editing How to cover up audio blips between shots in Premiere Pro?

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Hi all,

I am editing together my first short film but I am having trouble with the audio. I edit using Premiere Pro CS3. Say I have 2 shots that I put side by side in the timeline, the background audio is similar but when it plays over the bit where the two audio segments join I get a little *blip* noise making it obvious its just two scenes bodged together.

What tools in Premiere Pro CS3 can I use to hide these blips and merge two audio pieces together?

Thanks!
 
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Couple of simpleton methods...

1. Crossfade the audio between scenes. That is, fade one down while the other comes up; don't jump from one directly to the other.

2. Take a sliver of room tone (a section of sound from the room with no dialog or other noises) and place this over the jump, fading it up and out. Practice until the blip is imperceptible.

3. Don't begin the 2nd piece of audio until someone begins speaking...extend the audio from the first take beyond where the video ends. Don't start the 2nd audio until someone talks (or some other noise is made). Sometimes that blip is made all the louder because the video is also changing.
 
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I don't know how the soundtrack works on the film, but if it's silence, could you just "cut" the blip out?

Of course if there's dialogue or music, then that doesn't work.

The above ideas sound good too.
 
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Uranium City said:
1. Crossfade the audio between scenes. That is, fade one down while the other comes up; don't jump from one directly to the other.

2. Take a sliver of room tone (a section of sound from the room with no dialog or other noises) and place this over the jump, fading it up and out. Practice until the blip is imperceptible.

3. Don't begin the 2nd piece of audio until someone begins speaking...extend the audio from the first take beyond where the video ends. Don't start the 2nd audio until someone talks (or some other noise is made). Sometimes that blip is made all the louder because the video is also changing.
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These are good suggestions.

One other technique that I use - and I'm assuming the "blip" you're talking about is the bump that results from mismatched sine waves in the two audio clips - is to trim a frame and/or add a frame from/to the end/beginning of the clips. Sometimes, when an edit comes between two sound clips and you don't have enough head or tail to crossfade, you can add one frame to the tail of the first clip and subtract one from the head of the second (or vice versa) and create enough of a match between the sine waves that the bump goes away. If one frame doesn't do it, try two or even three.
 
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