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Need help with voice recording
I have a microphone plugged into my sound card, and want to narrate some old movies dating back to 1931. What settings do I need to make to get good audio quality in the finished movie. I have right now a 2 min video that plays smoothly enough, and I just want to record in sych, naming the names of people, most of whom are no longer alive. I was there though and some of us still are around. I did do one short clip and the narration was fine. But this clip is no go.
I just tried a recording that started out just fine. In synch, no pops or crackles, and quite clear. About 3/4 thru the video, the voice starts “breaking up” losing words and gets badly out of synch with the video. Also I rendered the movie and monitored the output. No good.
Any suggestions? I obviously don’t know what I am doing and am sitting here in the bush in northern Alberta with nobody to ask — I don’t think there is another Sony Vegas user in the county.
Thanks
Louis re******@***us.net
Louis Schmittroth
Editing and narrating some 75 year old films (home 16mm black & white) -
4 Replies
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Are you recording directly to the timeline?
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Hi Louis,
You didn’t mention the spec of your computer or your microphone, but it should be possible to record directly to the Vegas timeline without problems. One thing to watch out for is positioning the mic as far from the PC as possible to avoid HD noise.
The fact that you have succeeded with one recording means you must be doing most things right. I would do it in smaller stages – maybe 2-3 minutes at a time. Make sure the drive you’re recording your audio onto (File / Properties / Audio / Recorded Files Folder) has plenty of space and is reasonably well defragmented.
Don’t get too hung up on being in perfect synch – record it roughly where you want the commentary, then “S” to split and you can move your audio to exactly the right position afterwards.
Keep us in touch with how you’re going.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
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Hi
As Gary says record directly to the Vegas timeline. On the Audio tracks there’s an ‘arm’ button and a ‘record’ button. Connect your microphone directly to the mic in on the sound card and use the standard windows audio/recording tools to control the volume.My first ‘dub’ was made using a $2 microphone and surprisingly, came out just fine. Now I have a AT-2020 mic for my voice over’s. The AT2020 needs phantom power so I run it though my mixer.
Don’t try to record the entire script all at once. Do it in paragraphs.
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I recently bought a Firepod interface for my recording requirements and I was surprised to see how noisy my PC sound card was by comparison. I got the Firepod because I can record 8 michrophones simultaneously on a laptop running Vegas. If you don’t need 8, you can get the Firebox which is similar but two channels.
Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
San Jose, CA
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