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A Glimpse at the New Plural Eyes 3

Posted on April 24, 2012 in Sound Design | No Comments

Dan Chung, the DSLR Newshooter talks to Bruce Sharpe of Singular software about the newly improved Plural Eyes – a plug in designed to quickly sync audio files and video files.

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Mr. Foley: A Man Stalked By A Personal Soundtrack Team

Posted on April 16, 2012 in Audio, Sound Design | No Comments

Mr Foley is an award winning short film directed by Dublin directing duo Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman aka D.A.D.D.Y. It’s a darkly funny but nightmarish scenario, a man wakes up in hospital with a group of sound artists soundtracking his life.

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6 Ways Directors Screw Sound Editors

Posted on April 6, 2012 in General Production, Sound Design | No Comments

Christian Bell outlines some of the bad sound habits of directors and how it makes post sound that much harder…

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Food for the Ears – Sound Designing “The Hunger Games”

Posted on April 5, 2012 in Sound Design | No Comments

Movie Director Gary Ross and his sound team including Supervising Sound Editor Lon Bender, Re-recording Mixer Michael Keller, and Re-recording Mixer Mike Prestwood Smith discuss their approach to creating the lush soundscapes for this highly anticipated film adaptation.

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Auto-ADR in Adobe Audtion CS6

Posted on March 29, 2012 in Sound Design | 1 Comment

Automatic Dialogue Replacement or Over-dubbing may get a considerably easier as demonstrated here in this sneak preview of Adobe Audition CS6:

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How Alan Menken “scored” 8 Oscars

Posted on February 27, 2012 in Music, Sound Design | No Comments

Alan Menken’s music for Disney movies has won him eight Academy Awards, more than any one alive. Martha Teichner of CBS News discusses the composer’s work for movies and theater, including an excerpt of the upcoming Broadway musical “Leap of Faith.”

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The Sound of HUGO

Posted on February 16, 2012 in Sound Design | No Comments

In this SoundWorks Collection video profile, producer Michael Coleman sits down with the oscar nominated sound team of HUGO including co-supervising sound editor Philip Stockton, co-supervising sound editor Eugene Gearty, and re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman.

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The Sound of “Drive”

Posted on December 16, 2011 in Sound Design | No Comments

In this SoundWorks Collection video, Supervising Sound Editor Lon Bender talks about his work on Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s film “Drive”.

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The Sound of The Muppets

Posted on December 1, 2011 in Sound Design | No Comments

In this SoundWorks Collection video they talk with “The Muppets” Director James Bobin, Film Editor James Thomas, Supervising Sound Editors Kami Asgar and Sean McCormack, and Sound Re-recording Mixer Kevin O’Connell.

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Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Interview with ‘Super 8′ Sound Designer Ben Burtt

Posted on November 22, 2011 in Sound Design | No Comments

Ben Burtt, the Supervising Sound Editor on J.J. Abrams’ ‘Super 8,’ talks about his connection to the film, the biggest audio moments, and his approach to the mixing process in a more general sense.

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Davyd, A.I. Remix by Pogo

Posted on November 15, 2011 in Sound Design | No Comments

Nick Bertcke (AKA Pogo) created this remix titled Davyd, using voices, chords and sound effects from Spielberg’s ‘AI: Artificial Intelligence’.

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Sound, a Short Film on how sound connects us to the world

Posted on October 20, 2011 in Audio, Music, Sound Design | 1 Comment

“Sound” is a short film on how sound connects us to the world, featuring musicians and sound experts Moby, Imogen Heap, and others. The video was created by the audio sharing platform SoundCloud.

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Normalizing the Volume in Adobe Premiere

Posted on October 17, 2011 in Sound Design | No Comments

Vimeo user RHED Pixel explains the different ways to gain control over your audio in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 – from normalizing peaks to using Premiere’s powerful Dynamics filter.

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The Sound and Music of Angry Birds

Posted on September 26, 2011 in Music, Sound Design | No Comments

The SoundWorks Collection sits down with currently the most listened to composer and sound designer in the world, Ari Pulkkinen the creator of the catchy Angry Birds theme.

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Edit audio, apply audio effects, remove vocals with Sony Vegas

Posted on September 22, 2011 in Sound Design | No Comments

In this video Guerilla Bill shows you the easy way to edit any portion of audio within your Sony Vegas and Movie Studio Projects. Add effects, remove vocals, use the audio editor.

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