[Gilles Gagnon]

I know what you mean about overcranking the noise reducers. I’m hoping to elimiate some of the hiss that the condenser mic picked up (room tone).

what do you mean by “phoning home” ?

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Mark,

Levelator sounds great! I just downloaded it!

I will first clean up the audio of the condenser mic with soundsoap as there was more hissing. Then I’ll give levelator a try. It may be tricky because this one track contains various audio levels due to the various distances of attendees to the mic and various softness / loudness of voices.

I may end up having to do lots of manual vol adj.

Do you have tips on how to make the audio (voice) sound best? (ie. normalize, compress, etc).

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hey Mark! Thanks for asking! I just got back.

Well I can tell you that the responses and info in this thread helped me out A LOT!

I think it went fairly well. I’ll really see when I start the post. I had the lav on the Speaker connected to the roving cam and the other (safety cam) was using a condenser mic on one channel which was on a stand.

One thing that I hope won’t be too much of a problem is that the seating was in a U formation (13 attendees) with the Speaker at the open end of the U. I broke the 180 rule several times taking shots of the attendees asking questions, etc. I will establish right off the bat in the video, this configuration and hopefully, the eye-line won’t be confusing when the 180 is broken (by that I mean at times I was a the bottom of the U shooting “up” and at other times I was on the left side shooting down toward the bottom of the U to capture attendee comments or discussions with the Speaker.

I’m sure I’ll have some color corrections to do and lots of vol level adjustments but I’m hoping it’ll be a good product in the end. 3 hours shot… 6 tapes.

Thanks sooooo much to you and the others who took the time to share their video wisdom.
GIlles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks again,

I’ll try this setting for my next edit and will re-post if my problem reappears.

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks John,

Do you mean that my fx can actually have more detail in the preview window if set to good or best?

[Gilles Gagnon]

thanks John!

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi John,

does this mean I would use “Sony AVC for the Internet 4:3 30p” template for SD… for Youtube? is this the best?

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for the tip Alan! The gig is tomorrow and I can’t get to a store but I’ll keep this in mind for future projects.

Thanks again

[Gilles Gagnon]

Alan,

I like the idea but pardon my ignorance… how do I do this?

[Gilles Gagnon]

you’re right Chip… main audio off lav mic on one camera, the one I’ll be operating so I can monitor the sound through the headphones.

Interesting idea to record to HD. I’m not at this stage yet, but will definitely keep this in mind for the future.