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Jay Rose
Jay Rose CAS is a Clio- and Emmy-winning sound designer whose studio career has included program opens for NBC, documentaries and spots for PBS and MGM, videogames for Parker Brothers, and close to a thousand independent film and video projects. He's also programmed audio software for broadcast manufacturers Eventide and Orban, written a column for DV Magazine and a few best-selling books about sound for film and video, and been a section officer of the Audio Engineering Society. More tutorials, humor, and info about his studio at dplay.com. 
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Hilarious. Also true.QuickTime QuickiesFree BookVacuum PackedLiving with (Data) LossHearing What’s Not ThereDeep Throat, CetaceanSour NotesRequired (Re)readingRolling Your OwnThis month, PeasWrong, wrong!Make Her Sound Like I Love HerTime Out of Joint |
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Friday, August 29, 2008Hilarious. Also true.How to interpret ‘crew wanted’ ads Craigslist is a marvelous institution. There are editions for some 500 different cities, but you can still consider yourself lucky if you live near one. Among (lots of) other things, Craigslist has ads for temporary or permanent film/tv jobs. Some of those listings have more to do with a newbie director’s fantasies than anything real - no budget, no plans, no technique - but you learn to ignore them. more »Business • Pre-Production • Production • Training • (4) Comments • Most recent comments by: Download Movie, Reverse Phone Lookup, Mary Yurkovic, David, • Permalink Monday, August 25, 2008QuickTime QuickiesA couple of non-intuitive hacks for QuickTime audio
I’m a soundie. So I frequently have to send music samples, progressive mixes, and other pieces of track to directors or clients for approval. Since I’m also a lazy soundie, I’ve discovered a couple of ways to speed up the process… and save my clients a lot of download time. more »Audio • Distribution • Post Production • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: pccaudioprof, • Permalink Friday, August 22, 2008Free BookI seem to be a premium… I just learned that BeachTek is giving away copies of my recent Producing Great Sound for Film and Video (3rd Edition, Focal Press, March 2008), if you buy any of their products from their online store. more »Audio • Cameras • Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Tuesday, August 19, 2008Vacuum PackedCompress audio files without losing quality? You can, if you measure them the right way.
My last two blog tutorials discussed neural masking, and how an mp3 or AAC can be good enough for broadcast or film sound when you do it right. (If you followed the link to my website, you even got proof.) But sometimes, even AAC’s tiny losses can be too much: you might be sending elements that will be processed or compressed more, or be saving an archive. While most non-audio files can be successfully squeezed with Winzip or Stuffit, those processes behave strangely with audio. more » Audio • Distribution • Post Production • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: Mary Yurkovic, Travis, • Permalink Saturday, August 16, 2008Living with (Data) Lossmp3 and its cousins are a fact of life… here’s how to get the most out of them
If you do audio for the Web, broadcast, or movie theaters, sooner or later you’ll have to deal with some form of lossy data compression. But you don’t have to buy into the mp3 myths and hype. If you understand how those algorithms actually work - how they decide what data to lose - your tracks can sound a lot better. more » Audio • Distribution • Post Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Thursday, August 14, 2008Hearing What’s Not ThereSometimes, making data disappear can be acceptable
Ever wonder how magicians make a large object disappear, or a woman’s dress instantly change color? According to a study in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, cognitive scientists have been wondering as well. The scholarly, footnoted article explains magic tricks in terms of the visual and neurological quirks they rely on. It credits The Amazing Randi, The Great Tomsoni, and Teller (of “Penn and…”) as co-authors. It’s visually oriented - as is a lot of magic - but abracadabra: Here on the audio side, we’ve been benefitting from that kind of research for years. You can benefit, too. more » Audio • Post Production • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: JayR, billS, • Permalink Friday, August 01, 2008Deep Throat, CetaceanWhat whales consider sexy… and what’s really going on in the audio band.
Ask and you shall receive. A few weeks ago, I posted a blog entry about some fascinating research on how hormonal changes can affect the attractiveness of a woman’s voice. In the entry, I wondered if there was an equivalent phenomenon for male voices.
more » Audio • Post Production • (0) Comments • • Permalink Monday, July 28, 2008Sour NotesThe music revolution will not be televised.
A friend pointed me to an article in the New York Times, about new software that claims to change the pitch of just one string in a guitar chord. This isn’t a trivial task, since plucked strings don’t have just one frequency. There are harmonics extending up the band, mixing with harmonics of other notes. Anything that wants to adjust a single string has to sort them all out, first. more »Audio • Business • (9) Comments • Most recent comments by: Sproketz, Jessica, Lei Wawi Fakturierung, host1, drjays discounts, Mary Yurkovic, Sproketz, Mary Yurkovic, Sproketz, • Permalink |
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Revisiting the RED workflow, Smoke 2012 style
My love affair with RED Digital Cinema began in 2007, when my brief stint as demo artist in the NAB RED booth turned into a regular gig at events and trade shows. When I joined Autodesk as Product Designer to help bring Smoke to the Mac, I was quickly assigned to construct our first RED workflow. Back then, building a RED workflow meant exploring unchartered territory, but since then things changed rather quickly in the last couple years.
Avid now lets you edit video on your iPad for US$4.99. Should you?
A first look at Avid Studio for iPad, and an extrapolation as to what it can mean for pro video editors in the short and longer term.
I was privileged to find out a few hours in advance of the public announcement of Avid Studio for iPad, since Avid contracted me to translate and localize the press release, as fortunately they often do. There was something about this press release that really intrigued me. It wasn’t so much the specific advantages that Avid Studio for iPad has over other editing apps for iPad, like offering both Storyboard and Timeline views in a single iPad app, or being able to import source material from anywhere inside or outside of the iPad. It was more the fact that the announcement was coming from Avid, and the spirit of the two quotes that appear at the end of the press release. In this article, I’ll give a first look at the app, define what it is (and what it isn’t), and extrapolate about what this can mean for video editing in the short, mid, and long term. Of course, I’ll include those two quotes that intrigued me so much.
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