Moving to France from the UK: Webinar 17 October 1800 BST

This is machiavelously clever :joy:

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You are literally too kind!

About to start

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Bonsoir! Enjoying this webinar - hosts are great :+1: have some useful information already.; NHS S 1 form - great - this was a concern as I’m retired.

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It was good to put faces to names and hear some stories this evening. Unfortunately we were 30min late, but better than never.

Thanks Cat, Fab and Eric.

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It was a great webinar, lots of useful info for us thinking about a move.lots of questions still though!

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Welcome here @Nomad83 , I’ve just sent the follow-up email so let us if you have some unanswered questions? :wink:

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My one criticism is that yappy American (AI-generated?) voice at the start.

Couldn’t you have got a real person, or at least someone with a less annoying voice, to do it?

Indeed, @cat or @fabien would have been a much more charming choice.

Thank you for the webinar - I didn’t get the chance to watch it live as I had to prep cameras for a last-minute photo shoot today - but I will watch on YouTube!

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Ahah, I actually hired someone for the voice over but now that you’re mentioning it they may have use some sort of an AI generation tool. It’s actually harder than it looks to create a clean voice over as it requires quite some good audio equipment which I don’t have (unfortunately) that’s why I had to subcontract. And if I’m being honest my accent is no near as good as Cat’s :joy:

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@fabien looking at the webinar it seems that you have a large diaphragm USB microphone plugged into the computer - that will do fine for a voiceover as well as for a live webinar.

For voiceover work you might want it a little nearer to your mouth, and make sure you are recording in a quiet location that does not have an echo. If you get a good audio level (but not distorting) even a cheap microphone can sound good.

As a final tip, if you are editing your video in Adobe Premiere Pro, it has the Essential Sound panel which lets you compress the voiceover track to even it out, and adjust the bass and treble as well. It has a really good auto feature which will make a big improvement very easily!

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/premiere-pro/using/premiere-essential-sound-panel.html

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Wow @ChrisMann I must admit I’m impressed. I am comtemplating the idea of arranging “in-person” interviews with some of my clients to create video content, something like a podcast but going to people’s places (not inviting me to my place) but I’m beating around the bush as I always seem to stumble on the tech side of this. I mean, how do you think I could arrange this and what kind of equipment would I require for the audio to be at least decent? I am a complete noob… happy to take this conversation privately if you’d like by the way?

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Short answer; the easiest way would be to use a small wireless lavalier mic system, ideally two mics so that your questions get recorded clearly as well, with the receiver plugged into your camera.

The transmitters are a bit obvious but you can plug in a lavalier mic to them if you want to make the setup a little less noticeable in the video.

There are many such systems available now - Rode (an Australian company) is the market leader with their Wireless Go II system, which I use:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/RØDE-Microphones-WAVE-Wireless-400836009/dp/B08XFQ6KP9

DJI also make a good system, and there are countless Chinese knock-offs at lower prices. :slight_smile:

if you want to chat about this in more detail let me know and we can message here or talk on Zoom sometime.

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Fantastic thank you so much, I’ll send you a private message too :wink:

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