Creating a "Talkie"

Post by **newmanauk** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 2:08 am

Hi,

I want to film a conversation by recording the sound on mini disc and using a clapper board as a point of reference during editing on the PC once I've got the film developed and transferred.

Can anyone give me any advice please?

Thanks

Alan

Post by **mattias** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 2:32 am

yeah, make sure you tail slate your shots as well so that you have a reference for time stretching if the audio loses sync. and don't think you can remove audible camera noise in post. you can remove it if it's faint by filtering frequencies and masking with other more natural noise sources, but if you can hear that it's a camera on the sound track, it will pretty much stay that way.

/matt

Scot McPhie · Post by **Scot McPhie** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 7:40 am

Hi Alan - there's info here:
http://www.mango-a-gogo.com/inmyimage/i ... htm#martin

ALso don't think that your motor will vary it's speed consistently - a start and end reference point may not work - because you can stretch the sound to fit - but the camera raate may not have varied at the same even rate - rather in fits and starts -- having said that it's not actually that hard to synch up dialogue manually on a timeline when editing - it's jsut a major pain in the butt!

Scot M
http://www.mango-a-gogo.com