Advice needed with Audio Punchin-in workflows for News
by Jody Neckles
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Jun 24, 2009 at 12:59:58 pm
I'm testing a new FCP installation for a News Broadcaster and reached a major stumbling block with the recording of Voice Over in tight turnaround situations. Previously the broadcaster fully utilized the 'Audio Punch-in' functionality of Avid Media Composer but we are yet to find a satisfactory equivalent in FCP or Soundtrack.
The Avid workflow currently involves playing out our programme mix on Tracks 1 and 2 to our external mixer whilst simultaneously recording the Programme / VO mix from an external mixer on Avid Mojo i/p 3 and 4 onto tracks 3 and 4. They also record the clean VO from the external mixer via Avid Mojo i/p 5 and 6 to tracks 5 and 6. At any point the journalist could make a vo mistake so they would stop the vo recording and change the punch-in in point on the timeline and proceed to record over the required portion of vo with a defined playback preroll before the vo begins to record.
These tools ensure they can very quickly record vo and fix mistakes on the fly without the need for further editing. The broadcaster relies on this functionality for tight turnaround bulletins and without an equivalent toolset in FCP this could be reason enough not to make the switch to FCP :O(
To summarize they need the following features for voice over:
- simultaneous recording of 4 audio channels
- playing back the recorded track during pre-roll and then switching over to the inputs like a kind of EE operation
- defining the tracks for recording and overwriting the previously recorded material if you record the same part again.
Has anyone on this forum found a way to record VO like this on FCP or Soundtrack? Any advice would be gratefully received.
Re: Advice needed with Audio Punchin-in workflows for News by Jody Neckles on Jun 25, 2009 at 10:12:12 am
Hi Jerry,
thanks for you reply. The user manual was the first resource I checked, although there is information on Voice Over it doesn't address the needs of my customers workflow. If you have any experience with VO relevant to my post I would be grateful for some practical advice....
