[Troy Witt]

We are doing the same kind of thing… a total eTrade baby spoof. Bought CrazyTalk to do the mouth animating (from a still at each “scene”) and we’re using Motion to comp the mouth back onto the baby. It’s looking fantastic! CrazyTalk is the trick here.

Troy Witt, President
Take One Productions, Inc.
http://www.TakeOneDigital.com video production & webcasting

[Troy Witt]

Yeah, it’s not your file format that’s killing you, but the compression setting within that file. I suspect your AVI file was set to “uncompressed”, that’s why it was so huge. Try encoding the AVI file with DV/DVCAM codec or MPEG-2 (set to 6 mbps) and you’ll easily fit within YouTube’s parameters. The quality will go down slightly, but nothing that’s not already going to go down on YouTube.

Troy Witt, President
Take One Productions, Inc.
http://www.TakeOneDigital.com video production & webcasting

[Troy Witt]

I’ve read everything and everyone saying that it can’t be done, but it can be minimized quite a bit. With all of our digital tech today, can’t something “sample” the initial voice and remove traces/harmonics of it like reverb and echo?

I did a shoot where we had to shotgun all of the audio in a concrete ballroom. Location sucked. Thus, our audio sounded like it was all shot in a huge hall… and pretty unintelligible, too. Then, my audio producer mentioned that he had the SAME problem and fixed it by renting the Cedar DNS1000 from Bexel. Sure enough, we rented it and ran all of our timeline through it as a final pass and viola, fixed! Well worth the $100 rental and time.

Troy Witt, President
Take One Productions, Inc.
http://www.TakeOneDigital.com video production & webcasting

[Troy Witt]

I haven’t been able to find a plug-in or filter to do this, but I was turned on to an external box that did wonders and saved a shoot for me. It’s called the Cedar DNS1000. We rented one for about $100 locally. Buying the box is WAY too expensive. Give it a try next time you need to remove echo or reverb from a recording. I wish they could put their technology into a plug-in. That would be killer!

Troy Witt, President
Take One Productions, Inc.
http://www.TakeOneDigital.com video production & webcasting

[Troy Witt]

I had this same problem with a job we shot via shotgun in a large, live ballroom. One of my guys suggested trying the Cedar DNS1000. We rented it from Bexel for about $100/day and it worked fabulously! I even tried it on some music and it killed ALL of the reverb. The only trick with it is that you need to run live sound into/out of it, it’s not a plug-in… and it requires digital in/out, not analog. But we just borrowed a digital mixing board to do A/D & D/A conversion and it went great. Good luck!

Troy Witt, President
Take One Productions, Inc.
http://www.TakeOneDigital.com video production & webcasting