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Given this video is taken by a drone, and drones are very noisy, are the splashing sounds and sounds of penguins chirping added later?

gnomesteel 3y ago
Yes
Waterluvian 3y ago
Sounds in almost all nature documentary videos are added later from separate sources.
- odyssey7 3y ago
  That makes sense. I'd never thought about it. You've saved me the disappointment of visiting Antarctica to realize that David Attenborough's voice doesn't just chime in whenever you look at something.
  - stavros 3y ago
    Surprisingly, the voice is the only part of the audio that's real.
  - cozzyd 3y ago
    Been to Antarctica twice. Attenborough's voice definitely chimes in.
Terretta 3y ago
Two dimensions to this question: first, drone noise; second, audio track. On the noise: > "Given this video is taken by a drone, and drones are very noisy..." Here's from National Geographic's press release on this video: “Through the harnessing of new technology and pushing the boundaries of polar filming, Bertie utilized a newly released camera drone equipped with a telephoto lens allowing him to capture animal behavior from the air like never before without disrupting or impacting the penguins.” https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240411040454/en/National-Geographic-and-Bertie-Gregory-Release-Unprecedented-Footage-of-Emperor-Penguin-Behavior-Filmed-for-the-First-Time-on-the-Coast-of-Antarctica https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240411040454/en/Nat... So they were aware of the noise and other disturbance to the penguins, and were far enough away its unlikely these sounds are recorded from the drone itself. On the audio track: Mics and recorders could have been placed in advance. Given the level of preparation described, this is a possibility. Audio of a given action or situation could have been captured separately elsewhere and dubbed. This seems most likely, and if natural sounds were captured on location from the same flocks, wouldn't generally carry a disclaimer. In either of these cases, the drone doesn't need a mic, or can carry one just for sound sync purposes, but the sound is done in foley with or without a field recording. To use drone audio without it audible to the viewer, shotgun mics with a sound pattern that picks up far point noise (imagine a teleaudio mic to go with the telephoto lens) could be used. Drone noise is distinct, and can be removed, firms and software specialize in this: https://www.sound2design.com/online-sound-restoration-and-drone-noise-removal https://www.sound2design.com/online-sound-restoration-and-dr... One way is to point the shotguns at silence, record drone noise alone, then invert it, something like "speech transparency" mode in noise cancelling headphones. Today's audio processing is relatively magical when it doesn't have to fit in an earbud. I haven't researched this case, but it sounded like foley.
- davidguetta 3y ago
  Thats a lot of word to say you dont know beyond the sentence you quote Its likely fake like most NatGeo vids (not that it takes away any of the visual awesomeness)
  - Terretta 3y ago
    > Thats a lot of word to say you dont know beyond the sentence you quote. Its likely fake... And a lot of words to agree that “it's unlikely these sounds are recorded from the drone”? The additional words are to share the most common industry ways it can be done if it's not foley. OTOH, if you're "the" david guetta, my words certainly wasted your time. :-)
ml-anon 3y ago
The audio track in nature documentaries is unfortunately almost entirely foley.

gnomesteel 3y ago

Yes

Waterluvian 3y ago

Sounds in almost all nature documentary videos are added later from separate sources.

odyssey7 3y ago
That makes sense. I'd never thought about it. You've saved me the disappointment of visiting Antarctica to realize that David Attenborough's voice doesn't just chime in whenever you look at something.
- stavros 3y ago
  Surprisingly, the voice is the only part of the audio that's real.
- cozzyd 3y ago
  Been to Antarctica twice. Attenborough's voice definitely chimes in.

Terretta 3y ago

Two dimensions to this question: first, drone noise; second, audio track. On the noise: > "Given this video is taken by a drone, and drones are very noisy..." Here's from National Geographic's press release on this video: “Through the harnessing of new technology and pushing the boundaries of polar filming, Bertie utilized a newly released camera drone equipped with a telephoto lens allowing him to capture animal behavior from the air like never before without disrupting or impacting the penguins.” https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240411040454/en/National-Geographic-and-Bertie-Gregory-Release-Unprecedented-Footage-of-Emperor-Penguin-Behavior-Filmed-for-the-First-Time-on-the-Coast-of-Antarctica https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240411040454/en/Nat... So they were aware of the noise and other disturbance to the penguins, and were far enough away its unlikely these sounds are recorded from the drone itself. On the audio track: Mics and recorders could have been placed in advance. Given the level of preparation described, this is a possibility. Audio of a given action or situation could have been captured separately elsewhere and dubbed. This seems most likely, and if natural sounds were captured on location from the same flocks, wouldn't generally carry a disclaimer. In either of these cases, the drone doesn't need a mic, or can carry one just for sound sync purposes, but the sound is done in foley with or without a field recording. To use drone audio without it audible to the viewer, shotgun mics with a sound pattern that picks up far point noise (imagine a teleaudio mic to go with the telephoto lens) could be used. Drone noise is distinct, and can be removed, firms and software specialize in this: https://www.sound2design.com/online-sound-restoration-and-drone-noise-removal https://www.sound2design.com/online-sound-restoration-and-dr... One way is to point the shotguns at silence, record drone noise alone, then invert it, something like "speech transparency" mode in noise cancelling headphones. Today's audio processing is relatively magical when it doesn't have to fit in an earbud. I haven't researched this case, but it sounded like foley.

davidguetta 3y ago
Thats a lot of word to say you dont know beyond the sentence you quote Its likely fake like most NatGeo vids (not that it takes away any of the visual awesomeness)
- Terretta 3y ago
  > Thats a lot of word to say you dont know beyond the sentence you quote. Its likely fake... And a lot of words to agree that “it's unlikely these sounds are recorded from the drone”? The additional words are to share the most common industry ways it can be done if it's not foley. OTOH, if you're "the" david guetta, my words certainly wasted your time. :-)

ml-anon 3y ago

The audio track in nature documentaries is unfortunately almost entirely foley.