Now in the final stages of our edit, our focus was now on fine tuning our short doco. This included colour grading, shortening footage to create a better flow and cleaning up sound.
While the visuals were all in a good place, our major issue was sound. As Rohan noted, audio from the interview clearly breaks in and out. This disrupted the flow and will potentially affect the overall quality. Rohan’s explanation went something like…If the audience notices edits in sound, it may cause them to have doubts about the accuracy of the information.
A technique to correct sudden dropping in and out of sound is to ease in sound. At the end of the break, ease it out. Also use non-speaking portions from audio, layer it beneath interview audio and identically match ease out keyframe points with non-speaking audio’s ease in keyframe points.
This is used to fill gaps in dialogue and hide breaks.
Example:
