Craig Alan
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when we were striking today at 8:30 pm we realized the room got quiet. so something is running that can be shut off.
huge difference.
I’ll try to get help on that.
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Got it. Thanks. It was an interview of sorts – an analytic session. The mike was fairly close, about 2 feet. I am shooting with 3 cameras the widest being a mid shot which determined the distance that the mike needs to be. I really want to kill that sound. The room does not have good acoustics or any treatment and you have a well tuned ear. But that fan or hum or whatever it is is the thing that is really annoying. With lots of back ground noise ,like during classes with three teams shooting you really don’t notice it much. But after school more serious shoots you can’t escape it.
[Richard Crowley] “If you listen to JUST the sound from the off-camera interviewer’s headset mic, how is the signal (speech) to noise (HVAC sounds) ratio?
“still bad and I’ve tried aiming the hyper at different places in the room to try to find the source or better acoustics and it makes little difference. That’s why I though a filter might do the trick.
For dramatic reasons we can’t have the mike in the shot. But even with the countryman headset right near the mouth I can hear the b.g. noise. I will try to get our HVAC expert over – I’m wondering if the thermostats are broken. Maybe the fan does not turn off. Maybe an adjacent room could be turned off. The sound reminds me of when a fan in a computer is whooshing through cheap plastic parts and its driving you crazy when you are editing.
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Thanks John. I’ll contact the company and see if how they are coming with the Round trip to FCP X fix.
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The hypercardioid is aimed at only one person in a fixed location aimed at her mouth as close as possible, just out of frame. The male voice is miked with a countryman headset and he is off camera. What you hear is before any editing. Not sure what you are hearing that sounds that awful. But I’m not a pro audio tech and this is a no budget film in a school production studio with a noise problem that I’d like to address. The voices sound fine to me. But I’m all ears if you want to give specific advice on what to listen for or mike placement etc.
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I’ll give it a shot. I bit more life out of the ole cheese grater.
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In general, I find the inspector lacking in ergonomics.
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Thanks John. Do you think the noise in my clip can be handled in the lite version? I have a bit of funding left for this year and could cut an item to make room for the lite version. I would need it to round trip with FCP X though. I guess I could export a master of each clip from Final cut. Open it in RX 4 then reimport into FC??? How much of a learning curve? I have not worked with pro tools or any pro audio software.
Can you upgrade if you use the lite version and want to step up? Or do you pay the whole amount for the pro version?
Mean time I’ll do what I can to get someone to turn off the system. It’s also possible that the ducts are picking up noise from an adjacent room in that building. There is a garage next door. They may have something running in there. We are designing a new studio which will be built in the next two years and we’re bringing in an audio specialist to help with the design.
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I increased the gain of the noise in FC so you could hear it clearly in terms of a possible filter that would help reduce it. It’s not my choice to have air continue to be pushed through the ducts even when the thermostats are off. It’s a studio; it’s where we shoot.
I will be meeting with rep from thermostat company to see if something can be done to isolate the so that the system turns off completely when we turn it off.
here’s an audio clip with voices.
not auto gain. left and right set independently.
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well the pegasus drives work great but were three times the price at double the size. the owc seem to be working fine bout haven’t used them with usb 3 since none of our computers have usb 3. i guess its worth a gamble for a $200 card since I have the drives already and need to go back and forth with projects.
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https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/METB7DH4.0T/
I asked gary from an old thread too since he felt there were limitations to usb 3 in terms of software raids. and limited success from a lot of models.
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