Dead Air

[drfaustmd]

Hello, I'm sorry if this question has been asked before. I looked around and didn't see anything...

But anyway, basically I made a film that is now in the editing stages. Its almost done and sound is the last thing that really needs to be fixed. There is a few shots in which I had to cut out the sound due to unfixable background noise. But now you can obviously tell the difference between shots because one has the usual dead air sound and then the other shots have no sound what so ever. What do I do to make this more unnoticable? Do I just find some dead air and overlay it? How would I even go about doing something like that? I'm using Adobe's Production Studio and I also have Audition. I don't own a mac so Final Cut Studio is out of the question. Thanks for any help in advance!

 

[grant-o]

I may as well repeat this. Always, always, always get room tone during filming. It saves you in instances like this and allows looping as well. In your case I'd suggest trying to go to a space as similar as the one you were at before and recording room tone. It won't be perfect, but it may work.

 

[Noiz2]

Well the first step is... hire a sound person.
OK to be a bit more constructive. go and find areas where you have "dead air", it's called Room Tone, and copy them into the places where you have holes.
This would be much less of a problem is you were doing an audio post since most of that room tone would be replaced with "designed" (I'm using that word to indicate that grabbing a track off a FX CD and dropping it over production is not what I'm talking about) backgrounds. But you can at least fill the holes.