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FCP audio question
Part of the project I am working involves a woman sitting at a desk talking, part of which was done in a medium shot, the other part in a close up. The sound was recorded with seperate channels for the boom and lavolier mics. In the medium shot her audio sounds fine, in the close up, she has way more vocal presence and sounds a little muffled, presumably from the lavolier. Unfortunately, it would seem that in the close up, both channels have the lavolier sound, as if it were panned to both channels instead of one. I can’t use the medium shot because she does not read those lines in said shot, only in the close up.
So, basically my question is can I do anything to remove some of this presence without it sounding terrible as a result? I don’t do much in depth audio work in FCP (or at all) so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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Mute one of the audio tracks in FCP, listen, then open it back up and mute the other, listen again.
See if you can find the cleanest track and use it.
If you’re still having trouble…
Go back to the master tape, play it and plug headphones directly into the deck and listen to one ear and then the other.
See of the audio is, in fact “lav on one channel”, “boom on the other” and if one or the other is “clear.”
After you find out, please post back.
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I did just that and found that on the scene in question both channels are indeed the same and seem to be lavs. One is not cleaner than the other. Pretty much everything else on the tape has lav on channel 1 and boom on channel 2.
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[John Meyers] “on the scene in question both channels are indeed the same and seem to be lavs. One is not cleaner than the other.”
Sorry to hear that.
Other than careful use of EQ filter (3-band or otherwise) and a level adjustment, you may just have to live with it.
Or use the infamous “RESHOOT FILTER.”
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Thanks for the input. It made it slightly less terrible but I think I’m stuck with it.
We may have go with the reshoot filter, as my liberal use of the “swearing at the monitor filter” has made little to difference.
Thanks again for your help
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