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How Dubbing Works

With the international box office nearly twice that of the domestic, dubbing English language films for foreign markets is serious business. But, have you ever wondered how dubbing works? Zachary Pincus-Roth of Slate has some insights into this mysterious process.

…James Cameron’s Avatar has earned over $440 million at […]

Professional Audio Editing with Adobe Audition

By Kevin Reylek
It feels like Adobe is fairly new to the audio editing game. While they’re the kings of photo editing, they’re not the first company you may think of when it comes to professional audio editing. However, they’ve been at it longer than you might think. With […]

Leveling a Tripod

“Gospel John” Hess demonstrates a simple and quick method of leveling a tripod.

WALL-E “A Space Journey in Sound”

In this behind-the-scenes clip, Andrew Stanton, Jim Morris, and Ben Burtt discuss the sound effects used in the film.
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? WALL?E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will […]

Preventing Plosives

From: digitaljuicetv - 5 tips to help prevent those painful plosives so you can record powerful, pop-free soundtracks.

Designing A Movie For Sound

The biggest myth about composing and sound designing is that they are about creating great sounds. Not true, or at least not true enough. Recommended by Member: Uncle Bob
…What is Sound Design? You may assume that it’s about fabricating neat sound effects. But that doesn’t describe […]

The Free Sound Project

The Free Sound Project is a huge, collaborative database of sound clips licensed for free sampling and remixing. Freesound focuses only on sound, not songs.
Search for sounds or browse the tag list, which includes “water,” “tick,” “toilet,” “children,” “screaming,” “kitchen,” “subway” and “sweep” - all sounds released under […]

Finding Sound FX

This segment explores the Digital Juice Sound FX library and show you how to find exactly what you need to finish your scene.

Selling it With Sound

It’s not what you see, but what you HEAR that sells most scenes… And most of what you hear when you go to the movies or watch TV was created with Sound FX. Whether you need to sound out the literal, imply existence or add ambience… Sound fx are a […]

Worldizing: a sound design concept by Walter Murch

Manipulating sound until it seemed to be something that existed in real space. This refers to playing back existing recordings through a speaker or speakers in real-world acoustic situations, and recording that playback with microphones so that the new recording takes on the acoustic characteristics of the place it was […]