I'm new to a gig editing radio documentary. This means a lot of the content is recorded with people who aren't used to having a mic sitting in front of them, and ultimately leads to fillers such as um, eh, y'know...
Often it's easy to remove the ones that are isolated from other words by a pause, but I'm continually being asked to remove instances that are 'tied' vocally to the words around it. e.g Iehwas at the shop...
I find the mouth shape used during these verbal strings make it really difficult to convincingly separate the words, and this results in unhappy clients.
The biggest issue is when trying to make a convincing sounding start of a sentence from something that wasn't originally a start. The dynamic change sounds unnatural. Gaining it down only works some of the time. And the start is often too sharp to use a crossfade without it fading up on the word noticeably.
I haven't the experience argue the case to the client, so I was hoping an experienced hand would have some tips or advice?
Thanks.