Voice over advice

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
April 19, 2017
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Hi Audition & audio novice question:

My friend recorded a 60 second voiceover for my animated After Effects school project using her Mac laptop's mike and Quicktime. Its very ok-ish to my amateur ears but I wonder what a pro might do with this recording in Audition? This aiff is what I have to work with.

I have only self-taught beginner skills with Audition and wonder if it could sound better?

I put it on Google drive - TobaccoLS2_edit_01.aif - Google Drive (Ive been active in Adobe forums for yrs, no funny biz) - should you be willing to listen —or even better, manipulate!

Thx

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jamesd48517352

Participating Frequently

Hi all, Apologies if this is not the correct place for this but Im new to it all so not sure where to post it. I am using the latest version of Audition, and have imported a bunch of dialogue WAV files in to clean up for a film. If I am looking at a single WAV file I don't seem to be able to apply the Essential Sound Panel to it. It seems I need to open a multi track? Is this correct? Is there a way to add the effect to the WAV file?

All I want to do is to create a preset to clean up all the files of dialogue from the scene I am working on and re-save/export the clean versions of the WAV.

If anyone could let me know how to do this it would be so helpful and much appreciated. I have spent the last two days trying to figure it out and can't!

Thanks

Bob Howes

Inspiring

I know it sounds counter-intuitive but to use the ESP you have to be in Multitrack View...even if you only have a single track at a time to work on.

It's not quite as silly as it sounds--applying effects in Waveform View is "destructive editing" in that it makes permanent changes to your audio. You can get around this by using Save As and renaming as you go but it becomes a bit cumbersome.

ESP effects are "non destructive" in that they're performed in real time when you Export your final version. Until that stage you can experiment with your changes as much as you want without doing anything permanent to to clips.

One thing I would say is that the Essential Sound Panel can be good if your material is okay to start with. However if your sound needs a lot of cleaning up, there are more...and more controllable...options in the Waveform View. However, it takes a lot of adjustment to get the best out of that.

Hope this helps.

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jamesd48517352

Participating Frequently

Thankyou for the reply. so I would need to do it in multitrack, and to save that version of the track what would I need to do? would I then need to do a mix down and save that for each track?

stefan_gru

Inspiring

I'm unable to download the AIFF file but I would recommend checking out the Essential Sound panel: Get started with audio mixing

Set the track to Dialogue and then play with the controls and hear the results.

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TheOriginal150mphAuthor

Inspiring

Ok thanks for the tip, will look into that. The download works fine so I'm guessing you have some local limitations.

stefan_gru

Inspiring

I was able to download the AIFF after all. (Jeez, the Mac's laptop mic was a terrible mic to use for recording the VO but you already know that.) I did some tweaking in the Essential Sound Panel in Audition and made it sound a little better. After you assign the track the Dialogue format, open Loudness and click Auto-Match. You could then try the Preset: From Outside a Building and then in the EQ section, adjust the Amount slider until you like it. It sounds less tinny that way.

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