Friday 29 April 2016
Where i have my story locked, i’ve now started editing in sequences to the story
Whilst editing in my sequence, i’m also working on the audio at the same time so that it is not left until the very end, as the audio is as important as the picture itself. The mix down i’ve done on the sync assembly is a pre mix down, so that by the time that i have a picture lock and grade, i can import then master the audio inside premiere for a final mix down, compressing the interview audio so that it sounds crisp and clear, mixing it in with the various sound tracks and audio foley within the portrait documentary.
Audio Mixdown
-Pre mix down
So that i could effectively edit the audio, i switched off all of the images, so that i could only see the audio section and the wave frequency, allowing my machine to work a lot faster.
How i’m mixing down my audio is, i’m doing a first mix down in adobe premiere, using the gain tool to control my audio levels so that it’s not peaking and overpowering the main audio, plus using the fade in and also the pen tool to key in audio fades, so that the audio is not harshly cutting in.
Whilst cleaning up the audio, i also went through the interview, removing out any repeated words, and some ‘ums’ and ‘ahh’s’, making sure that it sounded clean.
What i done to clean up certain jump cuts in the audio which i had edited during the interview was, i would use fade in edits with the pen tool to avoid the harsh cuts of the audio peaking on certain words, so for example, if i edited out a word that was said during a sentence and moved next piece of dialogue closer, so that you wouldn’t notice the edit, i would fade in the dialogue with the pen tool so that it sounds like a natural sentence.
During the edit, where i had already purchased my music, whilst laying out the music, i also edited some of the soundtracks to make them longer. How i done this was, i found the specific parts of the tracks that i could loop and chopped them at the specific bar region then copy and pasted the audio, then, using the pen tool i faded in the audio so that you would not notice the editing of the track.
Here’s an example where i took a track that was 1 minute long and looped it to 5 minutes long
