I just now finished my editing of the exhibit I have been working on.
Edit time depends on what your end project is.
I can not edit for a broadcast sound in under 1 hour per 30 seconds.
If anyone out there can then you are great in my eyes.
We do different things with sound, not all have anywhere near the
same end product.
Think in terms of "construction", "remodeling", "renovation",
and "show".
The project I just finished was a construction. I put more than 150
separate Mono sounds into one exhibit. A seven min presentation. But
should I be asked to sell a companion CD of this sound it will be
edited to be no more than 10 stereo tracks wwith no overlap of sounds.
I remember Stan of this group looking at me strange when we first
met. I put a stereo mic in the water with a hip-shot guess on gain
while he was "point and shoot" for the sound with exact meter
readings. My first 90 mins. was waste. But I did get my sound. My
edit of over 200 mins on this night was reduced to under 3 mins by
the time I was done. Stan got his sound too and he spent most of our
time in just bs over the bumper. A hard one to call on which tech
was better.
Oh, on the other thread, I took the risk and put my exhibit sound in
VBR for the 8Traxx machine. I did a bandpass filter before mp3
compression guessing that the size would be reduced if I cut the
below 50 cycles and above 10,000 that I don't care about. I think I
am ok.
But I am still a rookie wanna be semi-pro.
Rich Peet
--- In "Neville Recording" <>
wrote:
> Evert;
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> I have produced six CD's of bird songs and am working on a
seventh. I agree with you, from my own perspective, the best
recordings are those that require no editing. I don't think I have
achieved the "perfect recording" , but a few of my recordings have
required absolutely no editing. I get a tremendous feeling of
satisfaction telling the sound engineer not to change anything. I
also add narration, to inform or build a word picture around the
subject. I think my productions are about 60% art and 40% science.
However, I always lament not getting a better recording of some
species. The poorer recordings, frustrate and linger in the memory,
more than the good ones. In other words, there is a personal
competative element to always try and do better recordings not edit
more.
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> John Neville
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