Myself and the team put together a couple of videos for the Hydrographic Academy 'Learning Zone' Offline interface. These were a couple of welcome messages for the students. Why? This course will be predominately offline digital learning content, students are not likely to meet their tutors! It's rather important to enhance the overall learning experience that students actually know what their trainers look like.
The entire footage was filmed on a Canon 550D with a 50mm prime lens. I used a Zoom H1 fed into the microphone socket of the 550D, using a -25db attenuation cable (its a line to mic socket) I chose the 50mm for its excellent light transmission, as the lighting was standard florescent and ISO values was pushing into the graining 800-1600 area which is less desirable on this DSLR. We did not have access to additional lighting. Jon Scott (Learning Technologist) chose the location which was a video conference suite here at Plymouth University, hence the background image of Plymouth Sound. Sadly the room suffers from a noisy air-conditioning unit that can't be turned off. However, I was able to remove the background noise in post using a combination of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe Audition CS5. When I get the chance I intend to blog about how this was achieved. Hope you enjoy the videos.
This tutorial from YouTube is particularly good at showing how to use Audition to clean up noise in Premiere Pro CS5.5:
This tutorial from YouTube is particularly good at showing how to use Audition to clean up noise in Premiere Pro CS5.5:
Hi Jason,
ReplyDeleteThe videos look and sound great. I think that a video intro to the team is a really nice touch and really effective in engaging distance learning students. Drop me a line when you have time to do the blog post about cleaning up noise pollution!
Sam
Thank you, will have to get that done!
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