Interview setup -- sound issue
 

Here's a clip I shot today of a City Councilman, for an upcoming event. Bobbled the zoom a bit at the start, but I only had 2 takes, and this is the one...

Note the sound, in this somewhat "live" room (which was tiny, but the only room we could use). Anyone know of a good filter in Soundtrack Pro to take the curse off of the liveness of the room and the hollowness of the sound? Thanks.

http://www.mostlymagic.tv/demo/smith1.mov

i think for a start you can use a mono track of the video,
then start from there.

Sounds perfectly fine to me.

It's not like he's in a studio, but you can hear every word and the quality's quite good.

-Alex

I played with it some, got rid of a bit of the liveness... Thanks guys.

Revised sound:

http://www.mostlymagic.tv/demo/smith.mov

hey jeff...it's a two-way street around here.....so what did you do to fix the problem?

(btw, it sounds really good)..

Hi Barry: I used FatEQ in Soundtrack Pro, and fooled with the dials, dropped the top, punched up the bottom and it helped a lot, at least on the big speakers here. So much to that program, really need to learn how it works sometime instead of just trial and error!

Looks great, especially the lighting and you've done well correcting the sound. Just curious as to why you couldn't fix the audio in your editng app (FCP?), instead of having to go to Soundtrack?

Perhaps I could have made the same fix right in FCP, but I'm new to Mac, new to FCP, have a lot to learn there after years on Premiere Pro. That's why I took it into Soundtrack Pro, which of course I'm also learning.