rec.arts.movies.production.sound

If you can obtain a copy of the specific pop music recording that was
playing in the background, can you use it to do some phase-canceling
in post? If it works please let me know! Good luck.

On Sep 24, 8:38 pm, "Richard Crowley" wrote:
> wrote ...
>
> > Richard, here is a link to a 15 second clip of the scene.
>
> > I'd be very interested to see how you approached it.
>
> /media/
>
> I tried two different types of processing..
>
> 1st phrase: I used the "Effects / Noise Reduction / Noise Reduction"
> function. I took a sample of the noise from the end of your example
> (but not including the "clink" sound!). And then I used it at 90%
> strenth to "reduce" the noise. The result was a bit "metalic sounding"
> (which is to be expected). But IMHO, acceptable as the background
> with a translation over the top.
>
> 2nd phrase: I used the "Effects / Amplitude / Dynamics Processing"
> and tuned the threshold to eliminate most of the noise except
> during the speech. I used soft splines to avoid a really harsh
> switching profile.
>
> 1st & 2nd phrase: I added some pink noise to mask the hard
> silence between phrases. This makes it less obvious that some
> hard processing was done.
>
> Remainder of sample cut: No processing (for comparison).
>
> I just did a couple of quick-n-dirty processing tests to your
> sample. The same kind of attention I would give it if it were
> a small part of a larger job. Note that if this were the primary
> track (rather than the background under a translator), this kind
> of processing might not be good enough depending on the
> expectations of the production.
>
> I used Adobe Audition which is essentially identical to
> Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro. The same features are available in
> more recent versions of Adobe Audition (and in Adobe
> Premiere also, at least most of them).
>
> For my taste I would use the first ("Noise Reduction") method
> as it tends to also eliminate some of the music even during
> the speech (but at the cost of a more "metalic" sound). This is
> not what I originally suggested because each case is different
> and you never know how well that "active noise reduction" will
> work without actually trying it. Sometimes it just makes things
> worse.