Steve King
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Here’s another thing to think about. Depending on what is happening from shot to shot adjusting the cut point on either or both the original shot and the following shot can make a huge difference in the smoothness of the ‘transition’. Even two or three frames can be important to avoid a jerky look.
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Just a couple of points to add to John’s and Old Smokes good advice: You can place your microphone sideways just as long as the front face of the mic is pointing at the sound source, your mouth in this case. As the mic is moved farther away from the sound source the the ratio of the sound of your voice and the other sound sources in the room, the computer fans for instance changes. Farther away, more room sound compared to voice sound. Not good. In your case eleven inches should be fine if the mic is correctly pointed at your mouth. Here’s another issue: having the mic low and looking up at your mouth will result in a different sound than having the mic high and looking down…more chest sound in the former and less in the latter. The difference is often not much but usually is enough that recordings made both ways are noticeably different, when edited together. About John’s point of dynamic mics being less sensitive than condenser mics, that is true and all settings being equal using a dynamic mic will result in a lower level recording. That can be corrected by increasing the amplification; however, microphone preamplifiers in computers are not very high quality. Among other deficiencies computer mic preamps generate self-noise; the more gain you use the more that self noise will be amplified along with the desired signal from the microphone. Therefore, it is desirable to use condenser mics because of their higher output. To get back to your specific problem, if you are experiencing a difference in sound quality between two recordings something changed: settings in Vegas, mic distance, mic placement, or how you used your voice. Here’s one more tip. You can use a microphone’s directional pattern not only to focus on the sound source, your voice for instance, but also to reduce unwanted sound in the room by orienting the back of the microphone in the case of a cardioid toward the unwanted sound. Not too long ago I decided to simplify my editing/recording room. I had placed the computer in a closet about 10 feet away from my desk, which meant longer monitor cables, USB lines, etc. Very quiet, but very inconvenient. I moved the computer to under my desk. That changed the noise lever in my voice recordings. However, by reorienting my Sennheiser 416 shotgun mic a little I was able to use the mic’s direction characteristics to reject much of the CPU fan noise, enough so that the result is acceptable for the work I now do. Hope this helps.
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Once you have your intra file that you can stretch as needed, how about a mask to cut off the comma and other numerals you don’t want visible?
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I wonder if anyone has actually solved this problem. I am getting random cut-outs of audio, which is to say that even though the waveform clearly shows audio continuously exists it totally drops out, is not heard, for a word or two then resumes. Also, in a random fashion audio from a different file in the project replaces short portions of audio in another track. In other words, on a narrator track there will be random snippets of sound from either another narrator file in the project or from a music file in the project. I’ve been posting in a thread on the Magix Vegas Pro forum. Seems no one there has experienced this issue. I look forward to any suggestions.
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I’m using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i 4. It has the two XLR/TRS Line inputs you require. Works fine for me on a Win 10-64-bit system.
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And if somebody went to all the work to create such a script and if you are correct that there is a large demand for it they’d be foolish not to charge for it. Xavier, what would you pay for such a time-saving script?
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I’m currently using a Scarlett 2i4. Two channels in which can be either mic or line. I’m happy with it. I’m a VO guy, too. I do have a couple of clients who like for me to use two microphones simultaneously, in my case a Sennheiser 416 and Harlan Hogan’s VO mic, a custom version by MXL. The logic of the producers is they like to have one close mic and one with a little more room ambiance.
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What is your preferred file conversion software to produce your intra files? I am working on a short corporate project shot with a GH4, which produces .MOV files.
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Thanks. I’ll try those steps.
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Stretching or shortening an audio track will change the beats per minute.
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