Book description
New to this edition:* Learn how many Hollywood techniques--previously impractical on video--can help solve problems on smaller productions
* Expanded cookbook recipes section
* Technically updated throughout
Make your soundtracks as good as your pictures with this compendium of professional audio techniques that can be adapted to desktop post. Specializing in sound after the shoot, this book features many practical examples, cookbook recipes, and tutorials. Audio theory, when necessary, is presented in plain English with plenty of visual analogies.
FAQs, full explanations, and from-the-trenches tips address the complete range of processes from wiring and hardware to testing the final mix. The one-hour audio CD features platform-independent diagnostics, demonstrations, and tutorial tracks. Novices will learn how to improve their soundtrack--even after the actors have gone home. Experienced producers will learn how to solve technical and creative problems quickly.
You'll get recipes and step-by-step instructions on how to:
* build an efficient and reliable audio post setup
* plan and budget a good soundtrack
* get sound into your NLE without losing quality or sync
* edit voices and music
* record Foley and ADR
* find music and use it effectively
* find and create your own sound effects
* shape sounds with equalization, reverb, noise reduction, and more
* produce the final mix
* test the final product for various media
Please visit the author's website for additional resources: http://www.dplay.com/book/app
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 Vibrations to Volts to Bits
- CHAPTER 2 The Studio: Acoustics and Monitoring
- CHAPTER 3 The Studio: Equipment and Wiring
- CHAPTER 4 The Studio: Audio Software
- CHAPTER 5 Planning the Track
- CHAPTER 6 Getting Audio into the Computer
- CHAPTER 7 Voiceover Recording a Dialog Replacement
- CHAPTER 8 Editing Dialog
- CHAPTER 9 Finding and Editing Music
- CHAPTER 10 Working with Sound Effects
- CHAPTER 11 Equalization
- CHAPTER 12 Dynamics Control
- CHAPTER 13 Time-Domain Effects
- CHAPTER 14 Time and Pitch Manipulation
- CHAPTER 15 Noise Reduction
- CHAPTER 16 Other Effects
- CHAPTER 17 The Mix
- CHAPTER 18 After the Mix
- CHAPTER 19 Help!
- Appendix A: GLOSSARY
- Appendix B: ABOUT THE CD
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Audio Postproduction for Film and Video, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2012
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136061172
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