I'm shooting a last minute project tomorrow, and the client just told me that they wanted to shoot a little commercial "scene". It is too late to rent out equipment, so I'm going to be working with my sony vx1000, and an Azden WLX-PRO Lapel mic. I know this is not the greatest mic in the world, but I'm going to have to make it work. I want to make this look/sound as good as I can, and avoid the "low budget feel" as much as I can. I'm probably a lot pickier than the client, but my mic always sounds flat to me, especially when comparing it to a condenser. Is there any way to make the audio sound better in post, without losing quality? I have Soundtrack Studio Pro, but also have access to Pro Tools at my school. However, I don't know how to use either. Also, does anyone have any tips on overall post-production sound? I know I'm going to have to edit in a lot of ambient sound to make it look good, but this is sort of my first time at this, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Steve House
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Be sure to pick up a lot of ambience and room tone. on the location. Don't just edit in ambience but make sure it also underlays the dialog. Pay a lot of attention to mic placement and moniitor your recording - you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear with post production trickery.
pronghornproductions
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If you have a shotgun mic, I would run it off a long cable and place it near the subject, that way you will pick up ambient noise in one channel and the vocals from the wireless mic in the other, as said before you need ambient noise when you shoot or post production will be a nightmare.