Clean capture is always the aim, but for whatever reason sometimes booms or lav mics might not make it back to the camera. When only onboard camera audio remains does quality have to go out the window? DxRevive Pro thinks not… Hear the results for yourself.
Up Against It
With a huge number of things to get right, it’s not unusual for the odd thing to go wrong on a shoot. Even the best prepared recordists can find themselves dealing with dying leads or rustling lavs that can make dialogue at best compromised and at worst unusable.
In a worst-case scenario, the only existing audio might be off the camera mics themselves. Some small cameras’ mics can be surprisingly noisy, but even the better ones cannot escape the physics of being much further away. Certainly dialogue that is roomy, noisy, or lacking in intelligibility would be considered a major compromise by most mixers.
Shift Happens
In our recent article Paul Maunder took Accentize’s new magic plugin DxRevive Pro for a spin. This marks a shift in what dialogue editors and Post mixers can expect to achieve when faced with using the unusable.
Watch below in the video as we use DxRevive Pro across camera mics to not only do the job of a boom or lav mics, but also to potentially do a better job under certain conditions. We also show how in combination with a levelling tool, post mixers’ lives just got a lot easier…
To be clear this tool is not ‘just’ a de-noiser. It is a one-stop restoration tool that kills noise, dries up ambience, kills codec nasties and/or clips, and restores missing frequencies for sounds that leave DxRevive Pro altogether fixed in most ways. If that sounds too good to be true, it used to be. While the treated audio can sound ‘processed’, it is infinitely better than the alternative. With time, we look forward to seeing how this tech gets even better.