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Severe loopback of sound when recording in Premiere CS3
Hello, guys!
I have a big dilemma: I shot and recorded a big two day presentation where half of it was spoken in English and the other half in Spanish. I have a translator flying in from Mexico tomorrow to dub the Spanish portion over to English. In Premiere Pro CS3, I setup a new track to record while she can listen to the audio and watch the video, while translating in real-time.
After a few tests, I record nothing but severe loopback of the project’s audio. A short section of the project’s audio loops, then another section of the project’s audio loops on top of the previous loop, and so on and so forth. I have a Shure SM58 hooked up to a small Mackie mixing board, and it’s outputting to the sound card. Unfortunately, with our equipment, the mixing board is outputting to the 1/4″ jack of the sound card. Our only sound card is the on-board sound card on the motherboard.
I could possibly blame the problem on the on-board sound card, but I was wondering if it’s just some setting that I’m not using. I get clean sound from the mixing board to the sound card when recording in Soundbooth, but nothing but loopbacks in Premiere. Does anyone have a solution? If not, can someone suggest another work flow? Immediate help is greatly appreciated! Thanks again, guys!
-Todd
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5 Replies
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Record the voice-over with a microphone connected to you camera on tape. Capture the tape (sound only) and put the sound on the timeline.
The advantage is that you can correct the timing of the voice-over and put the voice-over actor in a silent room for better quality.Good luck
Phocas Kroon
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That sounds good and will work, but then I have to go back and capture the audio in real-time. I’m talking about translating 5-6 hours of spanish to english. Also, if she makes small mistake and then the timing then is off again. Is there any way to do a voice over in Soundbooth?
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I see your point if you have 5-6 hours voice-over.
You can record it with a sound program like Soundbooth to create a .wav file. You can do that with a second PC or laptop and use the first PC to show the movie. If she makes mistakes, stop the movie on the first PC, go back in the timeline as much as necessary and play again. Don’t stop the soundrecording and make the correction during the editing of the voice-over later.Good luck
Phocas Kroon
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I use this feature often and it works well, even with loud natural sounds in the original audio.
To avoid feedback one should mute speaker and listen with headphones. Beyond that the are some settings in Preferences>Audio Hardware that may affect things.
I use a $15 Soundblaster sound card. -
Mike,
Thank you SO MUCH! It WAS the sound card! I went out and got a new Soundblaster Audigy for $30. Solved the problem! Can’t believe the motherboard’s sound card was the root of the problem. Also, you helped me solve this problem JUST in the nick of time! A million thank yous!
Warmest Regards,
Todd Panzica
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