More information has been made public about the update to the Universal Category System for sound effects libraries that I mentioned in a post recently. The Universal Category System (UCS) is a public domain initiative and details can be accessed on the initiative’s website: https://universalcategorysystem.com/
RTW have published a list of the latest delivery standards with regard to LUFS audio loudness for broadcasting around the world. It makes for a handy resource for audio post professionals and is available at: https://www.rtw.com/en/blog/worldwide-loudness-delivery-standards.html
A few years ago Tim Neilsen from Skywalker Sound compiled a sound effects category list in an effort to bring some more standardisation to sound library organisation, or at least to give people a starting off point. Details including the list itself were included in this article: https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2017/6/27/sound-effects-categories-how-do-you-organise-yours Since then Tim and Justin Drury from … Read more Universal Sound Effects Categories
Rode recently released a free (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0) sound library comprising ambisonics recordings from all around the world. The attribution thing might make it a non-starter for a lot of commercial projects, but it could be a useful resource for student projects or for people learning about ambisonics or wanting to have a play … Read more Creative Commons Soundfield Ambisonics Library
Marshall McGee put together a short video that shows how two different sound designers approach a subjective sound design for magic spells, using the same samples. Interesting to see the different creative approaches. Check it out here:
Like a lot of Pro Tools users, I’m excited that Avid have put track folder functionality into the latest version of Pro Tools. It is one of those features that some DAWs have had for a long time, so it is about time that Pro Tools could do it. Scot Weber has put together a … Read more Pro Tools Track Folders for Post-Production
Jon Lefkovitz has put together a great feature-length documentary from over 50 hours of Murch’s lectures, interviews, and commentaries. It is like a 75 minute masterclass and discusses sound design, the role of music, film editing and more. Watch the whole thing here:
Avid released Pro Tools 2019.10 the other day which includes the Dolby Audio Bridge which makes it even more capable for producing Dolby Atmos mixes. Along with this release Netflix have updated their recommendation for Dolby Atmos mixes, including that while there are minimum requirements for mixes, Dolby Certification is not required for Home Atmos … Read more Netflix and Dolby Atmos
Randy Thom, one of the greats of sound design, has a blog post about being creative and embracing accidents and mistakes. One of my favourite quotes from it is: A Craftsman knows how to avoid accidents — an Artist knows how to use them Randy Thom Read the full blog post at Randy’s website:
I’ve written before about loudness specs for television and content for the web, but not so much for radio as such. From what I can tell there are no real hard specifications for loudness of radio ads here in Australia, and some sample ads I have checked out have quite a range of loudness values. … Read more Radio Ad Specs