Multitrack Editing in Sony Sound Forge 10 By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Sound Forge has always excelled at being a solid and dependable mono and two-track recorder and editor. Version 9 of the software brought multichannel support which many people misinterpreted to mean multitrack functionality. Multichannel really means the program can handle files beyond stereo such as 5.1 surround sound files.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro By Jeffrey P. Fisher
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
iZotope RX Noise Reduction Tips By Jeffrey P. Fisher
As an audio-post-production professional, I'm often called upon to clean up the dialogue from the documentary, corporate, and narrative videos that come my way. The work requires a lot of patience and access to both basic and advanced audio tools. For me, the one must-have gizmo for audio cleanup is iZotope RX. This tutorial looks at ways this indispensable tool solves typical noisy problems that conspire to ruin your video soundtracks.
...Read More »
Apple's Soundtrack Pro 3 By Kevin McAuliffe
Soundtrack Pro 2 was a great application. You could harness its power for not only Final Cut Pro timelines, but for any editing application that could export an OMF file. What Apple had essentially given us was a professional, production-ready application to take any audio project to the next level. But, I had one concern. Where would it go from there?
...Read More »
Shooters Post & Transfer Creates 'Defining Moments' For MASN
Shooters Post & Transfer, the full-service creative post house, stepped up big-time for MASN, (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), the Baltimore, MD-based regional sports network owned jointly by the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, handling the production with a cast of real fans, and the complex post production that centered on creating intricate 3D virtual sets that evoked the iconic look of Camden Yards and Nationals Park -- the home stadiums for Orioles and Nationals respectively. The 20-spot branding campaign was created by the Washington, DC-based agency Rosenthal Partners, and directed by Peter Churchman of Churchman Productions, Ardmore, PA.
...Read More »
Explosion Robinson Scores Show Open for VH1's New Reality Series 'The T.O. Show'
NFL star receiver Terrell Owens has two sides: good-natured, happy-go-lucky Terrell and the cocky, brash superstar who prefers to go simply by his initials T.O. Both personalities are on view in VH1's new reality series The T.O. Show, and thanks to Explosion Robinson, the custom music and sound design shop founded by Stephen Hermann, you hear them equally well in the show's open.
...Read More »
Building a Better Mouse: Contour Design RollerMouse Free By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Like me, you've probably been mousing around for some time. You may have even tried some mouse alternatives, such as tablets, trackballs, and their ilk. But, eventually you found yourself back with the mouse in hand. I know, it's not an easy habit to break. But now there is an alternative that is well worth considering: the Contour Design RollerMouse Free.
...Read More »
BOND Audio Sounds Good With New Heineken Beer Campaign
Building on the general market campaign for Heineken featuring actor John Turturro, BOND Audio's Sound Designer/Engineer Joe Casalino teamed with agency The Vidal Partnership to create a similar eight-spot featuring actor Nestor Carbonell, known to many for his role on the TV show Lost and in the hit movie The Dark Knight.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Keyboard shortcuts By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses Soundbooth's customizability, and specifically Soundbooth's keyboard shortcuts. He shows how to save your own personal keyboard shortcuts, enhancing your productivity.
...Read More »
Blue Room Shoots Five Spots For NFL.Com Fantasy Files and Reebok
Produced by Blue Room, the award-winning NFL Fantasy Files have been reopened. Filmed for NFL.com and Reebok, the viral campaign began rolling out one spot a week on July 20 on NFL.com, NFL Network s Total Access and Reebok.com. Designed to incite fantasy football signups and interest for NFL.com, the series of five :30 spots features NFL stars: Joe Flacco (Baltimore Ravens), Santonio Holmes (Pittsburgh Steelers), Maurice Jones-Drew (Jacksonville Jaguars), Darren Sproles (San Diego Chargers) and Kevin Boss (NY Giants).
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part II (Playlist) By Jeffrey P. Fisher
In the previous article, we looked at using Sound Forge's project file format for non-destructive audio editing. Here we'll look at the Playlist feature which also lends itself to editing your work without affecting the file and therefore protecting your valuable original data.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: History Panel and Snapshots By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the history panel, which enables you to go to any point in time in your audio editing process and selectively undo any tweak that you've made to the project. He also covers the Snapshots tool as well.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part I (Project Files) By Jeffrey P. Fisher
When using Sound Forge for audio editing, clean-up, and mastering, you typically work directly on the original file. While you do have undo commands, once you save a file you make a permanent, destructive change to it. Most people get around this limitation (and potentially dangerous situation) by working on a copy of the original.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Task Panel and effects By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the task panel and the tools that enable you to change the pitch and timing, clean up audio, create loops, remove a sound, and volume correction. He also covers the effects rack and the various effects available in Soundbooth.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Preferences By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm takes a look under the hood of SOundbooth's feature set to see what can be customized for advanced users. He covers the preferences field, and covers the custom time format, the display (hours mintues, seconds, frames), scores folder, the Preferences radio buttons, and more.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Panels Palette By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the panels and dockable palettes in Soundbooth CS4. He shows how they work, how to hide panels in the workspace, how to move the panels, how to arrange panels for easier access, and how to create a custom workspace with your panels and saving that workspace. He also shows how to go back to the default workspace.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Scoring video By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about Scores, which enable you to add music to projects that can be edited and customized for your job. he talks about the Video Panel and how add scores to your video. He also shows how to edit the scores to fit your video.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Resource Central By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the Resource Central panel, which provides registered users with a wealth of additional files for use in your Soundbooth projects as well as news and other resources related to Soundbooth. Sven gives a tour of Resource Central and how to search for such things as free sound effects and more.
...Read More »
Lenovo ThinkStation S20 workstation By John Virata
The Lenovo ThinkStation S20 is the company's mid range workstation that works well in a variety of creative environments, be it video and special effects creation to CAD and animation. Configured with the right graphics card, the unit will fit well in any creative environment. The S20 is larger than most mid-tower cases, and sports ample room inside for user upgrades.
...Read More »
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Bluetooth headsets have become more and more popular throughout the years and now more and more cell phones have been able to take advantage of this technology. In this review we'll be looking at a brand new Bluetooth headset from iTech, the SolarVoice 908, one of the first solar charging headsets on the market.
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Thank goodness you're a pack rat! You know, have to grab, keep everything that flies by...ok everything except that report or news item or YouTube yuck you saw last week and now desperately need. Can't find it it save your behind. And still you don't have enough storage...there are new worlds to conquer, new worlds to destroy or take home with you. Don't worry Flash will always be there for you Dale!!!!
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On this Veteran's Day 2009, as we honor those who served and gave their lives for America, there are stories about man's best friend being told by those who fought alongside their "War Dogs of the Pacific." Most Americans have no idea that dogs were trained to sniff out the enemy during World War II, 549 to be exact fought with the U.S. Marines on Guam, Saipan, and other battlegrounds of the Pacific Theater.
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Did you hear? Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows - should you buy it? Windows 7 is here. In this article you will find out if Windows 7 is worth the wait and whether or not you should upgrade. Or is Windows 7 just another Vista?
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Multitrack Editing in Sony Sound Forge 10
Sound Forge has always excelled at being a solid and dependable mono and two-track recorder and editor. Version 9 of the software brought multichannel support which many people misinterpreted to mean multitrack functionality. Multichannel really means the program can handle files beyond stereo such as 5.1 surround sound files.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
iZotope RX Noise Reduction Tips
As an audio-post-production professional, I'm often called upon to clean up the dialogue from the documentary, corporate, and narrative videos that come my way. The work requires a lot of patience and access to both basic and advanced audio tools. For me, the one must-have gizmo for audio cleanup is iZotope RX. This tutorial looks at ways this indispensable tool solves typical noisy problems that conspire to ruin your video soundtracks.
...Read More »
Apple's Soundtrack Pro 3
Soundtrack Pro 2 was a great application. You could harness its power for not only Final Cut Pro timelines, but for any editing application that could export an OMF file. What Apple had essentially given us was a professional, production-ready application to take any audio project to the next level. But, I had one concern. Where would it go from there?
...Read More »
Shooters Post & Transfer Creates 'Defining Moments' For MASN
Shooters Post & Transfer, the full-service creative post house, stepped up big-time for MASN, (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network), the Baltimore, MD-based regional sports network owned jointly by the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals, handling the production with a cast of real fans, and the complex post production that centered on creating intricate 3D virtual sets that evoked the iconic look of Camden Yards and Nationals Park -- the home stadiums for Orioles and Nationals respectively. The 20-spot branding campaign was created by the Washington, DC-based agency Rosenthal Partners, and directed by Peter Churchman of Churchman Productions, Ardmore, PA.
...Read More »
Explosion Robinson Scores Show Open for VH1's New Reality Series 'The T.O. Show'
NFL star receiver Terrell Owens has two sides: good-natured, happy-go-lucky Terrell and the cocky, brash superstar who prefers to go simply by his initials T.O. Both personalities are on view in VH1's new reality series The T.O. Show, and thanks to Explosion Robinson, the custom music and sound design shop founded by Stephen Hermann, you hear them equally well in the show's open.
...Read More »
Building a Better Mouse: Contour Design RollerMouse Free
Like me, you've probably been mousing around for some time. You may have even tried some mouse alternatives, such as tablets, trackballs, and their ilk. But, eventually you found yourself back with the mouse in hand. I know, it's not an easy habit to break. But now there is an alternative that is well worth considering: the Contour Design RollerMouse Free.
...Read More »
BOND Audio Sounds Good With New Heineken Beer Campaign
Building on the general market campaign for Heineken featuring actor John Turturro, BOND Audio's Sound Designer/Engineer Joe Casalino teamed with agency The Vidal Partnership to create a similar eight-spot featuring actor Nestor Carbonell, known to many for his role on the TV show Lost and in the hit movie The Dark Knight.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Keyboard shortcuts
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses Soundbooth's customizability, and specifically Soundbooth's keyboard shortcuts. He shows how to save your own personal keyboard shortcuts, enhancing your productivity.
...Read More »
Blue Room Shoots Five Spots For NFL.Com Fantasy Files and Reebok
Produced by Blue Room, the award-winning NFL Fantasy Files have been reopened. Filmed for NFL.com and Reebok, the viral campaign began rolling out one spot a week on July 20 on NFL.com, NFL Network s Total Access and Reebok.com. Designed to incite fantasy football signups and interest for NFL.com, the series of five :30 spots features NFL stars: Joe Flacco (Baltimore Ravens), Santonio Holmes (Pittsburgh Steelers), Maurice Jones-Drew (Jacksonville Jaguars), Darren Sproles (San Diego Chargers) and Kevin Boss (NY Giants).
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Metadata and Properties panel
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers metadata and how it provides a customizable way of cataloging, sorting and searching your files, making metadata files an integral part of your project management.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part II (Playlist)
In the previous article, we looked at using Sound Forge's project file format for non-destructive audio editing. Here we'll look at the Playlist feature which also lends itself to editing your work without affecting the file and therefore protecting your valuable original data.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: History Panel and Snapshots
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the history panel, which enables you to go to any point in time in your audio editing process and selectively undo any tweak that you've made to the project. He also covers the Snapshots tool as well.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part I (Project Files)
When using Sound Forge for audio editing, clean-up, and mastering, you typically work directly on the original file. While you do have undo commands, once you save a file you make a permanent, destructive change to it. Most people get around this limitation (and potentially dangerous situation) by working on a copy of the original.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Task Panel and effects
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the task panel and the tools that enable you to change the pitch and timing, clean up audio, create loops, remove a sound, and volume correction. He also covers the effects rack and the various effects available in Soundbooth.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Preferences
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm takes a look under the hood of SOundbooth's feature set to see what can be customized for advanced users. He covers the preferences field, and covers the custom time format, the display (hours mintues, seconds, frames), scores folder, the Preferences radio buttons, and more.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Panels Palette
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the panels and dockable palettes in Soundbooth CS4. He shows how they work, how to hide panels in the workspace, how to move the panels, how to arrange panels for easier access, and how to create a custom workspace with your panels and saving that workspace. He also shows how to go back to the default workspace.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Scoring video
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about Scores, which enable you to add music to projects that can be edited and customized for your job. he talks about the Video Panel and how add scores to your video. He also shows how to edit the scores to fit your video.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Resource Central
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the Resource Central panel, which provides registered users with a wealth of additional files for use in your Soundbooth projects as well as news and other resources related to Soundbooth. Sven gives a tour of Resource Central and how to search for such things as free sound effects and more.
...Read More »
Lenovo ThinkStation S20 workstation
The Lenovo ThinkStation S20 is the company's mid range workstation that works well in a variety of creative environments, be it video and special effects creation to CAD and animation. Configured with the right graphics card, the unit will fit well in any creative environment. The S20 is larger than most mid-tower cases, and sports ample room inside for user upgrades.
...Read More »
AV-HS450 16+ Input HD/SD Switcher w/ dual screen MultiViewer
Perfect your production with iStock video and audio
Vegas Pro 8 + Free Vegas Seminar Series
