Sound Editing a Feature Film

[Graham Bernard]

Separating the TRACKS so you have control on all aspects for exactly the reasons you outline, is the ONLY way to go forward.

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[Debbie King]

Thanks Grazie:

I have a lot of actors on this project, so I better get busy separating the files. You’re right I can’t mix well without the tracks being separated.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Angelo Mike]

I didn’t realize Vegas had a denoiser. I gotta try that.

I’m amazed at how difficult good location audio/dialogue can be even after thinking I’ve got a handle on it with years of shooting. I recently shot interview videos walking around where the host (my mom) talked to people in a crowded theater lobby, and it’s maddening how deficient the audio became even after I tried to get it right on location with my levels and a decent mic and recorder. The Tascam DR-05 has a sturdy build and is inexpensive, but the audio drifts and the pickup pattern with the mics sticking outward instead of in can make for one or the other channels to dominate when I never intended that to.

Purely for educational purposes, here’s what I ended up with, even after using Track Compressor and Audacity to clean up certain spots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvf_4VVaVZQ

I absolutely believe in paying for good audio equipment on location after experiences like this and am looking into something like an H4N or H6N.

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[Lance Bachelder]

I usually create 4 dialog tracks for every show – then as many fx tracks as I need – usually at least 12 – then at least 2 music tracks for overlaps etc. You don’t need a track for every actor but you never want to cut dialog on just one track.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Lance Bachelder]

No prob – have fun!

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Debbie King]

Hi Angelo:

I just clean up a clip from an outside scene in Audacity. What I did was select the noisy area in the profile and then select everything. Then click open noise removal again and clicked ok. This brought down the noise a little. I just wanted to get some of the noise from the dialogue. Afterwards I selected each area individually that was noisy and removed it, leaving the dialogue untouched. It wasn’t completely seamless, in that I had to be careful not to affect the dialogue, but it clean up my file quite well. Thank for sharing.