[Justin Farrar]

Ty – I think this method will probably be the best for me.

I also did some research and discovered that I can use the Audio Mixing tool, and record key frames on the fly by just playing back the video and bringing the audio levels up and down on the mixer. I’ll have to see which is more efficient. Checkerboarding by looking at the audio waveforms would probably be faster, but may only be possible if there is a big visible dip in the waveform for me to detect.

I’ll probably do some combination between the two… fast-forwarding through footage whenever possible to save time, and manually adding key frames with pen, or by moving the sliders around.

Thanks!

[Justin Farrar]

Thanks for this response. Definitely helpful.

I probably should have clarified that I’m a video editor – I’m given the video/audio elements to edit and deliver to client. Hence why I am not so familiar with audio mixing. These productions are sadly pretty low-budget, so they can’t be sent out and mixed properly.

I don’t believe there is a way to bulldoze/mix within a program like Final Cut Pro, but if someone could provide insight on that, that would be great. I agree, it’s important to spend the time/effort to make audio sound good – it’s just unfortunate that it comes out of my pocket in post, as I’m working at a fixed rate on these videos. The more I have to work to clean up the audio I’m given, the less money I’m making essentially.

I’ll look into that cos11 for the production team – I believe right now they use a Tram (wired) which tends to sound pretty good, and a Sennheiser (wireless) which doesn’t sound terrific and picks up much more background noise/hum.

[Justin Farrar]

Thanks everyone for the tips. Camtasia looks similar to ScreenFlow and Screenium which I’ve been using, but I’ll check it out in case I can get better results with it.

I think Mark Suszko is closest to what I’m looking to achieve, and shooting the screen with a macro lens might be the best place to start. Might take some fussing to avoid glare, etc… but will probably look more tasteful than zooming in on my web browser “zooming” within a screen capture software, which involves some distortion.

I agree, compositing onto a fake screen and adding motion would look great but probably be far beyond my abilities..