Producing Great Sound for Digital Video, 2/e

Description:

Make your video project sound as good as it looks with this complete audio training course. You get hundreds of professional, real-world techniques that you can employ from pre-production through the final mix. This is a solution-oriented guide with FAQs, how-tos, tips, and time savers. The audio CD features platform-independent diagnostics, demonstrations, and tutorial tracks that you can use to hone your skills.

You get a primer on how sound and digital audio work as well as technical setups, guidelines, and real solutions for:

• budgeting, scheduling, and pre-production planning
• microphones and room acoustics
• recording dialog, voice-overs, ADR, and effects
• postproduction hardware
• levels and digitizing
• working with music and sound effects
• producing the final mix

New in this edition-an expanded section on audio at the shoot, including:

• choosing the right microphone
• boom, lav, and wireless techniques
• getting the best sound from prosumer cameras
• double-system recording

Clio-and Emmy-award-winning sound engineer Jay Rose is creative director of the

Digital Playroom. Specializing in post-production audio, his clients include PBS, Buena Vista Home Video, and Turner Network Television. Rose has written about audio for Videography, Recording, and Premiere Full Motion magazines.