kozikowski wrote:So you're trying to record a conference ...
Not really, just sometimes it gets similar. There may be ocassional questions from the audience to the speaker, and sometimes a brief discussion may spark. But mostly, it is an interview-like recording of two people only.
kozikowski wrote:There is only one good way to shoot that given you don't have supervisory control of the performance ... or a crew. Give up trying to capture theatrically perfect and use an actual conferencing system with Auto Duck, Noise Reduction and Echo Cancellation built in. There's just nothing like a recording system that "knows" what a voice is.
That would be probably nice, but completely beyond my budget. I'm not a pro, and it is a non-profit activity.
kozikowski wrote:It may seem like a good idea to go down a performance correcting it word by word or phrase by phrase, but if this goes beyond an interesting hobby, that will get old in a hurry.
Agree. But I do it once every few months - as a hobby, kind of. Frequent enough to think about the workflow, but not something I would do for living.
kozikowski wrote:Press Stop at the end of the performance, cut off the messy ends, adjust volume a little and post the finished show.
Thats basically how I do it now. Just looking for some realistic way to further improve the result, if feasible.
kozikowski wrote:There was a recent posting from someone who was correcting his audiobook ..... word ... by ... word. That may take longer than the person who wrote the book. Not likely to last past one reading and not viable if you're too close to retirement.
Absolutely agree. But with AutoDuck, it seems to me now that what I want might be automated easily, so I plan to give it a try.
