Debbie King
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Hi Colin:
I will try this. Thank you so much.
Best,
Debbie
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Hi Neil:
Thank you. I will definitely check it out.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi John:
Would the RX3 remove the noise without affecting the dialogue. I was trying to describe the affect Audacity had on dialogue. I read somewhere where the person called it a metallic sound. I agree with him. It’s not an echo sound it’s metallic.. Not only the dialogue, but other sounds as well are affected the same way.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Thanks Angelo and Mike:
Most of the audio in the film was good, but some scenes are missing audio from external mics, so I had to cut in the audio from the camera. In a couple of scenes the actors’ voices were low during recording, and even when I normalize it brings up everything else. When I clean up the surrounding noise, it changes the quality of the dialogue. Can RX3 help with this?
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi Mike, Stephen, John and Colin:
Thank you so much for your responses. I am in a bit of a dilemma. The film has already been produced and I am in post currently. I used a very sophisticated mic and recorder, but I still hear ambient noises, even though they are much cleaner than a few other clips of the film where I am forced to use the camera audio. I am relieved to know that the studio gets the clean sound from ADR, but would like to find a software that could at least take some of the ambient sounds out so that I can bring the voices forward. The dialogue sometimes get lost in the other noise, because raising the volume also raises volume of the noise I don’t want to hear. As mentioned, Audacity was able to get close, but it also affects the quality of the dialogue.
ADR is not an option currently, because most of my actors live in different locales. So even though I’ve had a few successfully record on their Iphone in a closet a few lines that came out very clean, I am not financially in a position to bring them back nor have the entire cast record for me. Micro budget film for sure.
Any suggestions on what you would do in this situation?
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi Stephen:
How do they get the dialogue so clean where you don’t hear any ambient sounds, except for those that are on the other channels. For instance, I used Audacity to clear some ambient sounds surrounding the dialogue. When I tried to clean it up completely, it affected the dialogue. The more I left on the audio the more natural the dialogue was. So I am not clear as to what they use to get it so clean; just dialogue.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi John:
Thank you so much. Now I can see what stems are. So after rendering into 4 channels, I can drop those stems back onto the timeline, correct? And if I pointed 20 tracks to those 4 channels, it will save in memory, correct?
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi Norman and Bob:
I have Cubase Artist 7. Would I need to create stems in the DAW and drop it into the timeline? Vegas does not create stems? Cubase is still a tremendous learning curve for me.
Norman, a little over my head. Not sure of what you mean by nesting.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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Hi Stephen:
I believe that stems are something like busses where I can combine several tracks and drop it into the timeline as one track.
Musically, if you have a horn section, all instruments are placed on a stem fully mixed. Then all you have to do is place that one stem in the timeline. It saves on memory. A complete symphonic piece can be saved in two to three stems.
Everyone, please correct me if I am off a bit.
Many thanks,
Debbie
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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.