I'm shooting a digital movie. Can I add the sound of guns firing during the editing. Also, I may have to remove or obsucre things from the background such as business signs. Is this possible too?
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randall
randall
You can add gun shot sound effects in post...What editing software are you working with?
You will always need to add the gun sound effects in after. Just using the original cap gun noise or wateva your working with doesnt sound to good in the final product. With editing out business signs that may be hard to do without it been noticeable. You would have to tell us exactly what it was you wanted to do, and whether you have filmed it yet?
One way to hide the editing of signs is to create two identical layers. Make the background layer slightly blurry. Then mask the front layer so that the blurry background shows through. (This blurry will also help hide any changes you did to the signs).
This *could* create a more cinematic look of focus on the foreground while uniformly blurring out the background. It also has the benefit of being a forgiving mask since the two layers are otherwise identical. Of course it would only work if you have a decent amount of distance between the foreground and background.
Another way to really make this work is to add in a third layer in the middle. Another character or item. You could shift focus between the foreground (cut the clips and rearrange which one is in front and fade from one to the other) to create a really nice camera shift in focus that would basically hide the reason the far background is fuzzy.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
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