I sometimes get sound and media students asking about where to find royalty free music for their projects. I have had a couple use tracks from incompetech recently, and that site seems quite straight-forward in terms of it’s licensing options. There is also a good list of royalty free music resources available at: Royalty Free … Read more Royalty Free Music
Adobe have previewed their VoCo (Voice Conversion) software, which allows users to edit dialogue recordings by using text. It looks interesting, but you also need quite a bit of recorded dialogue for it to use as analysis to work properly. Not sure how useful this will be to most people, but interesting technology nonetheless. Check … Read more Adobe VoCo
I went in to a local theatre the other day to check playback for a preview screening for a feature film I have worked on, and unfortunately it didn’t quite sound right. The Director had sent the facility an MP4 for playback (this particular theatrette can’t handle DCPs), which supposedly had a 5.1 surround sound … Read more 5.1 Surround Speaker Calibration Video
Karen Collins has finished her game audio documentary project, Beep, which sounds like a huge undertaking. Karen has provided “a little post-mortem for future filmmakers out there to understand just how expensive it is to make a movie” on her website. To check out details of her budget, visit: http://www.gamessound.com/budget.html
The NewActon South building in Canberra has a comfortable little 35 seat theatre in the ground floor that is used by residents and can be booked for events and screenings. They have a reasonable rate for local filmmakers, and I have been to a screening of a local short I worked on there in the … Read more Kendall Lane Theatre
Way back in 2000 legendary film and film sound editor Walter Murch wrote an interesting article discussing the role of sound for film. He starts with a reflection of the importance of the sound role in the early days of sound films, and goes on to discuss sound design theory. Check it out on the … Read more Stretching Sound to Help the Mind See
The Audible Range website have posted up a great article about the making of the original Star Trek sound effects, that includes a soundboard so you can sample the sounds on the site. Check it out at: http://audiblerange.com/categories/the-listening-life/kittens-kisses-and-razorblades-behind-star-treks-iconic-sounds/
Pro Tools Expert has been publishing some great posts discussing the process of conforming and re-conforming audio post sessions in Pro Tools. Here are the links to parts 1 to 3: http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-1 http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-2 http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-page/2016/7/1/pro-tools-conforming-and-re-conforming-in-audio-post-production-part-3
Ever wondered what a Hollywood film budget looks like? Website The Smoking Gun has some interesting resources including a copy of the budget for M Night Shyamalan’s film “The Village”. The budget comes to over $70 million US dollars. According to IMDB, the gross box office income for the film came to over $110 million. … Read more The Village Film Budget
The MEAA’s draft market rates for screen industry crew are published here: Get Real On Rates Production Sound Mixer, Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording Mixers have a suggested minimum of $2,200 per week, with Boom Ops at $1,800 and other non-supervising sound editorial staff at $1,850. These rates are wages for time only, … Read more Get Real on Rates