[Debbie King]

Thanks James:

Just what I wanted to hear.

Many sincere thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Steve:

Thank you so much for your response. Yes, that would have been a great thing to level before doing noise reduction. Actually, instinctively, I did level a little, but I had not calibrated my speakers at that time. After calibrating my speakers, I found that I needed to change the levels. I am using RX3 for noise reduction, and it is really good. It just happened that in some places, the dialogue was not as cleaned up as the space surrounding it, so when the person speaks, you hear a touch of the noise that had not been reduced. I made a discovery after watching a movie in a theatre last night. The dialogue was low in the movie and appeared personal. My dialogue was louder. So, I lowered my dialogue where it felt more personal, and some of the dialogue that was hit with a little artifact after thorough clean up, sounds much much better.

Many thanks Steve.

Best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Bob:

That’s a good question. My noise reduction is in increments, but I do sometimes raise the volume of the clip, as I am in the process of leveling. I have a most recent post regarding my confusion between Volume and Leveling that I posted a few hours ago. Should I wait until all levels are in place before the clean up?

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Thanks Grazie:

Great idea. I’ll try it.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Bob:

Thank you so much. That is exactly what I did, which is why I am so perplexed. I always find a spot where there is no dialogue so to not create artifacts in the voice. Somehow, the surrounding noise disappears, but leaves the noise in the voice. BTW, this is not for all of the clips; just a few. For most of the film, I was able to get the noise cleaned up.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Grazie:

Yes. When I tried it, it cleaned up some of the hum, but created a new noise; like an echo extending from the dialogue. Kind of like a spring sort of. Even the slightest removal created yet another sound coming from the dialogue, but not on the dialogue.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Kevin:

Thank you so much for detailing this for me. Yes, I did the noise reductions, then compressed. Now I’m leveling everything. I didn’t normalize, because for some reason there seem to have still been noise on the clip that I don’t see on the graph in my noise reduction software nor hear with compression.

It’s refreshing to know that I am moving in the right direction.

Again thanks Kevin and everybody for guiding me on this very complicated process. It took me a while to grasp it.

All the best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Thank you Rodney:

This is very helpful. I just couldn’t understand why it kept reading mismatch. I’ve gone on to use another approach to getting my score done and left Cubase Artist 7 alone until I learn it better.

Many thanks for responding.

Best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Thanks Malcolm:

Definitely labor intensive and frustrating as well. Worth more than $2,000 in post. I’ve managed to get it as close as possible.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Thanks Malcolm:

This is great. Definitely will get this for the next production.

All the best,

Debbie