Still working on my very recent recording of currently over 6 hours of various guest speakers facilitating a training session with another 6 hours to record next weekend. This "video job" is more of an exercise in learning to record and edit audio for comfortable listening levels.
As mentioned in a very recent post about recording using vegas and a laptop getting noise, I've recorded in a small conference room about 20 x 30 ft, the speaker, who I mic with a laviler, and to record group questions, have three conference table mics on a long table in the middle of the group on a seperate table from where they are setting to reduce paper shuffling noises.
So, I'm able to control the ambient mics levels keeping the low or muted until the questions begin to roll at the end of each presentation, then turn up each one individually near the person asking a question. Works ok.
As the each new speaker begins, I adjust the gain to pick a middle point where the volume is comfortable.
So to the question.
Maybe I'm striving for too close to perfection, I don't know, but is there a way to average out the loud portions and soft portions coming from the laviler captured audio? There are times a speaker may look down at their notes, and of course their volume increases quite dramatically. Other times they may simply begin speaking softer, then unexpectedly get a little loud.
It's pretty much impossible to anticipate these changes on the fly while recording and I know how to use the audio gain line for each clip combined with an audio envelope, but I'm hoping for something that I might be able to apply for automatic averaging.
As mentioned in a very recent post about recording using vegas and a laptop getting noise, I've recorded in a small conference room about 20 x 30 ft, the speaker, who I mic with a laviler, and to record group questions, have three conference table mics on a long table in the middle of the group on a seperate table from where they are setting to reduce paper shuffling noises.
So, I'm able to control the ambient mics levels keeping the low or muted until the questions begin to roll at the end of each presentation, then turn up each one individually near the person asking a question. Works ok.
As the each new speaker begins, I adjust the gain to pick a middle point where the volume is comfortable.
So to the question.
Maybe I'm striving for too close to perfection, I don't know, but is there a way to average out the loud portions and soft portions coming from the laviler captured audio? There are times a speaker may look down at their notes, and of course their volume increases quite dramatically. Other times they may simply begin speaking softer, then unexpectedly get a little loud.
It's pretty much impossible to anticipate these changes on the fly while recording and I know how to use the audio gain line for each clip combined with an audio envelope, but I'm hoping for something that I might be able to apply for automatic averaging.