or sometimes in the middle of a line, while the laugh is happening.
Yeah I get what you mean, I just watched the link from the comment below and it feels really weird to watch it like this.
Now you must go further down the rabbit hole and watch musicless music videos on youtube.
This one’s my favorite: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc
Hahaha, pure art!
Do you mean muted music videos or is there something else entirely ?
They’re music videos where the music and singing is cut and ‘ambient’ noise like squeaky shoes, breathing, grunting while doing dance moves, etc is dubbed back in. You’ll see what I mean if you watch one. It may be the same thing but I’ve just always heard of them referred to as “musicless music videos”
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Original video assets from a studio has multiple audio tracks, but they are transcoded down to a single audio track before distribution to the end user. Sorry.
You could do some fancy editing, or maybe you can use machine learning somehow.
But removing the laugh track really messes with the comedic timing.
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Not really, unless you know a lot about sound engineering.
I don’t think there’s any version of the show that doesn’t have a laugh track.
Too bad, thanks!
i need this to mute certain people in shows like debbie in shameless