Should I put in clipped audio, if the emotional acting is better?

[ironpony]

Okay thanks. I thought about replaceming with other takes, but the other audio takes, just aren't as good, acting wise, but not bad. Does clipped peak restoration really work though? It's just some of those plugs ins really don't work well in my opinion, but I'll give it a shot.

As far as having my pro fix this, he said that clipping is one of those things that is impossible to fix on a lot of cases, and fixing it pretty much a joke in most cases.

Some of those takes you heard in the sample, though. A lot of times when the woman screams I was able to mix right, and the levels do not go about 6. But then when she gets quiet in between screams, her voice goes below 15db, and I have been told over and over to get the audio between 15db-5db about. So can I use it if it goes below 15?

 

[paulears]

When peaks get flat-topped, the data is simply not present, so the software simply attempts to produce something that isn't as nasty.

I'd be quite happy with that clip - there are a few rough bits, but the usual software can make it less crunchy. However - I was really expecting something dreadful, and this isn't. Touch it up and move on. Plenty of cinemas in my own area have very poor audio systems that distort on peaks normally - so I'd not be that worried.

Can I ask a question on American vs UK English. What we here call cinemas are called theaters in the States, so what are our theatres called in America?

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

When peaks get flat-topped, the data is simply not present, so the software simply attempts to produce something that isn't as nasty.

I'd be quite happy with that clip - there are a few rough bits, but the usual software can make it less crunchy. However - I was really expecting something dreadful, and this isn't. Touch it up and move on. Plenty of cinemas in my own area have very poor audio systems that distort on peaks normally - so I'd not be that worried.

Can I ask a question on American vs UK English. What we here call cinemas are called theaters in the States, so what are our theatres called in America?

We use the term 'theater' when referring to the building for both film presentation and live stage play.

However, if one says something like 'I like going to the theater'... it usually means 'stage plays'... for movies, one would say "I like going to the movies".... one would probably say 'I'm going to the movies at the theater across town'... if one was talking about a movie presentation.

"Cinema" is almost never used in 'common speech', it would be more likely used by film students if at all. Using it would be a marker for 'oh, you're not from around here'...

One may also hear 'moviehouse' on rare occasions.

This probably has to do with how 'movies' entered the american consciousness, that is small towns may have had only one place where performances such as plays, music, and vaudeville took place. Movies 'moved' into that building... A number of old movienhouses were actually converted 'theaters' in the live event sense... and now have been reconverted back to stage play or music venues... well that or churches...

There is also the issue of 'theatER' vs. 'theatRE'... the use of 'theatre' is usually seen as either referring specifically to 'stage plays'... or an attempt to upgrade the movies to some sort of art for refined tastes...

My 'native' dialect of American is Southern California, with influences from Arizona-New Mexico-West Texas, and because of my mother and grandmother an occasional expression or word from the Philadelphia region.