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Producing Great Sound for Digital Video educates beginning and experienced filmmakers on the intricacies of creating an outstanding soundtrack, from preproduction planning through the final mix.
The entire book is fascinating: it's absolutely packed with useful information and tips. Most of us remember learning in high school physics that sound travels about 1,100 feet per second, but besides gauging the location of a lightning bolt from how long it takes for the thunder to reach our ears, we never found it useful. Imagine, however, shooting a scene from about 90 feet away with a camera-mounted microphone. In this scenario, the audio will lag behind the image by about three frames--not much, but it's certainly noticeable. The problem gets worse as the distance increases. The workaround is to put a microphone next to the subject or slide the audio track so that it syncs with the images.
The book presents other solutions to showstopping problems that, because of lack of experience, a filmmaker wouldn't realize until getting to the editing room. Other critical issues such as preproduction planning, the art of production and recording (including environmental factors and microphone setups), and post-production editing and effects are also discussed.
The advent of low-cost, high-quality video production equipment has ushered in the birth of AV producers and AV presenters who have grand intentions but negligible experience. Digital cameras, inexpensive computers capable of capturing and playing back high-quality digital video, and full-featured editing software offer all kinds of ways to create visual eye candy, but embryonic filmmakers don't always realize that the picture is only half the story. Producing Great Sound for Digital Video explains how the other half works, what to watch out for, and how to achieve professional results. --Mike Caputo
Book News, Inc.
A book/CD-ROM guide explaining hundreds of real-world techniques to use in producing sound for digital video, from preproduction through mix. Coverage encompasses how to record and edit dialogue, music and sound effects editing, and special processing needs of broadcast projects. Operations are explained in detail, with tips and techniques from the trenches, plus tutorials on key skills. The accompanying CD-ROM contains sample tracks and diagnostic tools. The author is creative director of a boutique studio specializing in post-production audio. Useful for video producers and engineers. -- Copyright © 2000 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved
S.D. Katz, millimeter magazine, February 2003
"Digital artists are very much hands-on, and Rose is the right man to write audio books for this new generation."
John Hartney, Creativecow.net
...a treasure chest. Jay has written a delicious compilation of tips and tutorials that I can honestly recommend...
Book Description
Make your video project sound as good as it looks with this complete audio training course. You get hundreds of professional, real-world techniques that you can employ from pre-production through the final mix. This is a solution-oriented guide with FAQs, how-tos, tips, and time savers. The audio CD features platform-independent diagnostics, demonstrations, and tutorial tracks that you can use to hone your skills. You get a primer on how sound and digital audio work as well as technical setups, guidelines, and real solutions for: · budgeting, scheduling, and pre-production planning · microphones and room acoustics · recording dialog, voice-overs, ADR, and effects · postproduction hardware · levels and digitizing · working with music and sound effects · producing the final mix New in this edition-an expanded section on audio at the shoot, including: · choosing the right microphone · boom, lav, and wireless techniques · getting the best sound from prosumer cameras · double-system recording
From the Publisher
Industry pros are talking about Producing Great Sound for Digital Video: "The most comprehensive, in-depth resource I've found for audio production in the desktop environment. A must-have for anyone involved in video, multimedia, or Internet production." -- Randy Cates, Videography "This is an invaluable collection of step-by-step information combined with the technical reasons things do or don't work." -- Dominic Milano, Digital Video "A crisp, tight, practical how-to book; production insights and experience just leap off the page." -- Dave Moulton, TV Technology; author of "Golden Ears" training course
About the Author
Jay Rose is a nationally respected sound designer and consultant whose Clio- and Emmy-winning career has included program opens for NBC and sound design for MGM. He has done broadcast and corporate video soundtracks for PBS, Turner, CBS, A&E Networks, IBM, Hewlett Packard, DEC, and John Hancock. He has also designed audio processing software for major broadcast manufacturers Orban and Eventide. Jay is the author of Audio Postproduction for Digital Video, a columnist for DV magazine, and popular lecturer at MacWorld, the DV Expo, and other industry gatherings. The tutorial section of his Web site averages 9,000 hits each week.
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