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Audio sounds like it’s in a cavern
Hi, I’m editing a project I did not shoot. While reviewing the audio, I’ve come to the conclusion that the sound wasn’t captured very well. It sounds like they put a person in a really large room or cavern and then recorded them speaking. Is there any way to modify the audio so that it sounds like the person is speaking normally in an average size room? I’ve been trying to play with filters, and I know you can do the oppisite. But I just can’t figure it out. Please help (even if it’s just to say that it’s impossible).
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Don’t be quick to assume it is all bad… go back to the original footage and be SURE you hear each audio track separately. Pan them, left and right as well. You might have made a mistake and imported just the shotgun audio off the camera, and not the channel with the lav mic, or set up your audio in the NLE to not be able to hear the best track.
Small hope to cling to, I know, but I have had some scares over they years that turned out to be just this kind of thing. If you’re havign a really bad day, then it might have been that the shooter wasn’t paying attention and put the shotgun on both channels, seeing an audio meter jumping is no sure way to know you’re actually capturing anything USEFUL.
Bad shooting is not the editor’s fault.
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If I play the original footage from the mini DV tape, I still hear the weird cavern-like sound. So, I don’t think I only imported one audio track, unless the other track is somehow muted even when I play the tape.
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No, but you could still be monitoring both channels when you listen off tape. Call up a clip in your viewer, then go to the audio tabs – you should, ideally, have 2 – then in turn, mute each one and listen to the other. Sometimes you discover things aren’t so bad after all. If they are, and the audio has been badly recorded, there isn’t that much that can be done to remove that ‘cavernous’ sound without a lot of skill and time (and hence money!)
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Yeah, I understand what you’re saying. Actually whoever shot this only recorded audio in channel two. Channel one is just blank. Oh well. I assumed there was no easy way to fix this, but I figured I’d ask anyway. Thanks for your help!
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