From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
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Marrying high-quality audio with video - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
Marrying high-quality audio with video
Many times, you'll be working with documentary interview footage that doesn't contain the best audio. However, perhaps the production team recorded higher quality audio with a different camera or sound recorder. Let's take a look at how to marry a video clip that contains poor audio with an audio clip of higher quality. Okay, so I have here a bunch of interviews of our main documentary subject BD Dautch, and if I go ahead and play this, I'm going to show you what this sounds like. (BD Dautch: ...certifying organization, and we grow about 100 different--) Okay, so obviously we can hear it, we could use it if we don't have anything better. But I was able to locate some audio that sounds a lot better than this. If I load this one, let's go ahead and just play this. (BD Dautch: ...and 5 acres in Carpinteria that we're farming on. It's all certified organic by--) Okay, so I actually pulled this from a different camera that was on him at that time. So instead of having to edit this into the…
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Beginning a project10m 28s
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Screening and assigning qualitative information to clips7m 3s
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Looking for stock footage using the Avid Marketplace4m 27s
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Marrying high-quality audio with video4m 54s
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Using the Find tool and PhraseFind to search the audio in a clip5m 58s
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Understanding transcoding4m 1s
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