For a while now, I have presented different audio clips, with or without visual connection. When you do field recording, you end up with a lot of awesome sounds. Sometimes you would like that sound to be the sound track of some video.
So the first thought is to simply overlay the sound to a silent video track and present it as an old-fashioned slide show.
Then comes the time you whip out your cellphone to record some video. While I detest cellphones for still pictures, video is pretty good. The audio on that video is in most cases utter garbage. The rectangle in your hand will always present handling noises, wind noise and other disturbances. Making the video unwatchable. Now if only we had something to record undisturbed sound with…
In comes the sound gear we have gathered over time, in my case a Zoom F3, a set of Rode M5, a mic stand and last but not least, the newest acquisition, a pair of Bubblebee Wind shields. I finally took the plunge and spent nearly 200 CAD on a pair of these things. I must say that they haven’t disappointed me so far.
After setting up the whole thing, the key part is to make sure we can sync video and external audio. I removed it from this clip, but simply making 3 or 4 clicking noises close to all mics will do the trick. The phone with its miserable audio will show those clicks as spikes and the F3 will do the same.
Then comes the linking of everything. I use DaVinci Resolve for this, even if Adobe Rush can do the same thing. I line up the clicks, then mute the audio from the video/cellphone track.
After that, the transitions, fades etc are only a matter of taste that I won’t go into here.
There you have it.
Until next time…