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How do you handle Lav Mic Bleed in Adobe Audition?
Hey everyone.
Currently, I’m trying to clean up the audio for a short film. Due to the nature of the shoot, we had to use Lav mics on our actors. As the actors move around the room, there are varying levels of audio bleeding into the other actor’s mic, particularly the moments when the actors come face to face. Because the scene deals with an argument, the audio starts fairly low, then gets much louder as it goes on. There are actually points when the audio bleeding into the mic gets to levels you would want normal dialogue to be at. Even more problematic, given that it’s an argument, the actors’ audio overlaps in several places.
Should I go back and cut out the other actor’s audio when possible, but leave it when the two actors are speaking at the same time? Would that create consistency issues? How do you typically handle situations like this?
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2 Replies
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dynamics processing might help for lower volume part. for same volume, inverting one track and combining stereo to mono would phase cancel the other mic. if that didn’t work, you’ll need to key frame the tracks, but if same volume and same time…. there are some prototype programs that separate tracks into single voices using machine learning. I think RX was working on something similar. also, post this question in audition adobe forum. it has several professionals.
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Wasn’t it Orson Welles who was credited with the concept of overlapping dialog in the movies.? The press scene in Citizen Kane. What is it that is an aesthetic problem with your soundtrack that you can’t fix by simply adjusting levels of the different tracks? Maybe there is too much room presence . . . can’t cut between lines that aren’t clean?
Is there a technical issue? Curious. In case I try to do this sometime.
Thanks,
Cheers,
RobertRobert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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