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Marrying high-quality audio with video

Marrying high-quality audio with video - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing

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Marrying high-quality audio with video

Many times, you'll be working with documentary interview footage that doesn't contain the best audio. However, perhaps the production team recorded higher quality audio with a different camera or sound recorder. Let's take a look at how to marry a video clip that contains poor audio with an audio clip of higher quality. Okay, so I have here a bunch of interviews of our main documentary subject BD Dautch, and if I go ahead and play this, I'm going to show you what this sounds like. (BD Dautch: ...certifying organization, and we grow about 100 different--) Okay, so obviously we can hear it, we could use it if we don't have anything better. But I was able to locate some audio that sounds a lot better than this. If I load this one, let's go ahead and just play this. (BD Dautch: ...and 5 acres in Carpinteria that we're farming on. It's all certified organic by--) Okay, so I actually pulled this from a different camera that was on him at that time. So instead of having to edit this into the…

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