[Max Huggett]

Thank you very much for your reply Greg.

My lav mic is the best out of the two and it does sound good.

“What is it about the sound you don’t like? Why does it need enhancing?” Well thats the thing, i don’t know. I do not know whats wrong with it and what needs enhancing, hence why i am here. I was hoping there were a few techniques that you audio pros use when exporting a simple dialogue for DVD. Its like shooting with film or HD. An average person would expect the quality of the picture to be perfect, yet we know that it still needs to be graded a little before it goes out.

I will give your suggestions a go and report back.

Have a great day.
Max

[Max Huggett]

Hi Peter

Im sorry if i am being a pain and not understanding you properly, but i realise there is nothing i can do with the elements presented ie. echo and circular saw. Its no longer a problem and we can live with it.

I am after general techniques audio professionals apply to audio to enhance a voice/dialouge.

I work as a compositor and if someone asked me for a general tip to make video look better, i would tell them to look at crunching the black level, enhance the saturation a little….maybe do some overlay techinques etc…to get rid of the dull original look.

These similar techniques i am after for audio. If using an equaliser filter as you have described, will do that, then I thank you for your suggestion, i will give it a go, but there surely must be a couple more filters i can play with to make my audio better than the orginal. Or if you know of a any sites that can tell me these things, i’d be happy to look them up and read. I can’t seem to find too much here on the cow.

Thank you for your patience with me.

Max

[Max Huggett]

Thank you for your reply.

There was nothing i could do about where the recording was being done and the fact that a circular saw can be heard in the background on a number of occassions, again, we where aware that the business next door needed to work also.

Regardless of this, the point of my post was to ask for techniques that would allow me to sweeten the audio. I do not have the faintest idea of what is possible to do with audio and make the dialogue sound better. If you could enlighten me as to some of your magical techniques, i would be forever greatful.

Basically i have cut in FCP, a multicam sequence and lay down my master audio on tracks 1 & 2, which, in places, has also been cut and trimmed (so its not one continuous track). On tracks 3 & 4, i have some music stings etc. What is the best way to work with this type of project.

Thanks alot.
Max

[Max Huggett]

Hi Hector

Yes, my clip settings are the same. When i made a new sequence and dropped my first clip into it, it asked me if i wanted to make the settings the same as the sequence. I chose yes.

But you highlighted an important point. Collapsing. Until you mentioned it, i never realised that this needed to be done, and when i read up on it and applied it, i can now apply more FCP effects without the need to render.

THanks alot

[Max Huggett]

Hi Walter.

i know how to grade with After Effects really well. and i was just playing around with color and it did seem easy to use, especially using the the applied Grade settings which i made and copied to each of the 3 subsequent shots.

But even in FCP, i am doing the same thing….. appyling a few filters then copying and pasting to each shot.

I guess i was hoping for it to be realtime and no rendering as i am going to run low on disk space.

Thanks
M.

[Max Huggett]

it was shot on HDV and ingested at proRes 1440 x 1080. No other filters are applied.

The effect is being applied to a multicam layer if that helps? And all other layers above, have been turned off.
m.

[Max Huggett]

upon further inspection, i can only apply 1 3way cc to the layer before, the red render bar comes up on the second application of it.

[Max Huggett]

Hi Hector

Yes…it is repetitive and should be quite easy to grade, but my cameras did not match each other, and at times, the exposure goes a little crazy, so i am trying to match shot to shot before i attempt a saturation on a color.

I am working in a ProRes project with settings of 1440×1080, with lower thirds also frequently popping up.

Before i apply effects, my timeline is green. With the lower thirds over it, it is periodically red. A simple 3 way cc does not affect the green line, however it is the other cc effects that slow it down.

I am also finding that over the 10 frames, that my lower thirds fade out, somehow, it also affects the cc on the vision layer below it. So there is a color shift for that 10 frames. When i delete the dissolve and reapply, re-render, it fixes it, but i don’t really want to do be doing that for the 7 hour project.

I might just turn off the lower thirds and work with the master layer and see how that goes.

Cheers
m.

[Max Huggett]

Thanks Josh, but all my graphics are rendered to a single file (11 mins long).

In my edit, I have just gone through that file and found each inpoint and quickly tried to take 6 seconds of each 15sec graphic. So on my timeline, these graphics are all between 5 and 7 seconds, and i just want to tidy them up by making them all 6 seconds.

Thanks
m.

[Max Huggett]

Firewire….Followed Chris Poissons tutorial. The footage is HDV.