Friday, April 22, 2011
Voice Changing
I never knew there was a pitch-changing tool in Final Cut before, so now I'm having fun trying to figure out what all the various attributes do. Does anyone know how to make a voice more feminine (there is a female character in my edit, but I don't have a female voice actor)? Just changing the pitch doesn't really do the trick, it just gives it a chipmunk-like sound. Also, what are all these variables? Smooth, analysis window, overlap, reset scale...What is all this?
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To avoid "chipmunking" just don't go over 30% change which should sound feminine enough, unless the original voice is very deep. I don't know what some of the variables do. If they don't produce any noticeable effect ignore them.
Blend is similar to opacity, it simply mixes the change with the original which might sweeten the sound. I would also set smooth and tightness all the way up since that seems to give the cleanest sound without fuzz, but again, only go to about 30% increase in pitch (equivalent from a C to an F in music)
Sometimes slowing the tempo of the voice after increasing the pitch ( tempo without changing pitch) will make the female voice seem older, and increasing the tempo makes it sound younger. A 10% change in tempo should be enough.
I use Audacity to do those things BTW, but the same would be true in FCP. Enjoy experimenting!
This article sheds a little bit of light, or shall I say sound?:-). It also mention the procedence of the APitch (Logic Audio) and other plugins which do a great job but they are in either ProTools or Ableton (a super program BTW)
Forgot to say that in FCP a 30% change would be a value of about 300 (maybe too obvious?)
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