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 came across an interesting list of sound effects and how to make them on Epic Sound’s blog. Some of these are classic sound design elements, while some of them are quite abstract. Check it out at: http://www.epicsound.com/sfx/?hc_location=ufi
An interview in the field with Chris Watson: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02npwg1
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/
The By George Studios short film which I completed audio post on in December has made the Official Selection at Byron Bay International Film Festival. Great work by George, Robb and everyone else who contributed, and hopefully plenty more film festival appearances to come.
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)…
Pretty cool old short film showing the role of the “Soundman” for motion picture making:
A good little reminder about The McGurk Effect: http://designingsound.org/2014/12/hearing-lips-and-seeing-voices-the-mcgurk-effect/
For general video stuff I do I often lean on the H.264 codec as it tends to produce high quality at relatively small file sizes for most standard video stuff, however it is not always the best choice for everything, including using for video in Pro Tools post sessions. Randy Coppinger has written about some … Read more Video Codecs and Pro Tools