4-VideoLab-AwesomeAudio-Audio-Recording-and-Editing-1-2-3.pdf

VIDEO LABORATORY – AWESOME AUDIO

Audio Recording and Editing Part 1,2,3

In this video, we’re going to setup a piece of software called “Audacity” to

record my voice. I’m going to read a monologue in various tones, volumes,

and inflection. Then, I’m going to take that through my own personal audio

sweetening process and make it both production and distribution ready!

In this first part, I will show you around Audacity and how to record your

voice.

AUDIO RECORDING and EDITING using Audacity

• Audacity has many EFFECTS: Noise Removal tool will sample pure noise

from that area and then remove it from entire length of the recording

SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR VOICE OVER

• Adobe Soundbooth

• Audacity

• Garage Band

• Final Cut Express & Pro

• Adobe Premier

• Camtasia

• Screenflow

• iShowU

THINGS TO CONSIDER

• Basis of QUALITY you are going to record is defined:

1. 75% of your microphone

2. 20% of your environment you record in

3. 5% settings of audio recording software

• The software uses the CURRENT ACTIVE INPUT device found in

1. MAC – Preferences, Sound, Input shows the current device

2. WIN – Control Panel, Sounds, Input device

SETUP AUDACITY or any other software you choose

• Go to the Software Preferences of your software

1. Audio I/O panel , look at Recording section:

 Make sure the INPUT device matches your system INPUT choice

 Select ONE CHANNEL mono

 May use “Two channel stereo” only specific to sound noise

reduction plug-in (Bias SoundSoap) in Adobe Premier Pro

2. Default Sample Rate : (Quality menu) Highest 48000Hz for voice

 (any higher is overkill)

3. Default Sample Format : (Quality menu) Select 32-bit Float,

 CD quality is 16-bit.

 The More resolution you capture up front both in terms

of sample rate and bit-rate, the better off you’ll be

when adding sweetening effects.

 Ultimately will get compressed down into something that

your viewer can watch online

4. Click MICROPHONE dropdown icon and select “Start Monitoring”

and then you will see your voice is registering with Audacity

5. Hit record button

6. Record 7-10 SECs of silence(timelime shows dynamic activity)

7. Read monologue of your choosing

In the second part, I will show you how to effectively record your voice.

Read monologue of your choosing – Andy liked Ratatouille (2007)

THINGS TO CONSIDER

• Say THE TAKES: when stopped reading say TAKE 1, TAKE 2, ETC...

• Say TAKE UP FROM BEGINNING – Start over, breathe in, out and begin

• Say PICK-UP: Used when you want to continue right where you left off

• Say PICK-UP: when words are butchered while reading, start in place

• Varied the volume of your voice: Soft, loud, amplitude filters will

handle this during editing

Read Monologue of your choosing

• Breathe in, out and begin reading the monologue

• Andy is reading Peter O’Toole’s monologue from Ratatouille (2007)

• When stop reading, say the take.. TAKE TWO, THREE so when editing you

can easily find those places

• TAKE TWO from the top: Start again – Breath in, out and begin

• Reading sometimes varies volume and amplitude – Use EFFECTS or

Filters in the editing program to smooth these out.

In this third part, I will show you how to export your project and talk

about various other sound editing programs that you can work with

Exporting your Project

• Save the project

1. Click on the FILE menu and select EXPORT

2. You can fill out meta data information and then select OK

3. SAVE-AS dialog box appears, Change the title

4. Next drop down the EXPORT FORMAT and select FORMAT you want

 Many different formats available some are compressed

distribution files (MP3, AAC, etc)

 Select the AIFF , or WAV files (non-compressed formats)

• Default choice: 16 bit AIFF – Apple non-compressed

• Default choice: 16 bit WAV – Microsoft NC Format

 If you select “ OTHER ”, you will get a plethora of

uncompressed formats choices, You may select:

• 32-bit Float since we recorded in 32-bit Float

5. Once select the EXPORT FORMAT , Click OK

6. Navigate to the location where you want to SAVE

7. Click SAVE

Edit the file in Soundtrack Pro – comes with Final Cut Pro

• Many tools built right into video editor that will accomplish a lot

of what Soundtrack 2 does accomplish.

• Tools can be found in exist inside of plain vanilla scfeen capture

tools including Camtasia …

• Andy choose Soundtrack Pro to teach the class because of

a. A large VISUAL wave form view

b. Add the effects to this waveform in real time

i. You will see how they change

ii. Get a sense of how I am affecting the audio signal

• Editing is very easy

• Editing is cutting out the bad bits

• You set an OUTPOINT and an ENDPOINT and hit DELETE or hit CUT

• Now cut out all of the MIS-TAKES, PICK-UPS

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