SHORT: MYSTICAL CREATURE short

some sound isues:

left right middle, pan odd, even... watch out for that.

When the dad, sitting out of the screen at the right side, you can pan the dialogue from him a little to the right. But then you have to add some ambiance sound so that it stays "logic".

When he sits down with the paper...it sounds left only (the paper), and the mosquito sounds right but he's hitting left side...

For the rest it was funny
 
Hi Dre83

Yeah thanks for picking up on that it was one of the things I couldn't work out how to fix properly. I was using both channel on the Af100 through one input with different audio metering one set quite low for backup if one clipped.

But I realised when I went to edit the sound that it would all be one sided. So how do you go about fixing that? Do you just add filters for left and right and then have it so the vocals come out in stereo as well as the ambient. I'm very new to audio so sorry if that's a dumb question.


thanks again.
 
Using different volume settings is not a bad idea, but you have to take care what you're doing.

Thing is it can not be distorted, but it can't neither be to quiet... So what you can do is set one volume for more the "shouting" parts and another volume for
the "normal conversation" parts.

Then in the editsoftware you have 2 tracks mostly named "track1 and track2" which refer to "left" and "right".
The "track1" is panned left and the "track2" is panned right. So what you need to do is pan those to center.

It's better to have dialogue tracks mono (so they come out of the "ghost" center) and ambiances stereo (stereo means left and right have different information
a stereo recording of an outside atmosphere could have a cow at the left side, a sheep at the right side and someone shouting for help because he's drauning in the
middle)
Dialogues come out of the Center speaker in a 5.1 setup, with sometimes panned to left or right when someone is outside the screen at the left or right side.
So in a "2.0" (stereo) they have to come out of the center too.
 
another thing, take care of levels. Music doesn't need to "touch" the "0dB". Actually, don't watch your meters....

Normaly there's what is called "pink noise" which is measured by an SPL meter and then the pink noise has "level 0dBFS". (which is the peak).
Then the volume of the monitor is leveld untill the SPL meater sais (79dB or 82dB or 85dB) Which are different levels. For TV it's mostly 79dB), well at least here...

And then when this is set, DO NOT touch the monitor volume anymore... No, don't touch... hé, don't touch...no...don't....
So when it sounds to loud suddenly...it means you have to lower the volume of the track. And yes your neigbours will complain and yes they will call the cops and
yes you will end in prison and yes the food is discusting :-p

But when you don't have a SPL meter, what could help also is to import a song, level it up untill it's 0dB (take a pop, techno song because those are mostly compressed enough)
then play it untill it has a volume which in a scene would be "the apocalyps" of the movie. Loud music, something is going to happen...
That should be your "loudest part". (could also be an explosion for example)

Then don't touch the levels of the monitor anymore for about 89787 years. :-p
 
Great advice dre. I was trying to make sure the music didn't hit more the 6db.

I'm using Premiere so when I import the mono dialogue how would I make sure it's centred? Do I convert it into a stereo track and just make sure the channels are balanced?
 
Normaly you will have 2 tracks. Then you have to choose the best parts in the tracks and delete the other track of that part. Then just pan it to the middle.
 
Bubblegummonster said:
Hi Dre83

Yeah thanks for picking up on that it was one of the things I couldn't work out how to fix properly. I was using both channel on the Af100 through one input with different audio metering one set quite low for backup if one clipped.

But I realised when I went to edit the sound that it would all be one sided. So how do you go about fixing that? Do you just add filters for left and right and then have it so the vocals come out in stereo as well as the ambient. I'm very new to audio so sorry if that's a dumb question.


thanks again.
Click to expand...

This should help: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/digital-video-cs5/mapping-audio-channels-in-premiere-pro/
 
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