COMPLETE: Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - NF/tc

pberinstein · Post by **pberinstein** » December 6th, 2005, 2:07 pm

Peter Why wrote:Do we need to insert a marker before each of our character's recordings? .... the previous sentence, for example ... to make it easier for the poor editors to identify? After all, the butler says "Yes, Sir" at least twice with, as I read it, different intonations, so it'd be a help to know which one fits where.

As long as you record everything in the proper order, Peter, I shouldn't need any special markers. I'll be following the text.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » December 6th, 2005, 2:28 pm

johngon wrote:I just recorded a very rough excerpt. No editing or filtering... just to give an idea of my initial take.

http://johngon.com/ernest-test.mp3

Comments welcome.

John, your voice sounds fantastic! You have really great inflection.

(Don't forget that for the "real" take, to save the file in the WAV format instead of mp3 =)

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » December 6th, 2005, 2:36 pm

GordMackenzie wrote:Alright, I've posted my raw Ernest experiment at:

http://www.gordmackenzie.com/librivox/ernest_experiment_algie.wav

Oh, Gord, you too have an excellent voice... you and John are going to sound so good against one another!

This is going to be so sweet to hear all of the voices mixed together.

Peter Why · Post by **Peter Why** » December 6th, 2005, 4:24 pm

There you go; Merriman doesn't have too much to say (but the WAV is 22 Mb! ... more talkative characters are going to have to break down their parts into lots of bits.)

http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3JBOP0ADNQVM92NJO0ZPWIOPLE

Feel free to ask for changes.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » December 6th, 2005, 4:38 pm

Uncompressed audio is generally about 10 MB/minute (as opposed to the usual mp3 compression of about 1 MB/min). So yeah, these files are going to be huge if we don't split them up!

Kara

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » December 6th, 2005, 5:25 pm

here is my test...
http://betsie.info/librivox/earnest_experiment_narration_wilde.wav

it sounds really buzzy to me... no one else's has sounded buzzy to me ... so i'm wondering why mine is different...

Post by **hugh** » December 6th, 2005, 6:44 pm

for various complicated technical reasons, I cannot get a recording to you till the weekend is that OK?

For the whole project - these wav files will be massive. I wonder if the thing to do is take mp3s, import them into audacity - or suchlike - and edit, then recompress to mp3. I know the sound engineers among you will cringe, but lets be honest this'll be such a dog's breakfast of sound quality that it shouldn't make much difference.

anyway, I leave it to paula, thistle, and allan the man behind the scenes.

h?

Jon Ingram · Post by **Jon Ingram** » December 6th, 2005, 7:41 pm

If you're going to be sending large audio files back and forth for editing, you should look into using FLAC to compress the audio. FLAC is a lossless audio compressor, so you lose no information by using it, and you typically get a file 40% of the size of the original WAV (leading in our case to files that are a touch more than twice the size of 128kbit MP3 files, but with no quality loss).

You can download the FLAC encoder/decoder from here.

tis · Post by **tis** » December 7th, 2005, 3:59 am

hugh wrote:for various complicated technical reasons, I cannot get a recording to you till the weekend is that OK?

Same here (if then...) - I didn't appreciate we were in a great hurry?

GordMackenzie · Post by **GordMackenzie** » December 7th, 2005, 7:25 am

tis wrote: Same here (if then...) - I didn't appreciate we were in a great hurry?

I think that Thistle and Paula wanted to do a little test of the process, and were hoping to have the raw files to Paula by the end of the week:

thistlechick wrote:As soon as we have file format information from Paula, let's do a test run with Lane (Hugh), Algernon (Gord), and the Narrator (Betsie) reading the beginning of Act 1 (up to where Jack enters).

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » December 7th, 2005, 7:49 am

I think we're flexible... so, no worries =)

pberinstein · Post by **pberinstein** » December 7th, 2005, 8:18 am

Just to let you guys know, the editing will not go as quickly as the readings. Thanks for your patience.

Post by **hugh** » December 7th, 2005, 9:22 am

if it's just a test I can get a crackly version done, I think.

Deana Duncan · Post by **Deana Duncan** » December 7th, 2005, 3:59 pm

Please sign me up for reading the following:

The Importance of Being Earnest
Role of: Gwendolyn Fairfax.

Thank you,
Deana Duncan

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » December 7th, 2005, 4:18 pm

Welcome Deana! Glad to see you and thanks for accepting a role in our little experiment...

we've not quite begun yet, but keep an eye on this topic to see how things progress =)