For editing and implementing my foley recording I chose to use Adobe Audition. It is a great peace of software and makes sense to me as it is part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Some audio professionals use other pieces of software but I really like Audition because the interface is familiar and makes a lot of sense to me.
It is also used by professionals in the industry as it is a fully fledged audio editing unit that has tailored functions for working with audio for video. That is the setup I use. It is brimming with features too for software that is so recent.
Another benefit is that it runs really smoothly on my Mac whereas a lot of the other audio interfaces out there don't really run on my machine. It is really light also so I can run it in conjunction with something like Premiere Pro or After Effects. This enables me to utilise dynamic linking and also allows me to make little changes on the fly.
So I took all my sound files into Audition and began implementing them using the sheet I drew up to help speed up the process. I also sourced some songs for the party scene to fill out that section. This is what my timeline looked like when all was said and done:
The top element is the video file. Immediately below it in green in the raw dialogue audio captured on set which as you can see I have only touched the volume for certain sections to help normalise everything.
Everything below that has been implemented and edited by me. This is only two pieces of music and just foley sound. No sound effects are in yet, that's next. I am really happy with how everything came out. Luckily my Rode NTG-2 sounded really similar to the mic on set however, there was a lot more bass captured by mic. At first I thought it would be a big issue as it would make the sound assets stand out like a sore thumb but after mixing it for a little while I realised that it actually worked really well.
It really thickened every sound effect and added a nice other texture sprinkled in throughout the film and so I left the EQ curve untouched. It sits really well in the mix and just adds weight and depth to everything.
I plan to export a version of the film (once the colour and effects are done) in a few different versions. One of those versions will be just the sound files I implemented without any sound assets that were captured on set. Just so it is clear what I have added and what they do to the sound landscape.
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