Mike Smith
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It’s not really an alternative to volume control, though you could use it like that. You do need decent audio monitoring to know what you are doing.
Really you can use a compressor to change the relative loudness of louder and quieter parts of some of your audio, to bring it to a more consistent overall level – or selectively to bring up the quiet parts of a lead instrument (or actor, or voice over) so that it’s consistently intelligible / audible over background sound … or a bunch of other things … maybe dig around.
These might start you off.
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/archive/effects/2004-05/43641.php
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep09/articles/compressionmadeeasy.htm
https://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/the-beginners-guide-to-compression/
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS2CFD24BB-0B2B-4059-8098-D36F5EBED240.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5ikJBsDo4
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Quicktime is a surprising choice for web video.
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AVCHD normally features compressed audio though some cameras offer uncompressd as an option.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD#Audio_formats https://www.avchd-info.org/format/index.htmlThe D600 and D5100 record uncompressed audio. The S110 I don’t know so I’d expect compressed audio.
https://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d600/spec.htm
https://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d5100/spec.htmWith Premiere you’d want to match your composition / sequence settings to source settings to be sure that your comp settings, as you desire, inc uncompressed audio. If you want uncompressed audio and your preset features compression then make yourself a custom preset or try a full-HDTV preset maybe ..
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS3E67AF4C-B2A2-4f04-90B4-F8CCFB74B144.html#WSd79b3ca3b623cac941d41a681247d1f35a4-7fff
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS3E67AF4C-B2A2-4f04-90B4-F8CCFB74B144.html#WS26F635E5-97DC-4e1c-B291-70C6BC5FCBAB -
You could try asking more on the pro audio forum https://forums.creativecow.net/audioprofessionals
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Does your mic need a preamp at all …?
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Did you crop off the edges of your files, or erase pixels at the edges …? If you cropped, what happens if you try restoring the psds to their previous sizes, though now with blank space at the edges …? Of course you might want to make copies – sve your AE file and make a new one with a save as new name, and add a test suffix to your psd names and use them as replacements for your original files.
If you wanted to test not on your master file, another way might be to make a simple puppet tool test file using a psd, then try doing whatever you did to your project psds to that test file and reload in AE – if that shows the same issue, you may have identified the problem. Whether restoring psd pixel size would work as a fix would have to be tested.
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Good luck with it all. AE does offer a fabulous image / effects toolset – but there is so much to take in. The more you’re already familiar with Photoshop and Premiere the easier the entry will be.
Just working though the basics of the tools and included effects / plugins takes a while.
People major on different aspects of AE, to suit their abilities and visual tastes.
To my mind looking at and for great stuff, and then seeking out how-tos and looking into appropriate tools is a good approach, once you’ve got an overview of basic operations and tools – I’m trying to stay focused on the output and the art, rather than the use of the tool …Beyond the Adobe site and the tutorials here,
https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e.html has some interesting stuff. I think the video copilot guy has an active presence in the tutorials here. https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/ If you’re fluent with maths-style thinking AE’s expressions may appeal to you, and https://www.motionscript.com/ may be of interest.Another NYC based photographer / video artist who may be of interest to you is Jeanne Hilary https://www.jeannehilary.com//
All best.
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The signal to noise ratio is often OK on here, though I think it varies forum to forum. I think Tim and the team have tried to create a couple of “controversy” arenas to cater for those who want that (fcpx or not being one such), and to leave the tech forums a little friendlier. I don’t know Shane, and though I’d guess that’s not one of his finest posts it may not have been badly intended.
The After Effects here forum has more of an art-and-technique feel than the straight edit forums, and might be worth a look – there are some quite nice tutorals on there, available from a link along from the “add new post” link, and often some quite helpful people.
From a quick search, it looks like you have an interesting photography and art background (I like the portrait that winks) and, obviously, video skills. I’d guess the DSLR for video movement, and perhaps from the other side the emerging large-sensor video camera market, are going to lead to our seeing a lot more video and art / photography convergence in tools and techniques, if not attitudes and aesthetics – exciting times for visual artists.
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If you have After Effects available you might want to look into the time effects, especially the Echo Time effect, and see if it can produce what you want …. https://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-cow-after-effects-tutorials/echo-effect/
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS09B6A698-8F9E-4a00-8D1B-07FC62FB2D30a.html