A large amount of the material that we have recorded so far was not put into the main Cubase project in time for the presentation. The pre-mix sounded very sparse and represented a massive underachievement for the group.
A more in-depth analysis and evaluation is in the pre-mix report.
Thursday 13 March 2008
Monday 3 March 2008
SESSION 11 - MON 03.03.08
EDITING SAMPLES FOR KONTAKT
I spent most of the session today cutting up the 45-minute wav file which I recorded from the MD into Audition on Thursday. I have been splitting the file up into separate sample files, which I will then batch-process later. I have left a gap of silence on either side of each sample to allow me to capture a noise profile where noise reduction is necessary.
KONTAKT TUTORIAL VIDEOS
Having watched some of the tutorial videos I am now better aware of the available utilities in Audition which I will be able to use to my advantage. So far I have decided not to use the Auto-Cue to find the phrases as my samples are all very different in type and I will have to spend time going through all of them anyway to adjust the start and end points of the phrases.
Next studio session is Wednesday 10:30-17:30.
I spent most of the session today cutting up the 45-minute wav file which I recorded from the MD into Audition on Thursday. I have been splitting the file up into separate sample files, which I will then batch-process later. I have left a gap of silence on either side of each sample to allow me to capture a noise profile where noise reduction is necessary.
KONTAKT TUTORIAL VIDEOS
Having watched some of the tutorial videos I am now better aware of the available utilities in Audition which I will be able to use to my advantage. So far I have decided not to use the Auto-Cue to find the phrases as my samples are all very different in type and I will have to spend time going through all of them anyway to adjust the start and end points of the phrases.
Next studio session is Wednesday 10:30-17:30.
DIALOGUE EDITING - SAT 01.03.08
I came into the labs at about 12pm until about 6:30pm on Saturday to clean up the dialogue that we have recorded so far, particularly the parts we recorded on Wednesday (27th).
We had several takes for many of the lines so I had to pick out the best take for each line. In some case this meant cutting up the takes and combining them i.e. picking out the best phrases and editing them together to sound natural. In most cases I chose the take which we agreed in the studio was the best one.
For the parts that needed to be synced to the video, they were recorded in the studio to the video and so were mostly quite well synced already. However, some of the phrases we slightly early or late (either due to actors not being able to the character's mouth movements clearly on the studio screen or because the takes with the best acting weren't necessarily the tightest ones sync-wise) and so needed to be split and adjusted to fit properly.
I also tidied up the Cubase project file and organised the dialogue into folder tracks so that they will be easier to mix and to avoid having to sort through takes later. For some phrases/lines I have kept a second (good) take on an 'Option' track in case the other members of the team think we need to use a different take to the one I've chosen.
We had several takes for many of the lines so I had to pick out the best take for each line. In some case this meant cutting up the takes and combining them i.e. picking out the best phrases and editing them together to sound natural. In most cases I chose the take which we agreed in the studio was the best one.
For the parts that needed to be synced to the video, they were recorded in the studio to the video and so were mostly quite well synced already. However, some of the phrases we slightly early or late (either due to actors not being able to the character's mouth movements clearly on the studio screen or because the takes with the best acting weren't necessarily the tightest ones sync-wise) and so needed to be split and adjusted to fit properly.
I also tidied up the Cubase project file and organised the dialogue into folder tracks so that they will be easier to mix and to avoid having to sort through takes later. For some phrases/lines I have kept a second (good) take on an 'Option' track in case the other members of the team think we need to use a different take to the one I've chosen.
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