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For those that use Premiere Pro, what do you use to adjust brightness / colour balance?

Previously, I have used 'Fast Colour Corrector', though I didn't adjust anything else - which resulted in slightly washed out colours in some cases. These days, I tend to use a simple brightness adjustment (and sometimes tweak the contrast as well), but I'm still not sure if I'm going about it properly.

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Any tips for voice overs folks? I'm having to do a fair bit of it an although I've a decent mic etc I'm having to use noise removal due to a lot of background noise I cant' avoid.

Been using audacity noise removal but feel like it deadens my voice. What do you lot use?
 
arc@css said:
For those that Permiere Pro, what do you use to adjust brightness / colour balance?

Previously, I have used 'Fast Colour Corrector', though I didn't adjust anything else - which resulted in slightly washed out colours in some cases. These days, I tend to use a simple brightness adjustment (and sometimes tweak the contrast as well), but I'm still not sure if I'm going about it properly.

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The autos in Prem CC aren't bad these days.
If you want to get into more depth with grading, you could try using DaVinci Resolve (there is a free version available). After Effects also isn't bad.
 
Azer said:
The autos in Prem CC aren't bad these days.
If you want to get into more depth with grading, you could try using DaVinci Resolve (there is a free version available). After Effects also isn't bad.
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I'll take a look at the effects of the auto contrast and suchlike first, then. I do eventually plan to add After Effects to my monthly plan, but not just yet.
 
Halfmad said:
Any tips for voice overs folks? I'm having to do a fair bit of it an although I've a decent mic etc I'm having to use noise removal due to a lot of background noise I cant' avoid.

Been using audacity noise removal but feel like it deadens my voice. What do you lot use?
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I had the same issue myelf for both YouTube and Streaming

I use VSTHost which does allows you to remove background noise, white noise etc and also control the mic gain and has a equaliser in to control levels which you can tinker with till your fully satisfyed. Be warned though you need to adjust it each time you open it, though this doesn't take to long

Pre software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfdGTx0vIQI

Most recent Video with the software dialled in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-dOdX6CIDA

Pretty clear the difference there I think?
 
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Halfmad said:
Any tips for voice overs folks? I'm having to do a fair bit of it an although I've a decent mic etc I'm having to use noise removal due to a lot of background noise I cant' avoid.

Been using audacity noise removal but feel like it deadens my voice. What do you lot use?
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Early on we used Audacity too but like you found it takes away too much from the audio... So for a while just did without noise removal (unless the background noise is really bad it tends to get drowned out by the game/music in the background anyway)...

But what really helped was switching to dynamic mics instead of a condenser... they just don't pick up background noise anywhere near as badly (think of a singer's mic at a gig, which has to resist the sound of all the other band members as well as possible)
 
On the subject of using, for example, auto contrast and suchlike in Premiere, once applied a red bar is evident in place of the yellow one on the timeline. When playing the footage, the performance then becomes very choppy. I have read that this can be something to do with a machine not being powerful enough to resume smooth playback, which in my case would seem ridiculous.


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tcfreer said:
Pre software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfdGTx0vIQI

Most recent Video with the software dialled in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-dOdX6CIDA

Pretty clear the difference there I think?
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What mic did you use for the recording, and what is your mic technique like?

I'm just curious because the main thing to my ear is that your "raw" recording sounds like it has quite bad signal-to-noise ratio - could just mean you need to either get a bit closer to the mic or speak slightly louder with a little more force; you might then find that the volume of your speech is high enough above the noise that you can set your levels etc. without the background noise being a problem

Don't take this as an attack - I also agree the 2nd clip after processing sounds a lot better - but there can be more than one way to get there if you get what I mean!
 
I just use a Corsair 1500i headset @Rufus

I've not yet bought a proper mic set up - but it's on my to do list once funds allow.

I'm not a lou speaker, so I do need to boost the mic gain.

It picks up lots of white noise and static, which I use VSTHost to clean out on the low level
 
Halfmad said:
Any tips for voice overs folks? I'm having to do a fair bit of it an although I've a decent mic etc I'm having to use noise removal due to a lot of background noise I cant' avoid.

Been using audacity noise removal but feel like it deadens my voice. What do you lot use?
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I run all my mic audio through noise removal in real time through adobe audition using virtual audio cable, works a bit better than audacity. The mic is only from a microsoft webcam, so listen to my latest video and see what you think of the quality
 
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I just use a Corsair 1500i headset @rufus

I'm not a lou speaker, so I do need to boost the mic gain.

It picks up lots of white noise and static, which I use VSTHost to clean out on the low level
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Have you had a go doing a few test recordings forcing yourself to try and speak up a bit just to see what difference it makes? Having to boost the gain is what really hurts you with the background noise, and although it sounds like VSTHost is doing a better job than Audacity does it's probably still affecting the sound of your voice...

Does VSTHost have the option to "isolate" rather than "remove" the background noise? Audacity lets you do that and that way you can listen to what it thinks is "noise" - when I did this in our old recordings I could hear that there was a lot of certain frequencies of the vocals being removed and it led to a noticeably less full sound when removed from the raw recordings (pushing the noise removal further it eventually would sound even weirder like almost underwater)

A more dedicated mic with a better pre-amp will help, but it'll stil suffer from static/noise if you're not creating a big enough difference between the volume of that noise and your voice (the main cause of our noise earlier on wasn't so much talking quietly, but having the mic too far away since there were two of us trying to speak into one mic it was hard to get close enough)
 
I'm not sure if it has that option

It does have something called subtract on on of the panels which is what I use to clean the sound

Coming in it sounds like a old lp record gramphone, hisses, pops, what I think we term as white noise and static.

After, it's just dead silent till I speak.

I'll screen shot it when I set up to stream tonight and post the images here for peeps to see

There is also a really really good video on Youtube -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIv3gdF9l5M

I used this as a early guide.

I am starting to listen abck to my recording's, as well as setting the VC to transmit at the start so I can hear it in my own headphones to check the sound
 
Judgeneo said:
I run all my mic audio through noise removal in real time through adobe audition using virtual audio cable, works a bit better than audacity. The mic is only from a microsoft webcam, so listen to my latest video and see what you think of the quality
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Cheers mate

I had a play around, seems that having my door OPEN improves the recording. I'm in a small room and although there's furniture in it I think sounds were just being bounced off the wall as I spoke. Doesn't help that there's usually seagulls sat on the roof above me so I also re-recorded the audio at night when they'd gone :p
 
arc@css said:
On the subject of using, for example, auto contrast and suchlike in Premiere, once applied a red bar is evident in place of the yellow one on the timeline. When playing the footage, the performance then becomes very choppy. I have read that this can be something to do with a machine not being powerful enough to resume smooth playback, which in my case would seem ridiculous.


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Unrendered sections in the timeline are marked yellow and red, typically after applying an effect or LUT.

You can render these sections (individually or collectively), which makes playback/transport responsive again.
There are several ways to do this; the easiest is just to mark in/out the area desired to render, then navigate to Sequence > Render Effects In to Out and/or Render In to Out.

I presume you have pointed the Mercury playback engine to your graphics card?
 
I really need to vent this after last night so apologies guys.

As you know, besides Youtube, I live stream through Twitch, and have a bigger following there then in Youtube, currently.

Last night I had someone who watches me decide they were going to try streaming, and proceeded to ask questions to set up etc, which I don't mind helping with.

However they then turn around in the middle of my stream and tell people to come and watch them instead!!!

Its annoyed me massively!! Its just down right rude!
 
tcfreer said:
I really need to vent this after last night so apologies guys.

As you know, besides Youtube, I live stream through Twitch, and have a bigger following there then in Youtube, currently.

Last night I had someone who watches me decide they were going to try streaming, and proceeded to ask questions to set up etc, which I don't mind helping with.

However they then turn around in the middle of my stream and tell people to come and watch them instead!!!

Its annoyed me massively!! Its just down right rude!
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lul, that's one way of getting banned.
 
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