[Sophia Smoloka]

Hi Ty and Peter,

The call wasn’t recorder with Call Recorder but with mp3 Skype Recorder and unfortunately, the in- and outgoing audio wasn’t recorded to separate tracks (I don’t think that’s possible with mp3 Skype Recorder).

So unfortunately this recording can’t be salvaged.

Thank you for your help though!

[Sophia Smoloka]

I’m not sure how it was recorded but it was via Skype. However, there is only on track for the call, i.e. both sides are merged into one track. I will find out if there is an option to save the track separately with the software that was used.

[Sophia Smoloka]

Thanks for your tips – using my ears, definitely makes sense 🙂 I guess it’s just that it might sound fine for me with my setup but it won’t on someone else’s setup. But I get that there isn’t a bullet proof way of doing it using the monitors.

Is there anything I can do if I can’t get loudspeakers? I work for a company in an office with lots of people that don’t want to listen to me editing a video all day. I know that’s not ideal but there’s nothing I can do about that.

I’ll try different kinds of headphones to reach a middle ground and then listen to it on a few different laptop loudspeakers to see if it’s ok. This is an online video so it will only ever be watched on laptops and mobile devices (with and without headphones).

[Sophia Smoloka]

Sorry, with on-location interviews I mostly mean inside, mostly in someone’s office and sometimes at a conference location (although again, with the possibility of finding a quiet room where there isn’t much going on around). So it doesn’t need to withstand any dramatic conditions but needs to be free of handling noise and be good at recording speech. I’d like to be able to record the interviewer’s questions as well as the answers though.

The reason I’m asking for a USB/XLR mic is because you can plug that into the computer and H4n simultenously. So when you record a skype call, the person on the other hand can hear you through the mic (via USB) and on the H4n you’ll also be recording yourself through that mic (via XLR). Is that possible with an adapter? I’m imagining an XLR splitter where one end goes into the H4n and the other end has an XLR to USB adapter that will go into the computer…

I guess I’m wondering whether there is a mic that could do both or whether I should be getting 2 mics for the jobs (which I don’t have budget for though).

[Sophia Smoloka]

Hi Ty and thanks for your reply,

Is there an alternative to the ElectroVoice RE50 that you know of that’s cheaper? I know asking for the same quality for less $$ is the impossible question…

Something like this for example?
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/984649-REG/polsen_hdr_10_hand_held_dynamic_omni_directional.html
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/157395-REG/Shure_VP64A_VP64A_Omni_Dynamic.html

If I understand this right, these type of mics are more suitable for interviews than the mic I suggested before (omni directional vs cardioid) as you don’t have to get as close to the interviewee and you can move the mic back and forth. Will they pick up more background noise though?

I will look into buying an external recorder because it’s probably the more sensible choice. If that’s not an option in terms of budget, I guess the iRig Pre would be a way of feeding the mic into the phone. Headphone would be used in either case!

Thanks!

[Sophia Smoloka]

Hi Ty,

Thanks for your reply!

I usually attach the lav to the jacket if they have one, or the collar or tie – depending on what they are wearing. I try to hide the cable but I don’t mind if the actual mic shows.

With the clips I have, I can’t really make a double loop and the cables are quite thick so running them through the clip once more to make a loop would probably make everything even more wobbly.

Do you perhaps have a picture of how you secure the mic?

Here’s one of the mics and the clips I have.

[Sophia Smoloka]

[tj reis] “Well I found what was causing my video to blue after rendering. I use fraps to record gameplay. I have 3 monitors so I put the game in window mode instead of full screen. By being in window mode my comp said 1920×1058 and I kept changing it to 1920×1080 so that is was caused my blur after render. I changed it to windowed(full screen) mode in the game settings and when I imported video into AE it said 1920×1080 🙂 so that was an easy mistake that took me for ever to solve lol.”

Glad you solved it! The issue still persists for me unfortunately… :/

Media Encoder only partially solved the problem (thanks for the tip by the way!) as some of the clips go slightly choppy towards the end of clip. I’m basically at a loss. Using the HD 1080p 25 preset in Media Encoder, I get relatively big files, for example a 1 minute clip turn into 276MB file.

I will try reducing the quality just to see if that makes a difference but if someone has a clue what might be causing this please let me know!

[Sophia Smoloka]

The clip doesn’t actually play back well in PP either, so once I work on it in AE it goes choppy – when I use the method using Media Encoder posted above, it works though. Any suggestions what might be going wrong between AE and PP here? Thanks

[Sophia Smoloka]

I tried this and it works!

Used Media Encoder to export the AE composition like described and imported it back to PP. To test it, I exported a little section with the newly imported clip and an old one and you can definitely see the difference.

Based on this result, surely there must be an easier or automatic way using dynamic link…?