For decades, the fastest way to find sound effects was to look them up in a book. These Sound Ideas Sound Effects Catalogs indexed every CD and sound effect from the Canadian stock media publisher. Sound editors had to flip through pages to find what they needed. Thank goodness that’s no longer the case. Sound […]
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Metadata App News: Soundly, Soundminer, Resonic, BaseHead, & Search Updates
Sound designers have received some power ups to their workflows lately. With a wave of updates to sound browsing software, editors have fresh and improved ways to find, process, and curate their sound collections. We last looked at metadata news in December. Let’s see what has changed.
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Pro Sound Effects Announces Upcoming “Search” Sound FX App
Web shop Pro Sound Effects has long been the home for a la carte clip downloads as well as large libraries of sound fx. Last week they announced Search, an upcoming app that allows editors to find and transfer sound fx.
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Fixing Field Recordings with Absentia DX: A First Look
I experienced a series of surprises while browsing my Twitter feed earlier last month. The first was an announcement of Todd-AO’s new dialogue noise reduction software, Absentia DX. The second was that it was produced by respected Hollywood sound supervisor and field recordist Rob Nokes. The third was that it was priced at $49. Now, […]
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Crafting Sound in Spaces: A New Sound Design Tool + Interview
Imagine you are sitting in the darkness of a mixing theatre. You’re attending a spotting session for a television series. The current episode features a gun battle. The director stops the playback and shares notes for a World War II flashback-style sequence. He is imagining a sound design tableau of explosions. As the director explains, […]
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New Soundminer Blog + Updates
Did you know that there is a Soundminer blog? Previously, fans of the metadata app could find updates on the Code Destructor forum. That was a good way to interact with the developers themselves, and share ideas with other sound pros. Now the crew at Soundminer have created an easier way
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