Category: problems

Speaker problems and considerations

Joseph Pallot / / LO3, problems

A major problem we ran into towards the end of this project was interaction with the media group, which we eventually found out was because of the speaker quality that they were listening to our finished tracks through.

We were able to meet with the group to find out what was wrong and when they played the track through the speakers they were using the bass and treble frequencies were boosted while the mids were dropped.

This obviously gave them a bad impression of the quality of work that we had given them. This was later rectified once we had taken them into the sound theatre, and showed them the same mix with the higher quality speakers. This has made us reconsider the way we worked, and in future we will invite media groups into the sound theatre to listen to our work so they can have an accurate representation of what we’re really going to be giving them in the finished package.

This problem confused us when we first heard that the group was unhappy with the audio and was having a lot of bad problems with it because we had run everything through Izotope Insight so we knew that it was within loudness regulations and that there was nothing bad happening with the EQ of the different sections.

Once the media team had heard the true version of the work we were presenting them with they were completely fine and happy with the project, even cancelling some of the changes they were requesting because the film sounded different to how they were hearing it on their setup.

dialogue editing problem?

Joseph Pallot / / problems

there was a misunderstanding between both teams and tutors, we were under the general understanding that we would line up the dialogue tracks ourselves and then give them to the media team to start their editing, but it turns out that it is the media teams job to line up the dialogue to the picture themselves, then give us picture lock to edit to with .aaf or .omf file types so we could clean up the dialogue tracks retrospectively.

At first this was unclear to us so we started to line up the audio and then give the shots to the media team, but then we found out that it was the media team’s job to sync the dialogue while they were making the picture edit. This became clear after a meeting with the Media tutor who explained that it should be the media teams job because they are the ones that are picking which scenes they are using, it is just our job to make it work afterwards.