I haven't posted in critique for a while.
Virus
Couldn't hear a thing on my laptop, will try again later
Some good visuals that matched the words, the sound wasn't so good though.
A good rule of thumb when you're producing work for the internet is to crank the volume just a little higher than it ought to be in the editing. A lot of people (like me) will be watching on their laptops with their crappy little in-built speakers and won't be able to make out the sound otherwise.
Thanks guys.
Quote: David Bussell @ January 19 2009, 10:00 AM GMTA good rule of thumb when you're producing work for the internet is to crank the volume just a little higher than it ought to be in the editing.
Echo that. There's often a 'normalise audio' option in most editing suites that you can use. With the bag-of-bollocks camera I use, the audio is so poor that normalising produces hiss in the pauses. I literally have to export the clips individually to Sound Forge. There I first mute all the gaps or lower the ambience to 25% of the original. Then I either use Wave Hammer (a Sound Forge utility) which compresses the audio (flattens the highs and lows but generally results in a less dynamic though louder sound) or else I lower the larger peaks throughout the waveform before normalising to preserve the dynamic while still acheiving optimum sound.
You read my comments and rating on YouTube, WJFK?