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This is a typical email from many loyal readers inquiring about where I’ve been since my final posting last year. It has been a while but I have been very busy and there have been a lot of great things happening. Now that some time has freed up I’ll get back to some serious postings. [...]
Jeff Toyne is a composer whose oeuvre includes feature films, many shorts — including two nominated for Academy Awards, composer for “The Two Coreys” on A&E and is renowned for his extensive orchestrations for Hollywood features such as District 9 and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. He splits his time between Vancouver and [...]
Owner of the newly formed company, Hear It – Clear It Music Supervision, Dominique Preyer, is an experienced music supervisor with a background in music publishing and songwriting. As head of the music department, he has music supervised over 35 films as well as serving as executive producer and producer on two short films. Dominique has [...]
Filed in Interviews, Sessions
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Also tagged Allied Post Audio, audio post, audio post production, Dominique Preyer, Geoffrey Woodhall, independent film, indie film, music clearance, music licensing, music publishing, music supervision, Music supervisor, sync rights
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
EQ is an essential tool in a mixers’ bag of tricks. EQ was developed as a way to “equalize” differing sources to sound similar. It can alter the frequency characteristics of a recorded sound. It can enhance recordings by boosting, reducing or even removing certain frequencies. The simplest and most common EQ are what used [...]
Filed in Audio Post, Sessions
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Also tagged Allied Post Audio, audio post production, EQ, equalization, Geoffrey Woodhall, independant film, indie film, noise reduction, notch filter, pass filter
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Chuck Martin, one of the busiest music editors in Hollywood took a moment to talk shop about what he does and how much he enjoys it.
WOODY: How did you get into post-production audio?
CHUCK: Music editing. That was my first and only jump into post-production audio, right into music editing. My wife was a music editor [...]
Sunday, December 28, 2008
The year-end Holidays are a time for giving and sharing and also oddly a time for crass commercial pushing of products, goods and services. In the spirit of those Holidays I’d like to offer some DVD titles that are, in my humble opinion, great projects and in need of support. INDIE film is a mercurial [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Ho hum – audio restoration … another audio tool to spend money on that isn’t a bright, shiny, fun toy. But if you have some severely compromised audio tracks you will be looking for a solution. iZotope’s RX is an excellent one.
I was recently mixing a broadcast project with some serious audio issues. These production [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
OMF files are an essential component for audio post workflow. OMF or Open Media Framework is a file format developed by Avid Technology as a way to more conveniently transfer digital data. It was originally released in 1990 and then updated in ’96 , it’s a standard and it’s a bit long in the tooth. [...]
Filed in Audio Post, Sessions
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Also tagged Allied Ppost Audio, audio post production, Avid, Final Cut Pro, Geoffrey Woodhall, independant film, indie film, OMF, sound design, sound editing
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Eric gave up a much valued lunch break to talk with us a bit about location audio. He has a vast amount of experience which includes recording live TV morning shows to feature films to game shows and to episodic television. Some notable recent highlights include “Scrubs”, “Big Love”, “Hannah Montana” and “Tenacious D – [...]
I have the pleasure of sharing this great interview with Monique Reymond a top Hollywood Foley artist. Monique was nominated for a prime time Emmy award for her work on the TV series “Survivor” (yes – they Foley Reality TV too, we’ll get into that) and this year won a 2008 Golden Reel Award for [...]