Around 18 months ago Ayla Pentikainen and I put together an installation for the Burning Seed festival which is held near Matong, NSW. The festival is an offshoot of the Burning Man festival in USA, and is not-for-profit and based around art and community. For more information about the festival, check out http://www.burningmanaustralia.com/burning-seed The theme … Read more Mythinterpret
Sometimes you don’t get a suitable room tone or atmos track to use as fill when editing dialogue, in which case you end up cutting together what you can out of the quiet parts on what you have. The video at the folowing link shows a handy technique using the Strip Silence feature in Pro … Read more Dialogue Editing – Creating Fill Technique
There are a couple of great resources that have been produced for us at European seminars over the last few years that allow you to compare various surround microphone arrays in blind listening tests. This one contains ambience recordings: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=87 This one contains orchestral recordings: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=58
Here’s an article suggesting why filmmakers really need to respect sound on location: http://www.raindance.org/6-ways-directors-screw-sound-editors/
I scored myself a Triton Audio FetHead for Christmas – pretty sweet present right. It is a little in-line phantom-powered mic preamp. The interesting thing about it is that it has a really high input impedance which is meant to work a treat with ribbon mics and some moving coil dynamic mics. I gave it … Read more First Impressions of the Triton Audio FetHead
Sound artist Diego Stocco made a short series of videos about the sound design process for DTS. It’s just short snippets, but shows some cool stuff: http://www.behance.net/gallery/DTS-Sound-Magician-Series/9925935 Stocco has made heaps of cool videos over the years of him making music with all sorts of stuff like trees and machinery.
Someone put me onto: http://www.bfxr.net/ It’s a nifty little tool for creating sound effects. Check it out.
Vordio can use FCPX XML to create a Reaper project… http://vordio.net/ I generally use Pro Tools or Digital Performer for post projects, but I might use this as an excuse to give Reaper a go for post for a project. Otherwise people seem to use X2Pro to get FCPX projects into Pro Tools: http://www.x2pro.net Another … Read more FCPX to Reaper
Here’s a pretty clear explanation of using the “Synchronize Clips” feature in Final Cut Pro X: http://masteringfilm.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial-syncing-audio/
Here’s an easy to use online calculator for figuring out intermodulation frequencies to consider when using wireless gear: http://www.arcticpeak.com/radiopages/intermodulationproducts.htm