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Questions tagged [background]

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Backgrounds for Interiors

I am just curious as to what others are doing when it comes to backgrounds inside a house/apartment. I always have trouble trying to design and layer a bg for an interior where no visual evidence of the outside world really exist for the scene. …
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When cutting BG's..

For car scenes that involve Dialogue and camera angles that move from the hood outside the car, to actual back seat perspective shots, does one cut everything from the interior perspective since thats where the characters are actually speaking or do…
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Sounds of Iraq - natural environment

Hello all! I'm working on a film set in Iraq. I've done some research but I'm having a hard time finding out what the natural environment would sound like realistically in regards to animal and insect life. I know what the desert sounds like here -…
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Emphasize background conversation to make subtitles

I have an video file of somebody talking and some conversation taking place in the background. I need to remove or lower volume of the main voice and emphasize the background conversation. Is there a way/program that helps me do that? I need this…
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How do you cut BGs across time shifts within the same space?

How do you cut / delineate a jump in time within the same space? Is there a standard way to handle this? For example, setting = interior, home office, day. Character A is sitting at their desk when character B enters the room. Character A stands to…
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Background interiors with different perspectives

Hi everyone! I'm working on a project in which the interior scenes have 2 different perspectives: 2 men sitting at a table close to the exit door (always shut) and 1 man sitting at the bar listening to their conversation, less closer to the…
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How do I use a shorter audio as the background for the longer one?

I have two audio files, one is 41:27 long and the other is 01:31 long named 0909.mp3. I'm trying to use 0909.mp3 as the background for the longer one with ocenaudio. I tried Paste Special | Overlap, From File However, the background only covers…
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Appropriate background music for a webapp screencast

I'm making a screencast tutorial of a webapp. It's primarily boring. Can anyone recommend an appropriate soothing background music from the FCP audio content? This will be my first time using Final Cut Pro X (or any video editing software).
Mark