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Picture editor- sound designer relationship/ workflow

I am a film editing student and I have never worked with a specialist sound designer before. I want to know about the relationship between a picture editor and a sound designer. In other words, I ...
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Reaper and iZotope RX --> workflow issue

Hi there, I use a combination of Reaper and Izotope RX to clean some audio tracks of a bunch of video clips. I need both the the spectral tools of izotope of and the multitrack sequencing and the ...
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Sound Design & 5.1

This may be a really stupid question, but here goes.... I'm fairly new to sound design for film. That is films that are going to be in theaters. I'm a little confused as to the relationship between ...
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Field Recordists: What is your post workflow?

Hi to all you field recordists out there: What sort of post-recording processing do you normally do on your recorded material. Specifically stuff you plan to put into your library and use down-the-...
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Soundfile descriptions are only in the Metadata - Is there an easy way of working with these?

I've got a bunch of sounds which only have descriptions in the Metadata of the file. The actual file names are mostly just numbers - S0100583449.wav or similar. Searching through this part of the ...
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Workflow for exchanging "temp mixes" remotely.

Curious.... I am about to start a project for a remote client (I'm in Minneapolis, they're in California). This, admittedly, is one of my first contracts that will have no "personal" contact. All ...
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recording dialogue for animation

I typed this up in response to a gearslutz thread, but I figured it could find a home here as well. The question was: "what tips do you have for recording dialogue for animation?" here are my ...
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SFX Editing & Layering - Audiosuite or Inserts?

Hi everyone, When you're cutting and layering multiple sounds in order to achieve a desired effect, how would you normally apply any plugin processing that's required? At the moment, I'm working on ...
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Anyone ever get a an OMF from Premier successfully into Pro Tools?

I've had nothing but trouble for the past few weeks trying to get this figured out. Its a feature film that got trimmed down to 64 minutes and I haven't been able to get it into a decent Pro Tools ...
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Creating Timelines

Hey all, I'm working on a new project that's much more abstract than what I usually work on. I'd like to approach the sound design more as a musical composition than a simple description of what I'm ...
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What kind of OMF do I ask for from my Editor?

Hey Everybody, I worked on a feature over the past summer and now its time for me to do post on the film. The editor gave me an OMF but when I went to a buddies house to import it into Pro Tools, ...
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top 8 foley pit surfaces?

imagine you had a pair of foley pits that were 8 feet long, 2 feet wide, and about a foot deep. each pit would be divided into 4 parts. the middle space between the pits would be exposed ...
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Miniminer workflow?

After using SoundMiner v4pro for years, I have put miniminer on my machine at home. I had been in the habit of keeping a hand on the fader for the SM Engine aux track in Pro Tools. This way I can ...
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The Boring Stuff - Bookkeeping: Do you do it? Which program do you use?

Hi Folks, Due to a recent change in philosophy, and the realisation that I am making a living only doing sound, I realised that I needed to do some proper bookkeeping to get a handle on when, where, ...
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cutting multiple hard synced layered events - workflow

Assume that you're looking at a scene with dozens of hard synced events that need a few layers of sound per event. Something like a fistfight or a shootout. What's your specific workflow for finding ...
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PT10 & Soundminer V4.3 Pro

Hi guys, Has anyone tried running sm v4.3 pro with PT 10? Any issues? Many thanks Rada
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Reconforming workflow

Hello hello, I know there are a few related threads about re-conforming to new picture cuts on the board but they've only really been nibbled at, and I'm keen to hear about people's re-conforming ...
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Jack Of All Trades, Master of...Some?

I've spent my entire career here in Washington, DC. As some of you know, I'll be headed out to LA in January. With that on the horizon, workflow, the division of labor, & the responsibilities of ...
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Mouse Alternative Workflows

I have been experiencing a massive amount of pain in my wrist and my shoulder and I feel like I really need to figure out a new solution for editing audio for days on end without going numb! I've ...
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cutting foley/footsteps through compression?

Anyone do this? We're looking to tweak our chain somewhat, and one of the more obvious things is to go ahead and compress some of those quick transients out on the cut side of foley and footsteps. ...
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Worry about broadcast specs on LtRt/LoRo fold-downs?

Alright, so this one is for my fellow TV-post fader jockeys out there. I've never really found a solid answer to this, not even from some of the networks we sell to (I wish we actually sold more to ...
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Best Comprehensive Location Equipment for £5000?

Hi guys, I'm wondering what you guys would pick if you wanted a comprehensive recording kit for small films, documentaries and SFX recording with a £5000 budget? I already have a NTG-3 shotgun mic ...
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Audio Workflow for Drama Production

Hi all I appreciate that every audio project is different, but I was wondering how audio is captured and what is the general audio workflow signal on bigger budget drama/tv productions? I have only ...
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Templates and workflow

I'm thinking specifically for pro tools but feel free to chime in if you use another DAW. I'm curious to see how many and what kinds of templates you all have set up for day to day work. Any info or ...
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FMOD Studio 2011

Hello everyone, I asked a question a week or so ago about audio programming and my interest in becoming a dedicated audio implementer; recently I was on FMODs site and read about the sweet new ...
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Workflow Question: Batch splitting stereo tracks into mono?

I have files recorded on a Zoom H4N, the files are stereo, lav recorded to left channel and and shotgun microphone recorded to the right channel. Is there a program (ideally that works on a mac) for ...
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Building the soundtrack

A while back I had the opportunity to work directly with Sound Editor Richard Hymns - we flew him in an he and I spent about 3 days in my studio working with me to tweak some sound editing + design ...
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How much does your mood affect your work/creative accuracy?

When you are working on a film and creating everything…do you find that your mood affects your ideas and work/creativity? Sometimes you might be in a blistery mood which might bring you to cut ...
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Podcasting considerations

I record and edit a lot of short to medium length VO, however the opportunity's come up to look in to doing some slightly longer form productions - specifically, podcasts of about 20 minutes in length....
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CEDARs on Dub Stages

Quick question about anyone who has been around dialogue mixing on a stage for a feature: I'm looking at purchasing a hardware CEDAR system for a new studio being built. It only has 2 channels of ...
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From DAW to Game Engine. There must be a better way!

Hey game audio folks. I'm wondering what you do. Here's what I'm looking at: alt text http://www.wraughk.com/DropboxPermanent/SSD1.png Here's what's happening. I have a sound effect that I've mixed ...
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Procrastinate Schmrocrastinate

So, we all love our gigs/hobbies, right? We have devoted our lives to hearing beyond the capabilities of a normal human being. We work our ears to the bone getting everything right all the time. ...
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work and reconform or wait?

Say you're working on audio to a CGI/animation project on a tight schedule. On top of all rendered images there's a layer of title graphics which also need their own sounds (now missing). Deadline is ...
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workflow: spotting with the client

Of course every project and every client is different, but I'd like to know what tools/techniques people use when spotting projects with clients? As a general definition here, lets define spotting as ...
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KORE Users - what are your favorite soundpacks/-FX? what's your workflow?

just interested because I'm planning to maybe get another soundpack since I was quite astonished by the quality of "Acoustic Refractions". I use those quite a lot as a source of inspiration. what's ...
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Post project archival

The sound design documentation question has me thinking about something that I don't really put much effort into, though maybe I should. Lets say you've just wrapped a long, in-depth sound design ...
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Working with video: What tools can't you live without?

Working with video requires working with a good set of tools. These are some "can't live with-out" applications for Mac OS X Media Mac Info (Can tell you everything you need to know about and audio ...
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Slates and jamming time code

We've run into a little bit of a conundrum here at work. We're still going to do more testing, and I'm sure we'll be able to figure it out, but I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has experienced ...
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How to make a sound 4D?

Does anybody have some insight in how to make a sound 4D? Genaudio has a few apps that make your sound 4D. I met the Genaudio Plugin Manager one time at a seminar he did in San Francisco. After ...
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Workflow: Getting sounds into your library.

Sound design is like cooking in a lot of ways. When you cook a giant meal, it's a lot of fun. But the clean-up is boring. What they say when you're learning to cook is that you have to clean-up as you ...
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What is the workflow for audio post for TV?

Hi I am a university student currently writing my dissertation on the audio post production process for television ( and specifically drama). I was just wondering if anyone answer any of the ...
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Essential smartphone apps for field recording?

I personally have an iphone and I use the living heck out it when going out for a shoot - planned or otherwise. Here's my list: Maps Top of my list. I use it to bookmark locations that may or may ...
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Digicart File Transfers

This question is for anyone who has experience with 360 Systems' Digicart. There are some ideas floating around on how we can make use of this nice, expensive, television studio we have at work. We'...
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Sound Design and Composition

For those among you who do both sound design AND composition, when you're doing both for one project, which do you start with? Obviously they will affect each other in the end product, but I'm finding ...
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Backing up stems

A few related questions have been asked before, but I can't find any threads discussing Stems and backup practices in a more focused manner. I'm just curious as to what all of your practices are after ...
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Compact Flash Cards for Deva 5.8

This is probably a bit specific for most people on here, but I'm looking into using compact flash cards as a mirroring solution for our Deva 5.8 at work. Does anyone know if there is a capacity ...
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Planning process - What's your workflow?

Hey guys, So I'm starting work on some audio reskins of game trailers, both for practice and to create some content for my resume. I was wondering how you guys go about planning what you're going to ...
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BWF import to PT LE doesn't recognize timestamp

Hey people! Yesterday I finished the score for a short film I'm working on. I exported all the cues, each track as stereo BWF, so the sound designer doesn't need to relocate them manually. The ...
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Linking to Source Media in Final Cut OMFs

We're hammering out some workflow issues in prep for a new television series here at work, and I was just wondering, has anyone had any success in creating an OMF in Final Cut that links to the source ...
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Question about SFX Workflow

Yep, it´s workflow question time again, so: when you create a sound effect, are you saving a file for every sound you create? I am not talking about the finished soundfile but the file that is used to ...