My first Movie...

BruceTheProduce · 20th October 2005

Hey slutz, how is it going?
Well... I'm working on the audio post for my first movie, My colleague and I are doing all the stuff. ADR, Sound FX, Music editing and some of our own. There is a lot of music that we were give by the director and we are sync-ing it accordingly.We are close to start premixing and mixing it all up. Now, my question is, should we do anything to the music that we are sync-ing to the movie? I mean Like EQing, or anything that would affect the sonic quality of the song because it needs to be mixed for TV? this may end up sounding on a mono tiny speaker of a black and white TV. I don't know. Its my first time doing this. Any sugestions?

thanks a bunch

Jay Kahrs · 20th October 2005

If the music was mixed well to begin with and has already been mastered then I'd skip any additional processing. TV is TV is TV...assume the worst case scenario which is the local affiliate collapsing to mono and sending through massive AGC. Even with digital cable for some reason I'm getting MTV & VH1 in mono, but Discovery Channel and Home & Garden (I watch all those repair shows like This Old House) arrive in stereo.

I'm quite flummoxed by that.

joaquin · 20th October 2005

Hey Bruce Congrats!!

I personally, use EQ, normalization, compression or any means in order to get the best and most coherent audio thru out the whole project. Like Jay mention, double check your mono output...you can hook a TV as a monitor. I also recommend that you try to achive the smallest dynamic range within good sound and reason!?, so the compressors in the TV station won't have to work that hard...giving your project a whole new sound!?... automation is your friend! Maybe someone can tell us what's the dynamic range for TV air waves!?
Best of luck..................Joaquin.

BruceTheProduce · 20th October 2005

Thanks for the input guys

20th October 2005	#1
BruceTheProduce Gear maniac Joined: Apr 2005 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 184 Thread Starter	My first Movie... Hey slutz, how is it going? Well... I'm working on the audio post for my first movie, My colleague and I are doing all the stuff. ADR, Sound FX, Music editing and some of our own. There is a lot of music that we were give by the director and we are sync-ing it accordingly.We are close to start premixing and mixing it all up. Now, my question is, should we do anything to the music that we are sync-ing to the movie? I mean Like EQing, or anything that would affect the sonic quality of the song because it needs to be mixed for TV? this may end up sounding on a mono tiny speaker of a black and white TV. I don't know. Its my first time doing this. Any sugestions? thanks a bunch

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joaquin Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2004 Location: CHILE-Miami Posts: 1,199	Hey Bruce Congrats!! I personally, use EQ, normalization, compression or any means in order to get the best and most coherent audio thru out the whole project. Like Jay mention, double check your mono output...you can hook a TV as a monitor. I also recommend that you try to achive the smallest dynamic range within good sound and reason!?, so the compressors in the TV station won't have to work that hard...giving your project a whole new sound!?... automation is your friend! Maybe someone can tell us what's the dynamic range for TV air waves!? Best of luck..................Joaquin.