Producing Great Sound for Digital Video - Softcover

Rose, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879305975 ISBN 13: 9780879305970

Publisher: Focal Press, 1999

Synopsis

Make your video project sound as good as it looks! Written by Digital Video columnist and Clio-winning sound designer Jay Rose, this book explains hundreds of real-world techniques to use from pre-production through mix. You get how-toÕs, tips and time-savers, plus tutorials on key skills such as dialog and music editing. With an audio CD of sample tracks and diagnostic tools, this is a complete audio training resource as well as a quick problem-solving guide.

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Review:

Producing Great Sound for Digital Video educates beginning and experienced filmmakers on the intricacies of creating an outstanding soundtrack, from preproduction planning through the final mix.

The entire book is fascinating: it's absolutely packed with useful information and tips. Most of us remember learning in high school physics that sound travels about 1,100 feet per second, but besides gauging the location of a lightning bolt from how long it takes for the thunder to reach our ears, we never found it useful. Imagine, however, shooting a scene from about 90 feet away with a camera-mounted microphone. In this scenario, the audio will lag behind the image by about three frames--not much, but it's certainly noticeable. The problem gets worse as the distance increases. The workaround is to put a microphone next to the subject or slide the audio track so that it syncs with the images.

The book presents other solutions to showstopping problems that, because of lack of experience, a filmmaker wouldn't realize until getting to the editing room. Other critical issues such as preproduction planning, the art of production and recording (including environmental factors and microphone setups), and post-production editing and effects are also discussed.

The advent of low-cost, high-quality video production equipment has ushered in the birth of AV producers and AV presenters who have grand intentions but negligible experience. Digital cameras, inexpensive computers capable of capturing and playing back high-quality digital video, and full-featured editing software offer all kinds of ways to create visual eye candy, but embryonic filmmakers don't always realize that the picture is only half the story. Producing Great Sound for Digital Video explains how the other half works, what to watch out for, and how to achieve professional results. --Mike Caputo

From the Publisher:

Industry pros are talking about Producing Great Sound for Digital Video:

"The most comprehensive, in-depth resource I've found for audio production in the desktop environment. A must-have for anyone involved in video, multimedia, or Internet production." -- Randy Cates, Videography

"This is an invaluable collection of step-by-step information combined with the technical reasons things do or don't work." -- Dominic Milano, Digital Video

"A crisp, tight, practical how-to book; production insights and experience just leap off the page." -- Dave Moulton, TV Technology; author of "Golden Ears" training course

About this edition

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0879305975
• ISBN 13: 9780879305970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 349