News Production: Editing the Live Interview

I found editing the live interview to be quite tricky as I wanted to touch it up properly, but this was also our live element so could only edit in cutaways. The footage I had to work on feet almost beyond repair. The audio was disrupted with background traffic, and needed to be changed. We had a great interview, where Emma, our student nurse gave us all good answers, elaborative for each and every question, so to nether her properly wouldn't have done it any justice.

So my first instinct was to try and edit this in 'Adobe Audition'. I tried watching a few tutorials on how I may solve the problem, but had little luck in practice given I hadn't used Adobe Audition so extensively so fat. I spoke to Sam Creamer and together we went over a several solutions in order to try and fix the audio issue. The first was to apply a 'voice enhancer' where I would enhance the 'female voice'. Whilst this raised Emmas volume slightly, it wasn't enough to justify a good change. We then went onto doing a bit of trial and error work on the target volume level,  which didn't see any dramatic change and the audio was still disappointing. Because Fergus had a strong understanding of audio editing and he himself is an audiophile; it felt appropriate to see him next.

Like with Sam, it was trial and error with a lot of things. When going through this with Fergus Iw as able to learn and pickup a lot of skills I didn't previously have. Whilst shadowing him, I was able to gain a greater understanding of how audio works. In Adobe Audition; you are able to see every noise frequency and select and isolate some parts of sound. You can zoom into the Hz to get the closest, most accurate detail possible. The key here was to remove he loud/deep background noise without removing any of the dialogue between me and Emma. we reached just over 200Hz before our voices were picking up, so all of this was background muffle we could simply eliminate without taking our voices away.

Generic Hi-Pass

This was a great start and gave me confidence to carry on further to make the sound as good as possible. Since we were removing background noise there was a slight echo, and when watching traffic in the background you need to hear some of it to create good atmosphere.

The next step in trial and error was to use a 'Parametric Equaliser' and change the preset to 'Generic Hi-Pass'. This was the most simple  audio edit and turned out to be the most effective. The sound was significantly better and once more mine and Emma's voices were both clear. At the same time I was able to keep some background atmospheric music; it would've been weird to have traffic in the background but to not hear it.


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