Subject:Raising voice level without also amplifying noise

Posted by: phaelos

Date:7/12/1999 9:17:00 PM

We're producing a dramatic short "film", that was shot with
a digital camcorder (Canon XL-1), and edited with Digital
Origin's EditDV program. In several sections, one of the
actors' voice was too low, and raising the audio gain from
within EditDV has not brought his voice up loud enough.

Is this something that can be "processed" more effectively
using Sound Forge, while at the same time filtering the
ambient noise? Or will we have to re-record?

Thanks in advance.


Adam...

Subject:Re: Raising voice level without also amplifying noise

Reply by: melyash

Date:2/25/2000 9:42:00 AM

Although some boost in the noise floor is unavoidable, I found SF to
do a very, very nice job using the Normalize function. Used it for
the same thing several times.

Enjoy.

Matt Elyash

Adam Abraham wrote:
>>We're producing a dramatic short "film", that was shot with
>>a digital camcorder (Canon XL-1), and edited with Digital
>>Origin's EditDV program. In several sections, one of the
>>actors' voice was too low, and raising the audio gain from
>>within EditDV has not brought his voice up loud enough.
>>
>>Is this something that can be "processed" more effectively
>>using Sound Forge, while at the same time filtering the
>>ambient noise? Or will we have to re-record?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>Adam...
>>