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Audio question
To all audio geniuses:
I recently recorded an interview on the DVX100. I paid close attention to the levels on the LCD monitor, and they were looking fine. However, it turns out that the wireless lav was feeding really hot into the camera, so it sounds overmodulated (even though the levels were reading fine).
What should I do? Is there a FCP filter that could correct this? Again, it’s not a matter of high levels, it’s an audio quality issue.
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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There isn’t a lot that you can do. SoundTrackPro might be able to help it a little, but if you’re audio is clipped (from the mic source) that data is gone. It’s like overexposing video so you lose the highlights.
Try Soundtrack Pro or let an audio mixer listen to it and have him give you his opinion on it.
(without actually hearing it, there is only so much we can suggest.)
-Russ
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Russ is correct, once you have bad audio-you’ll always have bad audio. This is why you always need to check the audio source with headphones-during the recording. I always emphasize to our students that getting good audio is MORE important than getting good video. You can cover up bad video with b-roll, graphics, etc, but if you have bad audio-you have nothing.
I’ve done my fair share of audio recovery, and it’s nearly an impossible task. Our recording studio has a top-of-the-line ProTools system, and it still can’t recover disorted audio that well. The tools in Soundtrack is just about as good. You can recover occassional spikes and crunches, but it would be difficult to recover and entire interview.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Thanks for all the advice. I figured this was the case. Luckily I have decent audio from the shotgun mic.
Thanks!
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