SHORT FILM audio advice please

Forum,
I'm making a short film that includes a few scenes with a radio announcer. What is the best way to make it sound as if the voice is coming from the radio?
Is there some sort of filter I can use or something? Or should I just put my actor's voice on a CD and then record the voice again while playing through a CD player?
Thanks in advance for any tips,
treyvon

Do not rule out the "record to cd" route. Not only will you get a more authentic radio sound but you will also get the room acoustic that the radio is in. This will help the radio sound right with the action - make it sound like its in the same room as the action. It can often end up being the simplest and quickest route. Its all too easy to opt for the post production route and end up sitting in the edit suite (dub room?) for hours trying to make such things sound right.
This sort of stuff falls into the sound design/foley category really, and the pros go to great lengths to get this stuff right - its certainly not unheard of for them to go back to original locations to record sound effects such as foot steps etc. Its not all done in gravel boxes and foley rooms (though admittedly, a lot is!)

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Parts to Upgrade: Full system build
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Alex,
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You stated: "Full towers - in themselves - are worse for cooling"
Fact: That is one crazy indefensible statement!
I seriously doubt that you fully comprehend the differences and importance of thermal conductivity, heat capacity, conduction, convection, and radiation for you to make the statements that you have so far and these are the staples for discussing how heat transfer takes place.
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Hello all!
Not sure this is the correct place to post this. If I'm in the wrong location, please place this post in the correct location.
Forgive my bad english, ok?
Guys, I know there are many artists here in this forum, so I would ask for help for artists.
I posted a short film yesterday and for lack of time and knowledge of CG, my short film was amateur, I know.
I would ask a help to the artists here and ask how I could improve the effects of this short film?
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I filmed with a 5D mark 2 and mark 3.
I used the AE and Premier.
I'm sure your comments will help me produce something better next time.
It may be a tip, an article, plugins name, names of AE filters, finally, it will help the whole community, I'll put your name of credits as a thank you.
Thank you, I'm sure that everyone at least help with a tip, it will be of great value.
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The only effect that I saw that looked a little cheesy was the glowing eyes at the end of the film. It was a little too intense and could have use a little more finesse and some better tracking.
The film in general suffers from pacing problems. This is the hardest thing for an editor to learn. It needs to be tightened up so you just show enough to tell the story. I worked on a feature once that spent 6 days on location filming with a crew of more than 50 and a cast of 10. When the final film was released there were only about 4 shots from 6 days of filming final cut because all of that other material didn't contribute to the telling of the final story.
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Sounds like you have a very weak signal. I'd set away from PrPro and handle this in SB, or Audition. Listen carefully with a good pair of noise-canceling headphones first, and then test on monitors.
Are you working in mono, stereo or 5.1 SS?
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I keep a folder on my hard drive that is just filled with music of different types that I import from music CDs: classics, rock, pop, etc. It all comes in handy for background music in one kind of video or another, and gives me lots of choices and raw material. In fact, as Hollywood knows, the background music can make or break the video. Can you imagine all the tear-jerker scenes in the Titanic without the theme music, or the Ken Burns special on the Civil War without that special theme song he used? It's the music that sets the mood.
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I've got a 27min long short film that I shot on a Canon HV20 (in 24p HD 16:9 W/S) and I have been playing around with exporting as a Quicktime Movie but nothing seems to be working out too well! Just using standard settings gives me these HORRIBLE lines everytime the camera moves and defeats the purpose of shooting in 24p. Is there any video settings that anyone prefers out there?
Also, I need a version to upload to Youtube. Is there anyway I can get a 27min long film into 100mb without completely loosing my quality?
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Goat,
Details please.
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Describe "Horrible" lines, horizontal, vertical, wavy?
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