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FCP and MS-Stereo (Figure 8 Mic & cardoid)
Hi All,
I’ve recently looking into something called MS-Stereo, and was hoping someone had some experience with it in FCP. For a short explaination, it’s when you put a figure8 and a caridoid mics one to each channel of your recorder. In post, you play some games by adding and subtracting chanel information to get this really nice (if you have good mics) surround sound. The benefit is, that such a rig is rather small, and you get sound like you can never get with a shotgun.. I’ve been really impressed with what I’ve heard.
Anyway, how exactly you do the magic in post is unknown to me.. I don’t know if the audio has to be stripped, and processed outside of FCP and then brought back in, or if FCP has some facility to do this.
Anyone had experience with this? How did you do it?
Thanks!
Brian
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2 Replies
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Hi!
The manual way to “decode” a M(id) S(ide) recording is that you have to duplicate the Figure 8 mic, switch phase to the duplicate. And pair the two Figure 8 channels as a stereo pair (pan left – right) = the S(ide signal)
The amount of volume of the Side signal determins the “width” of the soundscape.However I do not know if you are able to switch phase to an audio track in Fcp…
Audio programs like Pro Tools have a way to interpret audio as an MS signal so that you dont have to do it manualy…
Often its best to edit your movie, export the sound/or send it to Soundtrack Pro and do the MS decode there…
best regards
Andreas -
Can’t do it, Sorry.
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