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| We are placing some audio commentry onto a movie and we have recorded it on a nornmal PC and added using CS4. Great but the sound quality is not that hot sounds a bit tinny/computer like. Can I get some advice on what we should be using.............. thanks Paul
Paul Brown
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Soundbooth is a fairly robust application and should not be the source of your audio quality issues. It's most likely the device with which you recorded the audio. What did you use? What kind of microphone?
Mark Kauffman
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What we have now done is rendered to a dvd from premiere to encore and when played through TV sounds much better. When played through PC with good speakers also sound better.
Paul Brown
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Ah, I see now.
Mark Kauffman
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Another tip, for future reference, is to playback a professionally recorded piece of audio (from a CD, downloaded, stock audio libraries, etc.) and use that to determine where the problem lies. If the pro clip sounds great and your file doesn't, odds are the problem is in your recording and that's where you need to return to improve it. Alternatively, there are some ways to "clean up" poor audio but they rarely work very well unless applied by pros who do it day-in and day-out (they can hear the frequency of the problem and make fine-tuned adjustments that would be near impossible for mere mortals like us).
If the pro clip sounds as bad as your file does, odds are the problem is in the playback (software or hardware). Then you would do what it sounds like you did: get your file to a proven system (i.e., one that plays audio well like your DVD player/TV) and make sure it is correct in playback there. Assuming it does, you need to address the playback issue.
Troubleshooting always starts with eliminating possibilities and narrowing down the problem to specifically identify the culprit. Usually it's not hard to fix a tech problem if you know what is making it happen.
Good luck,
Ramsey
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I did a fair amount of voice recording for a project and I purchased the M-Audio Microtrack hand held recorder and a M-audio Aries Microphone, it worked extremely well.
And I used premier to lay the audio on the video. Because the recording was so good I really didn't need to mess with it. I only added a noise filter and cut it up, all in Premiere.
Also, because it was a condenser microphone you really need to be in a noise free environment.
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