two months ago I had no idea how to do recording and post production.
Today, I sort of
surprised myself with ... I dunno what you call it.... but I had a
thought. Being very
nervous about missing something, I spent last night making a spreadsheet
of all the
recordings we had to do, and then double and triple checking to make
sure I didn't miss a
section, so far. In doing so I found 1 missing scene, which later
turned out to be on
purpose and it was noted. The system worked. Nothing got skipped.
But in the process this thought hit me 'oh yeah, the guy who trained me
used to do post
production on the fly... I'll just do that when I get back to my
office.' Because we're
working at such a pace, that I don't have sit down time to do post
production. Well, I
really wanted to give my first day's recording a listen.
I'm REALLY glad I did. It turns out, that the timer they were using was
beeping and being
picked up on the mic. So at the beginning and end of each recording you
heard 'beep,
beep'.
So I took the timer apart minutes ago, and removed one lead to the tiny
'speaker' so now it
won't beep. And then, I had to go through and edit 126 parts and remove
the 2 beeps.
I learned a valuable valuable lesson this way, and I'm SO glad I caught
it quickly.
Because I'm making an audio AND video version of this movie, the post
production is going
to be very important. So any editing I can do on the fly is helpful in
saving time later.
So... this is what I do.
-I put the actor in his headset and adjust the mic
-Go back to my desk, have him say the line and set my levels
-Then I record his line
-I then check the video and move the file around until it syncs, or do a
retake
-Then I shave off the first and the last bit, normalize it and save.
-Then I double check the script, and check off that this scene has been
recorded in 2
places.
Doing all of that, takes about, 30 seconds. And saves me a lot of time
later.
In fact, if I had 2 hours a day outside of recording I could probably
burn a DVD while in
the village for them, except that being my first recording I want to
make it very GOOD and
so I'm not rushing myself.
It is at this point I want to thank everyone out there praying for me,
and ask you to keep
praying, because that thought popped into my head 'you have time now,
CHECK IT NOW' at a
time when I was hot and tired and would rather have helped working on
the translator's
house than sitting at the computer. Had you not been praying for me,
I'm pretty sure I
wouldn't have, and there we would be, with beeps in all of the
recordings from here on..
that's 1064 sections, and double that in beeps. So thank you all for
praying you saved me
a LOT of time!
