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Subject:Creating a Voice-Over Posted by: agnerc Date:12/4/2003 10:16:03 AM If I want to record a voice-over with some talent we have here at my work, does anyone have any tips on things that I could instruct my talent to do to make the voice-over sound good? And are there some things that I can do in my Sound Forge program to make their voice sound it's best? The way I am currently doing it is my script is broken up into time segments, like :00 - :10 is a sentence and they read that and that is one .wav and then so on until I have all my .wav files. I then go into my editing program and put that onto the timeline and render out a full .wav. Then pu that full .wav into my overall project and render that out. Thanks for any help, CA
Subject:RE: Creating a Voice-Over Reply by: Sonic Date:12/4/2003 11:46:25 AM One of the best improvements you can make does not involve the talent or Sound Forge at all. Look into building your own voiceover box. Here's one link. There are others. J.
Subject:RE: Creating a Voice-Over Reply by: Vocalpoint Date:12/4/2003 12:28:34 PM CA, I do voiceover for a living. Besides having the talent knowing how to interpret the copy and giving him/her...the best mic/pre-amp combo you can get...here are some tips on the actual recording: Have your talent read the whole thing (with breaks in the copy of course) as one contiunuous session. When I do a large narration script...I just let SF roll until I get it all. This lets me get into the spirit of the read without stopping down every paragraph/sentence to save a out a file etc....just breaks up my flow too much. Then save that entire session file out and build your master file from there. Once I have the session voicing file complete - I preview the raw voicetrack file and start my master by doing a select/drag on the first bit I want to keep onto the SF desktop to create a new file. Then continue to select the best pieces and drag them into the new file and do my edits on the fly. This method preserves my session voicetrack with all the original bits as recorded and creates a nice clean master with minimal editing. Other timesavers include leaving very evident silent pauses and audio cues like "This is Paragraph 2" etc...in my original session and setting marker/regions on each segment so I can hop around in the session very easily when selecting pieces to use. Good luck. Cuzin B

Subject:Creating a Voice-Over

Posted by: agnerc

Date:12/4/2003 10:16:03 AM

If I want to record a voice-over with some talent we have here at my work, does anyone have any tips on things that I could instruct my talent to do to make the voice-over sound good? And are there some things that I can do in my Sound Forge program to make their voice sound it's best?

The way I am currently doing it is my script is broken up into time segments, like :00 - :10 is a sentence and they read that and that is one .wav and then so on until I have all my .wav files. I then go into my editing program and put that onto the timeline and render out a full .wav. Then pu that full .wav into my overall project and render that out.

Thanks for any help,
CA

Subject:RE: Creating a Voice-Over

Reply by: Sonic

Date:12/4/2003 11:46:25 AM

One of the best improvements you can make does not involve the talent or Sound Forge at all. Look into building your own voiceover box. Here's one link. There are others.

J.

Subject:RE: Creating a Voice-Over

Reply by: Vocalpoint

Date:12/4/2003 12:28:34 PM

CA,

I do voiceover for a living. Besides having the talent knowing how to interpret the copy and giving him/her...the best mic/pre-amp combo you can get...here are some tips on the actual recording:

Have your talent read the whole thing (with breaks in the copy of course) as one contiunuous session. When I do a large narration script...I just let SF roll until I get it all. This lets me get into the spirit of the read without stopping down every paragraph/sentence to save a out a file etc....just breaks up my flow too much. Then save that entire session file out and build your master file from there.

Once I have the session voicing file complete - I preview the raw voicetrack file and start my master by doing a select/drag on the first bit I want to keep onto the SF desktop to create a new file. Then continue to select the best pieces and drag them into the new file and do my edits on the fly.

This method preserves my session voicetrack with all the original bits as recorded and creates a nice clean master with minimal editing.

Other timesavers include leaving very evident silent pauses and audio cues like "This is Paragraph 2" etc...in my original session and setting marker/regions on each segment so I can hop around in the session very easily when selecting pieces to use.

Good luck.

Cuzin B