Avid have put out a series of 6 videos discussing post production mixing using Pro Tools and their new S3 interface. The videos are good. It is partially a sales pitch for the S3, but it nevertheless has some interesting aspects and techniques, such as the use of Memory Locations for showing and hiding groups … Read more Avid Post Mixing Videos
Walter Murch is the man. At least that is what I tell audio post-production students. There is an article he wrote in 2005 on the Transom website that discusses a couple of his thoughts on sound, including his approach to mixing a dense soundtrack, using the classic helicopter attack scene from Apocalypse Now as his example. … Read more Walter Murch – Dense Clarity and Clear Density
I have read a couple of articles or blog posts about on-set protocol recently. This is one of the better ones in my opinion: http://filmmakermagazine.com/92534-the-seven-arts-of-working-in-film/#.VS5wq62eDRZ
An interview in the field with Chris Watson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02npwg1
An old friend and teacher (although I suspect he might prefer a term like facilitator) sent me a link to the following Ted Talk video by Sugata Mitra that he found particularly inspiring and fits in with his way of thinking. It discusses a little about the history of our current model of schooling and … Read more The future of learning
I came across an interesting open-source “sequencer for digital art” called Iannix. It is quite versatile for creative use, but is essentially a way of interfacing digital drawing or art with sound synthesis. Check it out at: http://www.iannix.org/
If you’re a Mac Mail user and you use IMAP with your web hosting email, you can run into an issue where your Sent emails won’t save to the server (or anywhere for that matter) when you set up your Mail account. There are lots of possibilities for things to go wrong, but I found … Read more Fixing Mac Mail Sent Items
Here is a neat Animagraff that shows how convential cone speaker drivers work: http://animagraffs.com/loudspeaker/
The Burns Film Center has a really neat Visual Glossary which includes some film term definitions, along with great examples from proper commercial feature films. Pretty neat. The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is a nonprofit cultural arts center dedicated to teaching literacy for a visual culture; presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world … Read more Burns Film Center Visual Glossary
Fairly amusing (and true)…