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Working with 2 channels, 1 Ambient & 1 with a Microphone.
Hi,
I am working on a wedding where the Groom is at the Alter and he is wearing a Lav. Mic on his jacket.
This is plugged into Channel 2 on the camera.
Channel 1 channel is just ambient.
I brought the footage in as 2 Mono Tracks ao I can separate the channels.
When they were on the timeline, I Unlinked all of the tracks. I then deleted Track 1 off of the timeline (Ambient), I copied and Pasted Audio Track 2 onto Audio Track V1 so both tracks are now the Mic on the Grooms jacket.
His audio was up and down so I had to make razor blade cuts before he spoke everytime to fix his levels. I then went into Audio Gain and, depending on how loud or soft he was, I adjusted the Audio gain volume in the dialog box for everytime he spoke.
Was this the best way to do this?
Is there a better way to separate the channels and do what I just did to get the levels right?
Is there a way to Highlight all of his clips, His clips only, and tell Premiere Pro CS 5.5 to make all his levels at -6? That would be the best option. Then, if neccessary, I can just go in and tweak a few that still were too loud or soft.
I come from FCP 7
Thanks in advance
Premiere Pro CS 5.5
Mac Pro
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No need to unlink. Option click on audio 1 and delete it. Then add a “Fill Right” effect to Audio 2 and you’ll have 2 channels of audio coming from that single track. Right click on that track and “Edit in Audition”. Sweeten/adjust/normalize the track in Audition and save. It will replace the audio on you timeline in PPro.
Does 5.5 still use Soundbooth? If so, that’s where you can fix your track.
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If you take the audio into Soundbooth or Audition (Can’t remember what 5.5 had) you can use the audio filtering in there to add compression and normalization to the audio to help smooth out the audio automatically.
They way you did it was definitely the most painful way but all of us have done it. Though we don’t cut the audio, we just keyframe the changes.
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for the info. It worked out Great.
As a test, I created a new sequence with the same footage I used before when I cut up each time he spoke and manually leveled the audio one clip at a time.
I brought the footage in as a stereo track with the video attached on V1
I immediately went to Audio effects and put the Right Fill Effect on the Stereo Audio Clip. That got rid of the ambient channel and doubled up on the Microphone channel. Just what I wanted.
I then made a Razor Blade cut right when he starts to say his vows. I made another cut at the point where she is finished saying her vows.
I brought it into Soundbooth straight from Premiere Pro. I then went to Process —— Equalize Volume Levels.
10 Seconds later Soundbooth had equalized all the levels of The Groom, The Bride and the Priest. They were not peaking or anything. Perfect levels.
I then saved it and went back into Premiere Pro and the new levels were there replacing the original ones. I played in Premiere, and the levels were just as they were in Soundbooth. Perfect.
This will save me so much time from now on.
Thanks for the Tip.
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