Various Problems--MacDV Digest #3558

[Ted Langdell]

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA


Actually, go find several seconds of uncluttered, ambient sound from 
somewhere in the same interview.  Stash that in one of your bins, and 
then add the appropriate amount of length to the inpoint of the sound 
bites to make it sound right.

I've had to do this on any number of productions, and it can work well 
if the audio was recorded without any automatic gain control.  AGC 
generally makes the audio level rise when there's silence.

In many production situations, a full minute or more of "room tone" is 
recorded so that the sound editors have just what you're asking for.


On Aug 12, 2004, at 5:31 AM, Macintosh Digital Video List wrote:

>> 4. Some of the sound bites start abruptly (in order to get rid of
>> previous sound fragments). Can I add a space of silence before the
>> sound starts? How? Is there a way to fake ambient sound?
> Go back to the same location and record ambient sound.  It will most
> likely sound very similar.
>