If you came here just to watch the video, here you go:
As usual, production notes follow.
The company that handled the live webinar definitely delivered, allowing footage from 3 different areas in Malaysia to be broadcast live via YouTube with only insignificant hitches. There was only 1 pre-recorded session; everything else was live. There was no noise to fix (thank God!). For me there were only a few things to do/fix:
To open the video, I created a small clip of the flyer panning the profile of the speakers and schedule, which then transitions into the introduction.
In a live broadcast, there would obviously be breaks between sessions. Even a few seconds is unnecessary in this on demand viewing format, so I deleted most of the unnecessary pauses (and even some dialogue) and added some simple transitions.
The speakers all speak obviously in different volumes (even in the same clip), so these were fixed with a compressor plugin, with adjustments made only to the input gain for the different speakers (and even with the same speaker but different segment. The aim is based as my now usual norm as per the recommendations here: around -12 to -15; there is no risk of peaking/clipping, but the listener will have to turn up the volume a bit (but avoid distortion). It was too tedious to fix every segment where levels drifted within the same clip; only those obvious (too soft dialogue, noises like sneezes) were edited. I noticed that my job wasn’t perfect, ie there were was some segments peaking at -9 on average, and there was some averaging -15, but in editing an almost 2 hour video as a non-pro (coming out as a 7 GB H.264 file) , I think my job was passable enough and I won’t go for perfect. Best to listen on dedicated speakers away from outside noise.
Only minimal highlighting was required (where the somehow the pointer of the ultrasound machine did not appear in the broadcast). These were easily solved with a few arrows and titles.
In the Q&A session, where both venues were broadcast simultaneously, I noticed that the audio from Johor lagged behind the video a bit. Wherever it was significant (e.g. where the team from Johor were answering questions), I pushed the audio back (around 17 frames in a 30fps video).
Audio effects used.
The compressor settings
A lil’ bit of low boost for everyone
Fixing the audio lag
Bringing the audio levels down but more even overall
There were of course some stuff that I have no power to fix:
There was some echo in the HKL demo, probably from the panelist mics picking up the audio broadcast from the moderator. I don’t know what is the fix for this, unless it is intended for only the speakers to hear from the moderator/other speakers.
The footage from Gleneagles could benefit from a bit of color adjustments. But since I’m using a cheap TV as my laptop monitor for now, I can’t fix it.
But overall, I do feel that this is a distinct polishing job of the already very good live footage; this was not a simple copy and upload. Enjoy.
(Do inform if you see any obvious need for improvement of the presentation; otherwise the version uploaded is final)