My Survey Advice for Magix Sound Forge Pro
I am sharing my suggestions with you on my recommendations on a survey I filled out for Magix on how to make their audio editing software better for all-in-one filmmakers. They are stressing all of their efforts for music composers and forgetting the rest of the post audio world.
Small time filmmakers work with very small budgets and most of the time can't afford professional help. We often get beginners and not so talented help. Thus, lots of mistakes happen during filmmaking and as much as we try to avoid it, "fix it in post" is all we can do.
When dialogue needs to be ADRed, how often do we not have the proper background or room tone because someone forgot to spend the few minutes to record room tone in every new environment and we have to rely on stuff from public domain websites, or Sound Soap to remove noise, or buy special audio effects filters for fixing dialogue to match it's proper environment? I am hoping Magix can come up with audio filters for making ADR sound like it is indoors, outdoors, in the woods, in a cave, in a spaceship, a submarine, and a hospital.
More pitch and time duration tools to use dialogue from other parts of a film that came out better to fix unusable recordings in other scenes.
Obviously, indoor recordings are easier to control the environment than outdoor recording, except in busy neighborhoods with constant fire trucks, airplanes, and police cars with sirens passing by.
Small filmmakers either have to make friends with people who own sound recording studios, or make their own if they have the space and resources.
I also asked for plugins integration with all major NLE software on both Mac and PC platforms because they have versions for both, even though the survey was for PCs.
If you want to make better films, realize these are your shortcomings that you can't control. And, only fix what is in your control to fix. And, if you are aware of these problems, you don't need feedback on them. Because there's nothing you can do to improve them with limited resources.
I am sharing my suggestions with you on my recommendations on a survey I filled out for Magix on how to make their audio editing software better for all-in-one filmmakers. They are stressing all of their efforts for music composers and forgetting the rest of the post audio world.
Small time filmmakers work with very small budgets and most of the time can't afford professional help. We often get beginners and not so talented help. Thus, lots of mistakes happen during filmmaking and as much as we try to avoid it, "fix it in post" is all we can do.
When dialogue needs to be ADRed, how often do we not have the proper background or room tone because someone forgot to spend the few minutes to record room tone in every new environment and we have to rely on stuff from public domain websites, or Sound Soap to remove noise, or buy special audio effects filters for fixing dialogue to match it's proper environment? I am hoping Magix can come up with audio filters for making ADR sound like it is indoors, outdoors, in the woods, in a cave, in a spaceship, a submarine, and a hospital.
More pitch and time duration tools to use dialogue from other parts of a film that came out better to fix unusable recordings in other scenes.
Obviously, indoor recordings are easier to control the environment than outdoor recording, except in busy neighborhoods with constant fire trucks, airplanes, and police cars with sirens passing by.
Small filmmakers either have to make friends with people who own sound recording studios, or make their own if they have the space and resources.
I also asked for plugins integration with all major NLE software on both Mac and PC platforms because they have versions for both, even though the survey was for PCs.
If you want to make better films, realize these are your shortcomings that you can't control. And, only fix what is in your control to fix. And, if you are aware of these problems, you don't need feedback on them. Because there's nothing you can do to improve them with limited resources.