Editing voices and fist draft edit.
- charlotte2006lr
- Jan 23, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 4, 2024
During the editing process of our documentary's we can find what works best and makes the audio better during interviews. These are effects that can be added and changed .
Parametric Equalizer
Effects - EQ - Parametic Equalizer (drag and drop onto audio clip).
On EQ, go edit and change it.
Cutting heights makes it sound like your in a bottle, Cutting lows makes it sound like a phone call
To improve: Enable HP button, cut everything to 60-80 hertz. Boost lows to 100 Hertz. Boost the high frequency's to point you want it. If not great lower at the 200 mark
Single Band Compressor
Drag single band compressor onto audio clip.
Go to settings and do edit.
Select voice thickener in drop down.
Change the output gain to around 16 or when it doesn't peak in volume.
De - Noise
If there are faults use de nosier. Add to audio clip.
Go settings and edit.
Play with amount slider.
By cutting recording do this: Going to window, go to audio track mixer. Expand using an arrow showing the effects rack. And apply different effects.
When doing interviews with different settings, make sure the audio tabs sit on different track. Rename the tracks to what they need to be. And the effects on each renamed track follow.
Voices edit
I applied these three editing effects to different sections off this clip from the interview. At first I showed how the audio was from the camera. Just as the camera it was quite grainy and featured a lot of humming/background noises. This does not give the cinematic feel that we are aiming to have in our documentary.
I then added "Parametric Equalizer" to enhance the quality and give more dimension to the voice. I adjusted the settings. Changing the heights and the lows of frequency effects it by making the voice clearer. I adjusted this slightly just by listening to what I had and changing it to make it better.
After adding parametric equalizer, I added single band compressor to the audio track. By adding the single band compressor it makes the quiet parts and the loud parts a similar volume without effecting the quality of the audio clip. After going from parametric equalizer and adding the single band compressor there's a small cut in which the audio changes.
Finally I changed it to adding the de - nosier. De - noiser can help touch up any faults within the other edits. This can change it from being to spacey or not sounding right at all.
Overall, I think that the most difference one of the edits made was having the parametric equalizer and adding the single band compressor onto it. I will use this in my final edit.
Final interview edit
After looking into how to edit sound and audio I went on to edit my final first draft of my interview. We were asked to create a 1-2 minute documentary interview with b-roll footage. We focused ours on current fashion trends and choices. We also used a zoom mic to enhance the audio and make it better. We asked 10 different questions and then tried to pair the answers with b-roll footage.
We focussed our documentary on being conversational and having a host and a subject - the host asking questions and the subject answering them. We had the cameras off to the side so that the subjects eyeline was looking at the host and not at the camera.
We went out to film b roll footage and we gathered lots of clips of people around college and what fashion choices they had made. When editing I used a number of J & L cuts in-between shots and dialogue. To make this easier we used 2 cameras which were recording simultaneously, this helped keep the interview continuous and not choppy. When adding the b-roll footage during editing, I put the footage on top so that the audio still came through.
We were also asked to create "Foley audio". Foley audio is when you create sounds that can be put over videos to give them more dimension and better quality. We struggled to find any audio sources that would have worked well within our interview as it was just the subject and the host talking, hence the fact the b roll/Foley audio has just been placed at the end instead of over the interview. However this could have been put in well with our b roll footage had we had taken more thought and care into doing it - for example putting a Foley audio over the footsteps of people walking past. For a start in creating Foley audio and adding it to b roll I can take what I have already done forward and make it better.
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