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Voice over tool in FCP
Hi !
I want to start using the voice over tool in the FCP, but I have never done it before (up till now, I have been recording the mini dv tape and digitizing…the good ‘ol way). But since I don’t have a camera at the moment, and I need to record some voice over, and I heard about this feature in FCP, but I don’t know anything about it. Is it any good? Is it a good substitute? Does it depend more on whether my mic is good or not? And is recording directly to the Hard drive, is this considered a good option? I am really green on this subject…:-)
Thanks !
Sarah
Sarah A. Levitt
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10 Replies
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Well it works OK. But first you have to take a good look into the manual, bacause it has a strange procedure. Als what I experienced is, that you have to look up the file in your media to really hear it
Kool En De Anderen
MAC Pro 8 core/Kona LHe/Apple FCS 2/Adobe PPCS3/Huge fibrechannel
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The quality depends on the signal with which you feed FC. You can just plug a USD mic, or a balanced signal coming from a mixer through a card.
When you use the Voice Over tool you record your audio with the quality set in your sequence. The default is 48Khz-16bits, but you can record even 96Khz-24bits.
Rafael -
Hi Rafael,
Thanks for you answer, would you say that this is a good/ok/horrible feature in the FCP. Would you use it yourself?
Thanks,
SarahSarah A. Levitt
http://www.sarahabalevitt.com -
If depends of the mic you use and whereand how you set it. If you get a clean signal, nobody can tell if has been recorded in FC or with a more profesional tool or device.
I have used the voice over tool to record draft locutions. With the microphone in the same room of the computer etc. But if you can put the microphone a monitor and a headphone for the audio return in a room with good acoustic conditions, , you can put the voice-over to whatever kind of film you want.
rafael -
Hi rafael,
yeah I just tried it now with my compter’s microphone and it came out pretty ok (yeah it’s important to be in a quiet room). But what kind or brand of microphone would you reccomment for this type of recording? It will be on the web, and maybe later turned into a DVD.Thanks for all your help!
SarahSarah A. Levitt
http://www.sarahabalevitt.com -
Hi rafael,
yeah I just tried it now with my compter’s microphone and it came out pretty ok (yeah it’s important to be in a quiet room). But what kind or brand of microphone would you reccomment for this type of recording? It will be on the web, and maybe later turned into a DVD.Thanks for all your help!
SarahSarah A. Levitt
http://www.sarahabalevitt.com -
Sarah,
The key to using the VO tool is a good mike (as in any situation); and a proper setting. I have used this with good success; however I found it impossible to do on my main editing suite, which runs a G5 with 1,000 internal fans (go intel). As a solution, I do this in another area using my MacBook Pro laptop. The results have been as good as the room I am in.
Good luck
Al Davis
Visual Velocity
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Hi Sarah,
Al is giving you a good advising.
About the mic, I have used the mic of my DVCam. Is quite direccional and do not pick much noise around. I tried with a USB mic, but was too sensible picking lot of noise and being very difficult to keep at the correct distance.
Rafael -
Thank you very much!
Have a nice weekend, where ever you are,
SarahSarah A. Levitt
http://www.sarahabalevitt.com -
Sarah,
I use the QuickTime audio recording function with an iMic USB fixture, I just plug in my camera mic. It is painless and quick.
Have a wonderful day.
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