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Isolate conversation recorded in noisy cafe
As everyone else has said, noise reduction is the way to go, pretty aggressive noise reduction is all that will help I think. Thing is, if you want this conversation for sound bites or anything, it's ...
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Proper way to boom dialogue between two people
When both persons speaking are visible I memorize the lines while the actors practice (having a script at hand might be helpful) and pan the mic between both. If the scene is split into shot/ reverse ...
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Proper way to boom dialogue between two people
Do you memorize the dialogue and aim the microphone back and forth between the two people when their lines come up?
yes
This allow you to anticipate one's sentences ending and be on place for ...
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Is my dialogue premix too muddy?
To my ears, it does indeed sound as if there is too much build-up in the lower mids. I wouldn't say "muddy", but rather more boomy, boxy, or honky - those are three words I would use to describe it. ...
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Grunts, moans, breathing, etc
DX. It's either going to be production DX or ADR, both of which will end up in the DX stem for the premix.
Usually though, its going to be a matter of taste for the dialogue editor, who can work with ...
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Dialogue between 2 or more people
It depends entirely on the performance that you're getting from set and the overall sound that you can achieve in the edit.
Often, dialogue editing involves syllable, word and phrase replacement ...
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Making dialogue in a film louder in post production
OK, so if this is one of those utterly random class assignments where you absolutely 'must' do it with 'just an iPhone', the only way to really do this is to record your dialogue 'wild'. This requires ...
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Making dialogue in a film louder in post production
There are only really two ways of reducing the amount of background spill into your dialog track.
Expensive directional mic on a boom
Even more expensive noise-reduction software, eg Izotope RX 7.
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Dialogue Editing Workflow
Firstly, with any sort of sound post work on features, don't consider a feature length project to be one single timeline.
Best practise with long-form work is to split the project into "reels". This ...
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Isolate conversation recorded in noisy cafe
You can dramatically reduce the amount of background noise with Audacity's Noise Removal tool.
Highlight a section of the audio clip when the background noise is loudest and no one is speaking. Then ...
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How to record the audio of one person's reaction to another person's line without overlapping audio?
Would suggest these options:
let B tell a shorter, "essence" version of a dialogue line. More like a call to action for A.
queue the person from a distance, so the mic barely picks it up.
P.S.: I ...
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Need help for removing cloth rustle
Well, there are ways that a signal could be clean, i could experiment with that kind of noise removal.
Just to give an answer , there could be some ways you could remove this sound, one is to try and ...
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Need help for removing cloth rustle
I guess surgical operations in Izotope RX5 could help a bit, maybe Spectral Repair, but i can't be sure that cloth noise could be removed completely.
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Is my dialogue premix too muddy?
Well what Joseph Santoyo said is pretty right, i mean it can get you in the ballpark and have a decent sounding vocal recording, but in no way a serious one.
If you take 2 voices make a big Q around ...
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How to deal with extreme level differences in film dialogue
Personally, I don't ride the faders too much between single words. Only if 'longer' passages are quieter/louder I turn up/down the gain. Moving the faders within words should be avoided.
Until now, I'...
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How to deal with extreme level differences in film dialogue
Hopefully the boom operator knows what they are doing and are trying to capture the best sound and levels, letting the director know when there are noises that will spoil the shot, and coordinating on ...
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How to deal with extreme level differences in film dialogue
In this situation, two of your proposals are commonly used in conjunction :
ride the levels appropriately
have the boom operator pull the
microphone at right moments.
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Where should dialogue be hitting in dbfs?
I don't do a huge amount of theatrical mixing, but i have done a bunch of mixing for various media, so i'll try to help you out.
-20 to -12 sounds good, that's what i usually aim for with my dialogue....
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editing ms dialogue recordings
I would put all mid/side tracks into Pro Tools as stereo tracks, with mid on the "left" channel and side on the "right". That way all editing will be sure to apply to both the mid and side signals ...
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How do you combine boom mic track with lav mic track for best dialog?
Contrary to most here apparently, I find in reality I am often feeding a little bit of lav mic into the boom track to boost a word or sentence which is slightly off mic, or using some frequencies of ...
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Recording location dialogue
Supercardioids are most commonly used for interior dialog recording, due to their excellent side rejection, and pretty decent rear rejection characteristics. Cardioids and hypercardioids, with their ...
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