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We were shooting a corporate video using two cameras, a close and a wide shot. Paul MaunderĪnother story which springs to mind is the one and only time we actually lost any footage.

TIMECODE CALCULATOR USING NORMAL TIME TV

Sounds like a bit of a moan but when high end tv egos come into play, nobody will compromise so often ADR is the only real solution. So we can end up not being able to get a boom in due to “creative” lighting so radio mics are often relied on when costumes are noisy, like armour, waterproofs, or stiff starched clothing with tiny ties etc etc. Often the Costume designers don’t want to compromise either. The usual challenges we have are becoming very common sadly as DOP’s, Directors and camera operators want to make a name for themselves and shoot exciting, experimental and visually stunning content that is often compromising the sound department.

iZotope RX 8 had never been so overworked. Unbeknownst to production sound their shotgun mic was capturing all the dialogue beautifully, but it was also capturing nextdoor's “goings on”. Working on a low budget horror feature, the scene being shot was in a hotel room, and in post not only was I trying to fix the usual: de-noise passing foot fall from the corridor, a horrendously rattly air conditioning unit, a fridge - which I’m told could not be switched off - but the couple in the adjacent room had taken it upon themselves to get amorous at the same time the crew were shooting. Not so much a location sound disaster rather an unnoticed side effect of production sound not listening too intently to what they were capturing. Jay Whittaker - Sound Editor/Dubbing Mixer He asked me if there was anything I could do to salvage it, to which I replied “Not unless someone has invented a stupidity inverter”. The mic had been in a Rycote windshield and it turned out that he’d pointed it backwards, making the audio totally useless. I couldn’t understand how it sounded so distant. He assured me that it was about 2 feet away from her, pointing at her mouth from just above. It never occurred to me that I might need to mention not to point the mic in the wrong direction but unfortunately that’s exactly what he did! When I got the audio back, it sounded like she was speaking from the other side of the room. I wasn’t able to attend so I briefed my colleague on a few points, such as minimising background noise and trying to find a spot which didn’t have too many reflective surfaces. The kit consisted simply of a location recorder, a pair of headphones and a Sennheiser MKH416 shotgun mic because that was the kit we had available at the time.

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The artist was not able to get to a studio due to other commitments so we agreed that we’d bring some portable sound kit along to a hotel they were staying in so we could record the VO there.

A few years ago we needed to record a voice over for a video.

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