audio - children voices

we were shooting the movie in the streets of a village, there were lots of kids around and we did our best to keep them quiet, but without avail...

most of the recording is focused on the sound we want from the voice of the actors, but there is a barely audible incidence of children's voices in the distance.

we did read the Jon Chappell's audio tutorial (october 2008), but and did try the low Pass Filter and low shelf filter as well as the hum remover ... the result is not quite to our satisfaction...we still hear the kids (!).
does any one else have any suggestions?

thanks!........Sam and Katah in the cutting room

vices are voices, pretty much.

it will be very hard to remove the kids completely from your track.
you should keep experiemtning with eq, BUT it wil only get you so far, and it wont really remove the kids.

the next step wil be to edit some fill or atmos onto another track,
and then cut or volume graph the sync dialogue out when ever the actors aren't talking.
you could try using a noise gate to do this, but it wont be as accurate as doing it manualy.
it's not great.. watch an old episode of Rockford Files to hear some pretty clunky gating.

best would be to find quiet pats of your location sound and cut them into the sync when the actors arent talking,
then MASK the kids with some other atoms that inhabits roughly the same audio spectrum
birds? squeaky metal in the breeze?


nick

This will do the trick

Vocal Align

Or just ADR it- there's no shame in that...

Noah

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