Re: audio on videos

James Wrote:
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> hank Wrote:
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> > Most of the time when I watch a train video
> (esp
> > if I re-watch one) I turn the audio off. Errors
> in
> > narration, soundtrack obviously from a
> different
> > engine/day/etc, music that just distracts me
> from
> > what I'm trying to watch, all of these I just
> find
> > annoying. I'd rather watch a silent movie.
> >
> > Just curious if I'm the only one with this
> > (probably) weird habit.
> >
> > Hank
>
> You're certainly not alone! I likewise usually
> press "mute" when I encounter narration or music,
> particularly in modern-era video. I regard either
> as obsolete holdovers from an earlier era of video
> production (see others' notes about silent
> filming). I'll sometimes--not always--tolerate it
> in older videos. If a video has its original
> sound--be it engine sounds, crew talking,
> etc--I'll typically leave the sound on. That sort
> of stuff can be interesting. Dubbed sounds can be
> acceptable but rarely are.


I hate to think of how
> often I've heard the familiar public-domain Merlin
> engine flyby sound effect dubbed over for
> practically any propeller-driven A/C.

I am working on a Single Engine Warbird show. I have a few clips of a Corsair but the mic was crapping out and all I got was hiss.
So, if I even use it, the Corsair will have music, and be a bonus segment. The show has 4 P-51's and they all have their original audio.

Sometimes if the trains are far off, or have no meaningful audio, that's the spots where we would typically insert narration, or perhaps some music
to fill a void. Again we don't like to cover up good audio on stuff that was recorded with it. In our recent Big Boy show, there was a scene where it was just about
stopped, and I hit the narration, just before it blew the stop whistle.....why----because it was terribly distorted. You can still hear it some under the narration. Also we used a little
music and or narration during scenes that were really windy(Wyoming---the wind state), which is better to hear that than terrible wind noise. There may be reasons why a producer
uses narration, and or music.

Greg



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2019 07:37PM by Greg Scholl.