From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
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Adding natural and environmental sound - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
Adding natural and environmental sound
When editing a documentary, you are often working with footage that was not shot with the quality or the consistency of audio as its highest priority. Unless the material was shot with a dedicated sound recorder in the field, the sound from any non-interview shots were most likely just recorded with the onboard camera mic. Interviews of course are probably recorded with more care, and with a lavalier or a directional handheld mic. Now, sometimes rather than cutting in a lot of disparate audio from individual shots, you may want to find some blanket, natural, or environmental sound and use that instead. All right, so here I have my intro, and it's the radio edit plus my B-roll, so it's coming along. It's almost maybe at the rough cut stage. But we need some audio here. It's totally quiet when this starts out. (BD Dautch: There's definitely a movement happening. It's not just here, it's worldwide.) And the birds you hear there were actually squawking in the background of his interview…
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An overview of the rough cut process3m 38s
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Making the paper edit3m 9s
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Using a two-column script3m 33s
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Assembling the radio edit7m 15s
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Building scenes with B-roll9m 30s
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Editing process footage6m 29s
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Using montage and parallel editing to manipulate time and ideas8m 20s
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Adding natural and environmental sound6m 11s
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Correcting audio6m 22s
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Putting it all together: Completing the assembly edit5m 29s
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