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Jan Anderson · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:59 pm Post subject: My narration sounds awful!

Hi gang! I just saw that a video that I narrated has been posted to Youtube and my narration audio sounds like crap! Any ideas why that is? I sent them a very clean wav file. How disappointing. Frown

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ZsQX_b4NY

So much for linking it to my website.....

Thanks.

Frank F · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:38 pm Post subject:

Well there are a couple of reasons right off the bat... One) the compression level used was maximized by the YouTube compression. Two) Did you notice the music was not compressed? This tells me you may have under-mixed the music to VO levels.

There are several other reasons for this situation, but these are the top two.

Is there a way to change this before it becomes permanent? If so re-mix, use no compression and do a trial YouTube compression mix at your studio prior to sending the next version.

Good luck.

Frank F
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Jan Anderson · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your input Frank. Unfortunately, I only supplied the narration audio and they added the music and all other production to the video.

I've emailed them to see if they'd send me a dvd copy in hopes of better audio quality. I even offered to pay for the shipping. Smile

...but I'll wait and see.

Thanks again.

Frank F · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:44 pm Post subject:

Good luck. I would also check to what kind of ear the video guy uses to mix audio... "they see but the cannot hear".

My guess is he/she used the old technique of "drop this in and that should match, shouldn't it"?

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Bill Campbell · DC Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 621

That's a shame. The narration is good. Your voice is distorted, the music is not. Totally the video editors work.

The only thing you can do, in the future, is to send video VO at -9 db peaks maximum. Better too low than too high.
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todd ellis · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:59 am Post subject:

if you want it for your reel you could always pull the video from youtube, find some similar music and re-mix it yourself. i have had to do that in a similar situation. the video won't be much good (quality-wise) outside a web application, but it should work fine in a demo-size player.
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Bruce · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:45 am Post subject:

What a terrible thing to do to your narration. Methinks not all the Brazil nuts are in the trees.

What Todd said. Download, re-mix, and post it yourself. It will be a very nice demo piece for you.

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Jan Anderson · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:53 am Post subject:

Thanks guys. Good comments all around. Laugh

Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

Ask them to send you a link to the video on the web before it was uploaded to youtube. You can download it and save it.
It may be better quality.

Jan Anderson · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:20 pm Post subject:

Thanks Eddie. I'll do that.