[Ilya Zaslavsky]

Hi,

I carefully followed all comments from all who kindly participated in this thread. Can you please look if the new soundtrack of the trailer no longer has any more grave mistakes?:

https://youtu.be/ji_KkhBlNGM

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[Ilya Zaslavsky]

Thanks Rafael, for all the advice I will soon put up a better version of the trailer thanks to what you and other professionals noticed here. However, I am still perplexed with one choice:

[Rafael Amador] “So if you have recorded the scene with only one microphone (you have one mono channel) you have to pan the audio a little to the left when she speak.”

But even with mono there are two ways how to make it sound a bit more to the left. The mono is still taking two tracks in my timeline – audio 1 and audio 2. By default A1 stands at -1 while A2 stands at 1.

So if I want it to sound more from the left channel I need first to press opt L and disconnect the two tracks from each other. Then I have to options.

I can either put both at say -0.6 or I can put first at say -0.9 and the second at say 0.2 so that the some voice is coming from the right channel. And I am not sure what’s the best way. In a way I can’t understand if these two ways are pretty much the same thing, and how much secondary should the right channel sound.

WHat also confuses me if what this scene was recorded in stereo – if I put 0.2 on the second track of the stereo it would almost create a mono out of it. Thus if I want the stereo to sound to the left and at the same time stay as stereo I then have to always put both A1 and A2 at say above -0.5? (thus they are both negative and both stereo enough). But in this way right channel might end up almost silent.

Thirdly what confuses me is that some of the stereo that I have of the timeline is very unequal: A1 is full of sounds, while A2 is much quitter, dull, as if it was recorded through some cloth. In some cases one of the tracks in audio (when separated from the other) is almost silent. Thus I am left with one stereo track as if it is mono. In this case anything that takes place in the centre of the scene thus forces me to pan it close to 0, which in turn makes my one stereo track to become mono track.

I wished there was some numeric guidance on how much to the left is for A1 and for A2 when it is mono with two tracks, stereo with two tracks and stereo with virtually one loud track. I do this through headphones, but am worried that in the bid movie theater it will sound like jumping from left to right or from completely mono to almost full stereo.

[Ilya Zaslavsky]

Thanks, Rafael, for looking carefully at the sound issues with pan and for comments.

I will work on pans (still searching for guides on that, but I will scan through youtube and google more).

But what about stereo and mono? Should I:

1) substitute all stereo instead of mono even if the sound quality a bit more dull and slightly noisier?
2) or keep mono, but just double it from one track to two and pan one to the right and one to the left
3) or insert stereo underneath mono track and combine the two while ensuring that loudness does not go too much up?

What is the best and accepted way professional way in such case?

Best,

[Ilya Zaslavsky]

Hi,

thanks for the response.

I compress dvd by first rendering all in the sequence: Sequence>Render All > Both
then I control click on the sequence and send it to compressor: Send To > Compressor
When Compressor opens I click in the Window drop down menu at the top of the
screen and choose Layouts > Standard 1280×800.
In the Settings Window, I click on the Settings Tab. I then open the folder Apple > DVD > DVD: Best Quality 90 Minutes. II then highlight both of them and drag them into the Batch Window where it says Drag Settings and Destination Here.
I then Control+Click the word SOURCE and choose Destination > Other. And I choose a folder that I created there.
After I compress it and get two files on the hard drive I then send them to DVD Studio Pro where I create a First Play DVD on DVD-R blank disc. i first simulate (no waves shown in simulation!) then press Build and then Format.

The film is 21 minutes long.

I am not entirely sure what do you mean by self contained Quick Time movie? By settings you mean that I should not change anything in Final Cut? but I have not. I just render all, that’s all. And by opening in the compressor for the encoding, where is that option?

I looked at a youtube video that shows that someone just does a dvd from final cut directly to dvd. Do you think that for festivals I should still better to go through compressor and DVD studio? I guess that’s the standard best quality way? Sorry if too many questions, I am just an amateur but the film that we did is high quality and it would be a pity to impact that adversely at this last stage.