Krampfstadt Studio have made a useful little app for renaming sound effects to be UCS compliant. It can be run as a stand-alone program or just as an online version at: https://krampfstadtstudio.github.io/Krampfstadt-Studio-UCS-Renamer-v2 It includes a UCS Category Selector which can make things quick and easy for finding the right categories and sub-categories.
The most recent Australian Cinematographer (AC) magazine includes a nice little article by Evan Croker discussing some of the audio restoration work undertaken on “Crocodile Dundee: The Encore Cut”, including some tidbits from Rohan Taylor (Silversun Pictures) and yours truly.
Russ Hughes has written up a post on Production Expert about loudness standards not actually working, or not existing. A slightly clickbaity article title but a good discussion about the limitations of using LUFS for normalising and the challenges of different platforms using different LUFS levels. You can read it in the article “Let’s Stop … Read more Limitations of LUFS
On the Production Expert website they have published an article where Damian Kearns asks Michael Nunan, Senior Manager for Broadcast Audio and Post Production Operations at Bell Media about what happens with TV mixes after delivery for broadcasting. The article discusses some key concepts that can often be misunderstood about the importance of 5.1 mixes … Read more What Happens To My TV Mix After Delivery And Does It Matter?
Chris and Jack have made a humorous short video discussing ADR and how they hate it when it is too obvious. In doing so, they’ve given a good rundown of the various reasons for why ADR might be used. Check it out…
Ezra Sandzer-Bell from the Audio Design Desk team has written up an article discussing categories of non-diegetic sound effects, or sound design elements, commonly used in trailer (and other) sound design. It’s a good intro to the use of some of these types of sounds in productions and can be read here: https://add.app/sound-effects/sound-design-for-trailers-hits-rises-drones-pulses
A bunch of years ago I posted up about a funny/silly video from Toast of London about a VO recording session (https://versed.com.au/silly-videos-about-vo-recording-sessions). I just came across another one along a similar theme which is worth a watch for those involved in recording voice overs for clients. Check out The Lion by filmmaker Sam Buchanan below.
Around 2 years ago I needed to record some atmos/SFX for a scene for a feature film which featured some driving in a van. To cover it adequately for a 5.1 surround mix I used 6 microphones and did some takes or passes where I was using audio cues in headphones to “perform” the driving … Read more Multitrack Recording Van/Vehicle Sound Effects
Airwiggles recently held an online conference (AirCon 2023) covering many aspects of audio production with “over 50 hours of live talks, panels, and interviews featuring inspiring audio professionals from around the world.” A lot of the events sounded interesting but the times of the events were usually not great for me to attend in real … Read more AirCon Audio Conference Recordings
Craig Smith from the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts undertook a huge digitisation project to archive rolls of film and tape containing sound effects from the 1930s to 1950s from Hollywood, and shared them on freesound.org under a Creative Commons 0 license. This is a generous and valuable undertaking to preserve … Read more Classic Hollywood Sound Effects on Freesound