Matching Audio

andythefilmer

andythefilmer

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Hi guys, so last weekend I shot a show at a club in Hollywood. The audio ended up not recording properly because I plugged into the mixer, but on their last song, I realized that the drums were not mic'd!!! So, now that I am editing it, I need to dub over with their studio recorded songs. Since each song is plus or minus a few beats per minute versus the studio tracks, how would I best match them within FCP? There are also parts that are slightly faster than the rest of the song, so how would I do that?
 
Not a whole lot you can do. It would take some serious work in ProTools and even with some drum replacement tracks.

Do you have any room mics that were close enough to pick up the percussion? Your only quick solution is to use ambients to fill in.

Another lesson in monitoring your production audio as it records, and setting up in time for a good sound check.
 
I do not have anything to replace audio, nor do I have ProTools. This was an on the fly situation and I left my headphones in my house. This was a relatively small room at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood; enough for just the snare and kick drum to be mic'd. The sound guy was drunk, and I had literally 5 minutes to set up two cameras, run stereo XLR to my DVX, white balance and press record. There is NO way I can do this?
 
the only way i personally think you can do this (from a similar experience i had) is to really do multiple cuts with the music....(assuming you had more than 1 camera)

if you DONT have more than 1 camera, you can always use B-roll

otherwise, its a really difficult to pull off

shawn
 
andythefilmer said:
This was an on the fly situation and I left my headphones in my house. This was a relatively small room at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood; enough for just the snare and kick drum to be mic'd. The sound guy was drunk, and I had literally 5 minutes to set up two cameras, run stereo XLR to my DVX, white balance and press record. There is NO way I can do this?
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I keep a backup pair of headphones in my camera bag. They stay there, and are only used if I need a second pair for a client or should I hurry out the door without my main pair. Granted, they're not as good as my Sonys, but they are for emergencies.

That said... did you not have an ambient mic set up anywhere?

Editing to the CD is going to be difficult if the live performance isn't consistent with the CD's bpm. You can try to keep the editing pace fast, and try to rely on cutaways, but it won't be easy and probably won't cover up all of the differences. And changing the speed of the video to match may help you keep time, but will have some less-than-desirable artifacts.
 
you can do this in sony's acid. grab the audio from the video recording and import it to acid. run the beatmap wizard which usually automatically starts when you import large audio files. when your done finding the beat of the song import the studio tracks and beatmap those then match them up in the time line and your good to go. they are now both on the same bpm and if you matched them right they should not go out of beat . now this will only work well if the band sang the songs almost exactly like the studio tracks if they changed some stuff around it might get a little bit goofy but thats where a little bit of editing and magic should come in.
 
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