Voice over Recording

I want to record voice-overs (VO) in soundbooth. I have watched the Prem Pro and Soundbooth tutorial at Lyndia .com. I can successfully record a VO recording, but nowhere in the tutorial do they tell you how to import the prem pr timeline. All tutorials already had timelines imported. I have an edited timeline that I want to import into soundbooth, so I can watch the timeline while I record my VO. Do I have to somehow convert the timeline to a different format than the timeline currently is? My sndbth workspace is set up to show the video window. How do I import the timeline or can I record VO directly to the PremPro timeline? Thank you for any help, as I am relatively new to these programs. I have version CS4. Jean Matusik

Thanks for the info Jarrod. I successfully recorded a VO in PP CS4 a couple of days ago. Then, I processed the VO file in the timeline. Thanks though. Jean Matusik

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Hi TeeKayCC,
Please check the forums thread below which has the same discussion. Hope it helps.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1359900?tstart=60
Regards,
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Welcome to discussions!
is your exernal drive formatted Mac OS X Extended? it should be.
Try using Apple's Disk Utility to format the drive. However, when you reformat you will lose all files on the external drive in the process.
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How about a switch you throw to turn on a recording light in the booth? I think less tech here is likely better.
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Voice Over Recording Edit view vs Multitrack View

Hi Guys, need some advice here.
I have always recorded Voice Overs in edit view with Audition 3.0 (Windows 7 64bit)
Recently I purchased a Creative sound card (X-Fi Titanium HD) which sounds great and records 24/96Khz with great results using several different microphones, mainly a EV RE20.
I have the main outputs of my mixer left and right coming out using 1/4 inch cables and going into the soundcards Aux left and right inputs via RCA..
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Not using the mic input on the card because I wanted to use the RCA ins (Left/Right) on the soundcard and the mic input is a single 1/8 input which would require another Y 1/4 to 1/8 cable and the fact that I have had issues with 1/8 inputs before.
So, when I record Voice Overs in edit view, I think I"m really getting only half the signal (Aux left) which means I need to up the gain on the preamp more than I would like to get a good level.
Recently, I have been recording in multitrack view using Track 1 Aux left and Track 2 Aux right and then doing a mixdown to mono which results in a nice strong level without having to boost the gain to much.
So I guess my questions would be am I in fact only recording half the signal in edit view by just using Aux left
and if that is true, should I just continue to record in multitrack view using the setup I decribed above.
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gdg444 wrote:
I have always heard that if you just raised the level using gain you take the chance of also introducing more noise in the signal and I was wanting to avoid that.
The short and sweet answer to this is that once you've recorded the signal, the amount of noise is fixed. But what you have to do to optimise this is called 'gain staging'. In the case of your preamp, this invariably means that you set the gain so that the clipping indicator (I take it that it has one?) indicates that you've got it just lower than it takes to light it on the loudest sound you want to record. With these signals present, you then set the input level control on your sound device (not the same as gain) so that it records these signals at around -5 to -10dB, in a controlled environment. In a non-controlled environment you'd allow a bit more than that. This gap between the -10dB and 0dB is called 'headroom'.
So basically, you are recording the best signal to noise ratio you can get from your preamp at the best level you can with your sound device. And that, by definition, is optimum.

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This worked in the previous version, and I believe it still works, but I have not tested.
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IMac-Questions for professional voice over recording

I'm about to purchase an iMac.Hi-I've used a PC for years recording VOs.Now I'm considering an iMac (3.20GHz Intel Core i3,4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB,1TB or 2TB Serial ATA Drive,ATI Radeon HD 5670 512MB GDDR3 SDRAM) Anyone willing to share some ideas and answer some questions I have about the eventual switch? Since I enjoy things very simple,until now I've achieved great results with a Sennheiser MD421-II mic,DBX 286A preamp/processor and Audacity on my PC. I'm a bit technically challenged when it comes down to knowing the inner workings of computers and Macs but I was told that I might need to look at the sound card that comes with the above iMac and consider upgrading it? Is this true? Is the graphics card adequate? Are the processor,Ram,hard drive adequately sized for VOs? Also...with the PC,my signal chain (if you want to even call it that: ) is mic,preamp,processor to computer via miniplug. Can I use the same with the iMac or do I need extra equipment? Thanks! So many questions....Thanks for any help or suggestions.

That computer will do everything you want and more. I have the same thing.
I haven't used the input on it yet, but the output is great minus 1 fault and that is the ground seems weak. I have two rokit8 monitors hooked up and was getting horrible ground loop noise, didn't happen in my old imac, just the new one.
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Hi there!
To start off, I am a beginner with audio equipment and recording, and very new to Audition. I recently did a voiceover recording in a studio setting, and was helped by an "audio engineer" -- although now I'm wondering if that's true -- because the WAV file we were provided is VERY noticeably off. It sounds like a tunnel, or underwater.
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Hey, J.
It sounds like the two channels of audio in your WAV file have been merged to mono. That's no always a bad thing, but in this case, they are no longer in-phase, so there is some interaction between the two channels. Can you send me the original file via dropbox or google drive to [email protected] for analysis? If the two channels of this stereo .wav are isolated, then you can save this recording by splitting them apart...which I can help you with inside the software.
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HD meterial? Would be realy helpful :>
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The Blue Yeti microphone would do the job admirably:
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In the documentation it says that when a voice over recording begins "A pulsing red light in the upper-left corner of the screen indicates that recording is in progress."
I see the red like graphic and what looks like an audio meter, but they are static--they don't blink or change or anything. So I don't get a visual feedback that it is actually recording or if my audio level is right.
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First off, it is my understanding that the speaker needs to be watching the final cut of the video as to keep in line in pace with him moving lips. The person in question is not a professional, thus not accustom to listening to himself as he is recorded. Should he be listening to the audio that he is going to be replacing (the playback), the live audio he is creating, or both? If both, I am assuming one channel is the live and the other is the playback, correct?
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Or is the simplest setup to encode the video clip to DVD and have the speaker simply watch it on a regular TV and listen to the audio playback with the headset and I monitor him via Soundbooth?
As you can tell, I am simply trying to figure out how to setup everything to make the voice over recording as quick and easy as possible, both of which I know it is not. I am open to ideas, I am even more open to any web sites or books that might help explain and talk about how to do this type of voice overs.
Sam

Hi Sam,
You may find the following information useful and learn professional techniques to preparing your voice-over demo. The link contains a training objective to gain experience and find voice work.
http://www.jlstudios.ca/Preparing_Your_Voice_Demo.html
Best of luck with your endevour.

Cannot do Voice-over

I cannot get either my bluesnowball USB mike or an analog audio mike to work in premiere pro CS4 for voice over recording. My system, windows vista home edition (32 bit) recognizes and loads the drivers for the USB mike, but when I try to record voice overs I get no audio, only static in the audio track. Adobe gave me some advice, which I followed, but I still cannot get it to work. My audio card is a Soundblaster X-FI Xtreme Gamer mounted in an HP Pavilion Ultimate (AMD PHENOM 9600 Quad-core processor, and an NVIDIA GEFORCE 8800GT (512MB)). Any help or someone with a similar problem? - Jean.

I've just switched to PPro CS4 after years of being a Vegas user ... because Vegas Pro 8 is @#$%%^&.
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That's all good.
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Darren Powell ... already disappointed with PPro ...

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Your help is gushingly appreciated.
You're quite welcome, always happy help out a fellow NEer
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Still, don't over look the free options. Lots of people like Audacity, and since it's free, I'd suggest trying it. Then if you don't find it works for you, try something else.
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