Once you've got good solid scenes, you want to make sure to go through all of them with…a fine-toothed comb, and make sure you've got a good audio mix.…Now, even though this is the rough cut and an audio mix will be performed on the sequence…later in the post-production workflow, you still want to make sure that everything is sounding good.…Now, for a fuller explanation on audio editing, you can see my Media Composer Essentials course on lynda.com.…But here, I'll go through a basic overview of making sure you have got a good sound mix.…All right, so I've got the second scene here, my Meet BD scene, and I want to play it.…
But first I am going to open the Audio Editing Workspace.…And as I play this, I want you to notice where it's peaking.…I will tell you that normal sounds, so the human voice or BD's voice, should peak right…between -20 and -14 here on the digital scale, or between 0 and 6 here on the analog scale.…Loud sounds can peak higher in this region, and quieter sounds or background sounds can peak lower.…
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9/26/2012This course is part of a series that looks at Documentary Editing from the point of view of 3 different editors in 3 different editing applications. For more insight on editing documentary projects, take a look at Documentary Editing with Premiere Pro and Documentary Editing with Final Cut Pro X.
- Interpreting a creative brief
- Exploring the documentary postproduction process
- Organizing footage and using searching techniques
- Setting up and using digital transcripts
- Building sequences and scenes to form the rough cut
- Adding effects to repair and enhance footage
- Fine-tuning the sequence to reach picture lock
- Receiving feedback
- Finishing the film with titles, color correction, and professional audio
Skill Level Intermediate
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Premiere Pro: Documentary Editing
with Jason Osder3h 48m Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 33s
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Using the exercise files4m 36s
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1. An Overview of the Farm to Table Project
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Examining project assets3m 43s
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2. The Documentary Postproduction Process
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3. Organization Tools: Assembling Raw Materials
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Beginning a project10m 28s
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4. Script Integration
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Manually syncing a script4m 45s
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5. Story and Scene Construction: Telling the Story in the Rough Cut
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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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Correcting audio6m 22s
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6. Using Documentary Effects: Repairing and Enhancing Footage
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Stabilizing shaky footage3m 23s
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7. Picture Lock and Finishing
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Delivering the project7m 44s
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Goodbye
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Next steps1m 28s
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