Adding Sound

[HenrySuper8]

I and a friend have decided to shoot our next film on super-8 (no more digital!!). We now need your advice on adding sound, dubbing dialogue et cetera. I (henry) am good at sound engineering so the sound production will not be hard, but how do i sync it when working and how do i finally add the sound to the film?

[Alex]

I hope to contribute to this topic, but at the moment I'm on a deadline!

[HenrySuper8]

What do you think about transferring the film to a digital working copy, making a digital sound track and then recording the track to a magnet stripe ?

[cameraguy]

Adding synch sound to the film magnetic strips has been discussed in great detail in other forums. There is a guy nicknamed Pedro from Germany who is Super 8's greatest asset in regards to synching sound to film. A good overview can be found at this link

http://www.super8mmdirectory.com/Sup...lse_synch.html

He even makes a whole line of his own synch sound products, I have his product list on a Word file if you want me to email it to you.

[Alex]

It's very difficult to tell you how to do sound because everyone has a different approach.

However, as you decide on a specific approach, please let us know, and then perhaps we can throw in helpful suggestions.

If you had your choice, what is the way you would prefer to do the sound?

[LAmind]

What i do is use my friend's minidisk player/recorder to record the sound as we shoot. Then we transfer the film footage to digital and load that onto the computer and put the sound on the cop too. And just sync the sound to the footage, it's not hard. Just use a clapboard. We don't on a clapboard so we just say the scene and then CLAP with our hands. Works great.

[Greg Crawford]

TO RECORD LOCATION AUDIO

Use your video camera to record the audio at the time of your Super 8 filming. Use a Clap board...You should have no problem with short sync dialog work.

If your Super 8 has crystal lock ...use it! NO SYNC MOTOR ON CAMERA ... Think short dialog takes ..

Use a good mic, mount it to a boom pool and run the audio into your camera. Even a $65.00 radio shake mike (shotgun) or even cheaper lav. will work better than what's on your video camera.

When you go to shoot your take,,,,roll video camera first announce the scene and take number. Then roll camera and record and film clapper falling...you'll save film. But you probably know all that..

If you do not have an expensive boom poll.
Buy a yellow "ceiling duster," from Wally world, pain black works great. Reach is not very long just 8 feet or under.... but still for the price!

Try to do your sound take outside.....you can also try having your camera as fair as possible from the actors and zoom in, to cut down on camera noise.

Noisy location....roll off low frequencies on mic or in post production mixing.

Try to get the mic as close to your actors...but but... but...Personal note, train your boom operator well and watch top of frame line carfully.

Good luck

[cameraguy]

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TO RECORD LOCATION AUDIO

Use your video camera to record the audio at the time of your Super 8 filming. Use a Clap board...You should have no problem with short sync dialog work.

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Ok, but how do you get that sound to the film itself which is what I believe the original poster wants.

[Alex]

I'm curious which avenue Henry chose? Non-linear audio layed back to CD or Sound striping his film and inserting audio directly onto the film.