[Peter Groom]

Hi
I think this idea of a lav mic going into a recorder in a pocket is the worst Ive ever heard and completely amateur.
If you have responsibility of recording this audio as you say, then how do you have any means of intervening or control on a recorder in a pocket.
What if the batteries die, get dislodged, the recorder stops, the mic becomes knocked or any of a hundred other things that can go wrong with a un monitored recording. If thats your solution then id grab any help from the pa company you can get cos they’re likely waay better than you .
Also, say the presenter gets changed at the last minute, to a lady who is wearing a figure hugging dress – what are you going to do then? tape it round her waist?

Why not get a proper pro radio mic, double mic him, record that properly and get the sound desk engineer to give you a feed of theirs too on a sep track.

Peter

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[Peter Groom]

Hi – do you want to outline exactly your workflow.
Did you try an aaf instead?
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

What does he say he wants? Thats the point.

I always want an OMF with embedded audio or AAF embedded audio. No picture file in that. At LEAST 50f handles, best 100f.
Then I have the Pictures as a hd quicktime, but thats his preference as he knows how his machine will handle different video file s best. Motion Jpeg A type is often a favourite.

Make sure you include all the wild tracks and atmos tracks from the shoot too by putting it on the timeline. It ll save him coming back and asking for it, plus any music tracks as the full track without edits etc etc so he can re craft as needed.
Peter

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[Peter Groom]

Scarlet is good, I have one myself. It will sow up in your mac audio sys prefs as a new device when you connect via usb.
then just configure , levels etc and record
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

I had a play with it in izotope but had no success. An izotope EXPERT might be able to help but im not sure because it isnt smooth , constant, a click, of a narrow freq range or any of the other easily defined parameters. If you want a specialist who you might be able to hire to look at it send me a pm.

Its not helpful I know, but I tend to think that the lessons from this are that
1) It should have been spotted within the 1st 1/4 of a second
2) Recording paused and rectified
3) Never record without headphones, and listen to a playback of a short sample before going forward.
4) I think youll need to accept the utter embarrassment and try fro a re record, or live with it and do much better next time.

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[Peter Groom]

Just had a quiclook for you.

OPen the seq youre interested in
nothing highlighted
Edit / Find
select name in drop
select contains in drop
enter the source file name that you want to find in NAME
find all
find

all the clips in the timeline from that source file are now selected
Any good.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

Well said Richard

HEADPHONES!!!

Never ceases to amaze me.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

Hi
UK is ch 38 (606-614MHz.) These frequencies are licensed for use too ie, if you use a radio mic in the uk without a license, it will likely work, but if a licensed user has issues , then your equipment can be confiscated. Use outside major cities is unlikely to have problems, but in London and other big cities, the use is very high, so Id get a license @£70 UKP.

Peter

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[Peter Groom]

I think youll need 2 cables 1 FROM the audio mixer TO the mac, and 1 from the mac to mixer.
Additionally, the reason you only have mic input available in mac / system prefs / sound, is that you dont have an interface that the MAC recognises. It wont see an analogue input as a device.
youll need some kind of interface unit. Something like a BEHRINGER UFO202 U-Phono if you want cheap or a Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface if you want to go for quality.

If you just use 2 cables 1 going each way, then you could pad down the desk out by -40db using in line XLR pads and take it into the mac mic input but it wont sound over good.

Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

If it were me Id walk away.
Id not be interested in doing a job that was guaranteed to be a disaster before it started just because other non qualified people were involved.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer