[Justin Huss]

Hi Jess,

It is important that you know what kind of whoosh you’re after. More in the low-end and the object it is related to will be given a sense of weight, more in the high-end and it will sound light or even swift.

I suggest you take a listen to Tim Prebble’s HISSandaROAR “Swishes” library: https://hissandaroar.com/sd002-swishes/.

If you’re looking for something low-endy you’d either take one and pitch it down a bit, otherwise don’t hesitate to record yourself making sounds with your mouth. It’s quite effective and you’ve got yourself a unique, quick and easy sound.

[Justin Huss]

Unfortunately THE ONLY measurement I can think of, one can make in a piece of footage, is the evolution of the position of a point – and this will be achieved with tracking. I’m afraid bringing time remap in the equation makes things 10 times more intricate.

I didn’t come up with anything good enough for this. If I remember well I have not been able to find out how to stabilize a motion with Tracker. Shame 🙁

[Justin Huss]

Thanks for your answers. I must say I’m not really an adept of buying sound effects but some day I’ll realize I just can’t do everything myself…

Meanwhile, thanks Peter for your offer but I think I’d have to do it myself. Here is my issue: I’ve got this five minutes video with a line (tubular thing) that moves around forward and basically you follow it for 5 minutes. I’d have liked to lay a few whooshes over that as the line dramatically changes its trajectory. I’m afraid it’d have to be made by me…

But I’ll definitely consider the “whooshes EVERYWHERE” and try to actually make something different… thanks for the offer though 🙂

[Justin Huss]

First thing, you say you’re running SP1… I think you mean Vista SP1, in which case I don’t have any experience, I can just say that Pro Tools doesn’t support Vista, even 32 bits. That’s probably a shortcut I’m taking, and maybe somebody has a solution for running Pro Tools with Vista.

Now your lavs… If I were you I wouldn’t record using a camera. Many cameras compress the audio and you don’t want that. Unless your camera records in PCM, use a dedicated audio recorder. I think portable recorder. I wouldn’t consider anything under Zoom H4n/Marantz PMD660.

[Justin Huss]

I’m really sorry but I don’t 🙁

You can try to replace footage, it should trigger auto-conforming (I think that’s what happened in my case).

[Justin Huss]

Oh yeah Ben it does help!

I did use that one but I probably was too tired to tweak it properly! Now it works 🙂 Hopefully this post will be useful for other beginners…

Cheers!

[Justin Huss]

Wahoo!!! I had the same problem, I’ve been playing with my comp settings for hours and that was the key! Thanks Dave!

[Justin Huss]

Very interesting point David 🙂

Fahad, if automatic processes don’t do it by themselves, you’re gonna have to keyframe a saturation effect, or use expressions with a modulus if the color changes are cyclical…

[Justin Huss]

I’ve never done anything like that before, but I’m gonna have to do it this week. Instinctively, I would import the CGI in After Effects, so that you can tweak colour correction afterwards…

[Justin Huss]

Thanks Chris,

However my main concern is to smooth the camera movement which has to involve tracking and I doubt VDub’s Deshaker takes care of that. Plus I am too lazy to transfer my footage to my PC as I’m working on my Mac.

I’ll give it a go soon though cause it is a pretty interesting feature! Thanks 🙂