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, […]
Continue Reading 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
Continue Reading Last week Basehead released a new version of their sound effect browsing software. While the latest version, Basehead 4, was previously available for PC users, the July 2 announcement was the first 4.x release of the sound clip management app compatible with the Mac platform (OS X 10.6 – 10.10). I mentioned Basehead in an […]
Continue Reading Every year thousands gather in Nevada to attend the NAB convention. Spread throughout multiple venues in downtown Las Vegas, the week-long event showcases new technologies, software, and other resources for the National Association of Broadcasters. While the convention doesn’t cater specifically to post sound or game audio, NAB has become a way for discover new […]
Continue Reading Avid has just announced two software releases at NAMM 2015: Pro Tools | First and Pro Tools 12. Details are still emerging about the new sound editing apps. Today’s post takes a quick look at what we know so far.
Continue Reading It seems like just a few months ago that I wrote an article comparing iZotope’s RX3 audio restoration software with its predecessor, RX2. At that time, RX2 had been known as a respected tool for polishing troublesome audio. The software hadn’t seen a major update in years, however. So, last year’s announcement of RX3 was […]
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