Tom Scoville
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When you Normalize an audio clip, You are just adjusting the overall level of that clip so that the largest peak hits right at zero, or 100% modulation. If all your talking head clips are on the same track, you can normalize them all and then make the gross adjustment for that track relative to music or sound effects with the mixer. Normalize is not a compressor so it shouldn’t cause any pumping of background noises. If you have a word that someone hit hard for emphasis that is pulling the level of the whole clip down too far, you can try cutting the clip into sections around that word and adjusting the levels of the sections of that clip. Hope that makes sense…Listen carefully for any snaps or pops on the leading edge of the razor cuts though. I have had to use very quick audio dissolves to solve that problem in the past.
Good luck,
Tom S
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Well, I do :30 commercials of all types and most of the time it
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I know your pain! PP 1.0 & Audition had issues with our DVD burners. It would not rip from that particular drive and it was a pain. We had to rip audio on another machine and then transfer onto jumpdrives. Now that they fixed things in PP1.5 we rip in Audition and then save as an MP3. We still have to make sure there is 2 seconds of silence at the end or PP will cut the audio off prematurely. I have never had luck with Media Player. You might try ripping with i-tunes. I think you can choose to save as an MP3 and then just drag it into PP.
Good luck,
Tom
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Bill,
To get rid of the hum you have a couple of options. You probably have 50 or 60Hz that needs to be squashed. The sticky part is that there may well be harmonics (120 Hz, 240 Hz, etc)that come into play. You might try applying the parametric EQ to just a clip on the timeline. It’s in the effects window, under audio effects. You will need to bring the frequency down to 60Hz, maybe lower, and set the Q to 1 or lower. The Q is the width of the slice you will be taking-a lower setting is better but will require more tweaking to get it right. Now grab that level slider and bring it down to maybe -12dB and if all goes well, your hum will be gone and you’ll still have some body left in the audio track. I have not played with the De-hummer but I’m betting it’s a notch filter with a few settings to tweak.
The level problem may be as simple as a few clicks. You can try right clicking the clip and select Audio Options, then Audio Gain, and click Normalize. This might be the fix if the levels are consistent throughout that clip. If not, you may need to slice the clip up where the level is very low and apply this same technique to each piece. Last resort would be one of the dynamics filters, like the multiband compressor. It’s a great tool but can create problems, like audible pumping of background noises, hum, and hiss. But for a good quality VO, it has become one of my favorite “flavoring” devices.
You can play around with any of the audio effects without doing any damage by simply saving your project under another name. Then, if you end up with something that sounds worse than where you started, you still have the original project. Coming off a long stint in the linear world of TV news, I love being able to play around without the fear that I can’t return to square one if things don’t work out as I planned.
Hope this helped….
Tom
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Hi All,
You had my curiousity peaked on this one so I dug in the manual and found the answer-according to Adobe. Looks like the multiple razor tool is no longer in PP but if you hold down the shift key you will cut all unlocked clips at once.
Hope this helps,
Tom S
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Steve is correct! Just hold down the ALT key before you grab the tail end of XXX audio to pull it over the other clips. Easy as pie! Now I’m hungry again!
Tom S