http://provideocoalition.com/index.php en jaypvc@dplay.com Copyright 2008 2008-08-29T17:19:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/craigsdefs/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/craigsdefs/#When:17:19:00Z 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. Business, Pre-Production, Production, Training 2008-08-29T17:19:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/quicktime_quickies/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/quicktime_quickies/#When:16:02:00Z 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. Audio, Distribution, Post Production 2008-08-25T16:02:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/free_book/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/free_book/#When:16:09:00Z 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. Audio, Cameras, Production 2008-08-22T16:09:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/vacuum_packed/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/vacuum_packed/#When:01:13:00Z 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. Audio, Distribution, Post Production 2008-08-20T01:13:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/living_data_loss/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/living_data_loss/#When:22:19:00Z 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. Audio, Distribution, Post Production 2008-08-16T22:19:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/hearing_whats_not_there/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/hearing_whats_not_there/#When:18:45:00Z 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. Audio, Post Production 2008-08-14T18:45:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/deep_throat_cetacean/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/deep_throat_cetacean/#When:15:08:00Z 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. Audio, Post Production 2008-08-01T15:08:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/sour_notes/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/sour_notes/#When:20:17:00Z 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.  Audio, Business 2008-07-28T20:17:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/required_rereading/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/required_rereading/#When:23:18:00Z What do Ratatouille, The Simpsons Movie, What Lies Beneath, Cast Away, and Forrest Gump have in common? You can add a couple of dozen other titles to the list, including Howard the Duck and some of the Harry Potter movies, if that’ll help. Give up? Audio 2008-07-27T23:18:00-08:00 http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/rolling_your_own/ http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/jrose/rolling_your_own/#When:21:11:00Z When I started, an audio room was a collection of tape recorders, rack-mount processors, and a console. (Software? You wore a cotton shirt so it would stay comfortable through an 18-hour session.) Audio, Post Production 2008-07-22T21:11:00-08:00