Multitrack Editing in Sony Sound Forge 10 By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Sound Forge has always excelled at being a solid and dependable mono and two-track recorder and editor. Version 9 of the software brought multichannel support which many people misinterpreted to mean multitrack functionality. Multichannel really means the program can handle files beyond stereo such as 5.1 surround sound files.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro By Jeffrey P. Fisher
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Keyboard shortcuts By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses Soundbooth's customizability, and specifically Soundbooth's keyboard shortcuts. He shows how to save your own personal keyboard shortcuts, enhancing your productivity.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Markers By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses markers, which enable you to demarcate trouble spots, and find specific areas more easily. They are also an essential element when integrating audio in your Flash projeccts.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part II (Playlist) By Jeffrey P. Fisher
In the previous article, we looked at using Sound Forge's project file format for non-destructive audio editing. Here we'll look at the Playlist feature which also lends itself to editing your work without affecting the file and therefore protecting your valuable original data.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: History Panel and Snapshots By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the history panel, which enables you to go to any point in time in your audio editing process and selectively undo any tweak that you've made to the project. He also covers the Snapshots tool as well.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part I (Project Files) By Jeffrey P. Fisher
When using Sound Forge for audio editing, clean-up, and mastering, you typically work directly on the original file. While you do have undo commands, once you save a file you make a permanent, destructive change to it. Most people get around this limitation (and potentially dangerous situation) by working on a copy of the original.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Task Panel and effects By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the task panel and the tools that enable you to change the pitch and timing, clean up audio, create loops, remove a sound, and volume correction. He also covers the effects rack and the various effects available in Soundbooth.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Soundbooth files and tools By Sven-Erik Seaholm
The first step in editing a file in Soundbooth is to open it in Soundbooth, and in this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses how to open a file in Soundbooth as well discussess the Files Panel, the Open file icon, and also shows how to work with multiple files that are open at one time.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Preferences By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm takes a look under the hood of SOundbooth's feature set to see what can be customized for advanced users. He covers the preferences field, and covers the custom time format, the display (hours mintues, seconds, frames), scores folder, the Preferences radio buttons, and more.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Panels Palette By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the panels and dockable palettes in Soundbooth CS4. He shows how they work, how to hide panels in the workspace, how to move the panels, how to arrange panels for easier access, and how to create a custom workspace with your panels and saving that workspace. He also shows how to go back to the default workspace.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Scoring video By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about Scores, which enable you to add music to projects that can be edited and customized for your job. he talks about the Video Panel and how add scores to your video. He also shows how to edit the scores to fit your video.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Resource Central By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the Resource Central panel, which provides registered users with a wealth of additional files for use in your Soundbooth projects as well as news and other resources related to Soundbooth. Sven gives a tour of Resource Central and how to search for such things as free sound effects and more.
...Read More »
Doing Professional Quality Voice Overs In The Comfort Of Your Own Home By Kevin McAuliffe
Being an editor who works out of a home office, I have a few major advantages over large and small post production facilities. First, I can beat the price (even a discounted price) that any post facility can offer. Second, my rates include both SD and HD editing, motion graphics, sound mixes and DVD creation, and finally, I am there for my clients not only during the day, but evenings and weekends as well.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4's Heal Tool By Kevin McAuliffe
As an editor, I run into many problems in my day to day work. One that always creeps up from time to time is when a DOP has gone out and shot a talent stand-up, and has come back, and the extro throw has a huge hit of distortion in it and, of course, they only did one take.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: What is Digital Audio By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about what digital audio is and how it looks and sounds in Adobe's Soundbooth CS4. He covers how various instruments such as drums and the electric guitar sound, and look via Soundbooth's spectral frequency display. He discusses what frequencies are and how they look, as well as how the spectral frequency display works as opposed to the waveform display. He also talks about bit depth and sample rates.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Track Automation By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland continues on with Track Automation in Logic Pro and covers more features, including Automation groups, Insert Bypassing, Output Automation, Convert MIDI to Automation, and Quick Access.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Grouping and Master Output By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses grouping and master output in Logic. He also covers Group Settings, Group Clutch, and Mastering Effects. He shows how to use groups in the mixer window in order to control multiple channels at once.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Bussing and Panning By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at Logic's Bussing and Panning tools, and covers such aspects as imaging your mix, bussing options, and auxiliary channels. Patrick creates a Logic project, with aq drum recording, a bass recording and an acoustic guitar recording, no effects, and center panned, to demonstrate how to use bussing and panning to create more depth and width in the actual recording.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Inserts and Effects By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at Logic's mixing capabilities, including Logic's Inserts and Effects, effects presets that come with Logic, copying plug-ins, and the pre-sets library.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Mixing Audio By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses mixing audio. He discusses the Audio Mixer, Environment Mixer, Creating Channels, and Managing Busses. He covers the two different types of mixers in Logic, that basically do the same thing but have slightly different interfaces.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: The Score Editor By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at the Score Editor, gives you an overview and shows where everything is to get started with Score Editing. He details how to get to the Score Editor via Preferences.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Editing MIDI Tracks By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland shows some of the basic editing functions and where everything is in Logic. There will be some level of your own ability to work through the editing functions in Logic because it is so vast.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training : Take Folders By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at how Logic creates Take Folders when you are cycle recording or loop recording. He also shows how to create locator sections and uses the compiler function to locate the best takes. And finally, he covers editing Take Folders and Comp Regions.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer: Using Plug-ins By Les Brockmann
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann discusses using plugins while mixing audio. He also covers plug-in effects that are best for individual channels, plug-ins that are best for many channels at once, and using Aux Tracks for Plug-in effects-busing and signal flow.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer: Setting up to Mix By Les Brockmann
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann goes over setting up to mix a dance tune. He covers using buses, signal routing for mixing with DP, monitoring through the mix destination stereo audio track, and using a master fader track.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic training: Create your own Apple Loops By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland digs a little deeper into what Apple Loops can do and how they function. He also creates a Loop using an audio file. He also covers Metadata, transient markers and the Save as command.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Audio Regions By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland covers how audio regions function in the arranged area, the different types of regions and file types and how they interact in the same area. He also takes a look at the graphic view as well as the color palette.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer: Mixing Audio By Les Brockmann
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann goes over the mixing board, covering the mixer features, the mini menu contents, and the V-Rack. He shows the mixing board window, MIDI tracks, instrument tracks, and a recorded audio track.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic: The Media Area By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses the Logic Pro Media Area and dragging and dropping audio into Logic Pro's Arrange Window. He also covers the Audio Bin as well as Sample Rate Conversion.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training : Recording Live Audio By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland looks at how to record live audio into Logic Pro. he shows how to create a new project folder and what Logic does, creating folders automatically. He also shows how to check settings to prepare for live audio.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer and File Management: Digital Performer's windows By Les Brockmann
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann takes a look at Digital Performer's windows, how the windows work, how to get around to them, and which window to select to perform an individual task. He covers the consolidated window, how windows can be divided into different sections or panes, separating the windows, and adding more information, such as the chunks window, event lists, and other choices of windows.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: The Apple Loops Explained By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses the Apple Loops that come with Logic Pro, how they function, the two different types of Loops, how the Loop browser works, and so on. He covers the Audio Loops, the MIDI Loops, Drag and Drop, and the Tempo Check Box.
...Read More »
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Multitrack Editing in Sony Sound Forge 10
Sound Forge has always excelled at being a solid and dependable mono and two-track recorder and editor. Version 9 of the software brought multichannel support which many people misinterpreted to mean multitrack functionality. Multichannel really means the program can handle files beyond stereo such as 5.1 surround sound files.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Keyboard shortcuts
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses Soundbooth's customizability, and specifically Soundbooth's keyboard shortcuts. He shows how to save your own personal keyboard shortcuts, enhancing your productivity.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Markers
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses markers, which enable you to demarcate trouble spots, and find specific areas more easily. They are also an essential element when integrating audio in your Flash projeccts.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Metadata and Properties panel
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers metadata and how it provides a customizable way of cataloging, sorting and searching your files, making metadata files an integral part of your project management.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part II (Playlist)
In the previous article, we looked at using Sound Forge's project file format for non-destructive audio editing. Here we'll look at the Playlist feature which also lends itself to editing your work without affecting the file and therefore protecting your valuable original data.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: History Panel and Snapshots
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the history panel, which enables you to go to any point in time in your audio editing process and selectively undo any tweak that you've made to the project. He also covers the Snapshots tool as well.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part I (Project Files)
When using Sound Forge for audio editing, clean-up, and mastering, you typically work directly on the original file. While you do have undo commands, once you save a file you make a permanent, destructive change to it. Most people get around this limitation (and potentially dangerous situation) by working on a copy of the original.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Task Panel and effects
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the task panel and the tools that enable you to change the pitch and timing, clean up audio, create loops, remove a sound, and volume correction. He also covers the effects rack and the various effects available in Soundbooth.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Soundbooth files and tools
The first step in editing a file in Soundbooth is to open it in Soundbooth, and in this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses how to open a file in Soundbooth as well discussess the Files Panel, the Open file icon, and also shows how to work with multiple files that are open at one time.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Preferences
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm takes a look under the hood of SOundbooth's feature set to see what can be customized for advanced users. He covers the preferences field, and covers the custom time format, the display (hours mintues, seconds, frames), scores folder, the Preferences radio buttons, and more.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Panels Palette
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the panels and dockable palettes in Soundbooth CS4. He shows how they work, how to hide panels in the workspace, how to move the panels, how to arrange panels for easier access, and how to create a custom workspace with your panels and saving that workspace. He also shows how to go back to the default workspace.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Scoring video
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about Scores, which enable you to add music to projects that can be edited and customized for your job. he talks about the Video Panel and how add scores to your video. He also shows how to edit the scores to fit your video.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Resource Central
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the Resource Central panel, which provides registered users with a wealth of additional files for use in your Soundbooth projects as well as news and other resources related to Soundbooth. Sven gives a tour of Resource Central and how to search for such things as free sound effects and more.
...Read More »
Doing Professional Quality Voice Overs In The Comfort Of Your Own Home
Being an editor who works out of a home office, I have a few major advantages over large and small post production facilities. First, I can beat the price (even a discounted price) that any post facility can offer. Second, my rates include both SD and HD editing, motion graphics, sound mixes and DVD creation, and finally, I am there for my clients not only during the day, but evenings and weekends as well.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4's Heal Tool
As an editor, I run into many problems in my day to day work. One that always creeps up from time to time is when a DOP has gone out and shot a talent stand-up, and has come back, and the extro throw has a huge hit of distortion in it and, of course, they only did one take.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: What is Digital Audio
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about what digital audio is and how it looks and sounds in Adobe's Soundbooth CS4. He covers how various instruments such as drums and the electric guitar sound, and look via Soundbooth's spectral frequency display. He discusses what frequencies are and how they look, as well as how the spectral frequency display works as opposed to the waveform display. He also talks about bit depth and sample rates.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Track Automation
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland continues on with Track Automation in Logic Pro and covers more features, including Automation groups, Insert Bypassing, Output Automation, Convert MIDI to Automation, and Quick Access.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Grouping and Master Output
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses grouping and master output in Logic. He also covers Group Settings, Group Clutch, and Mastering Effects. He shows how to use groups in the mixer window in order to control multiple channels at once.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Bussing and Panning
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at Logic's Bussing and Panning tools, and covers such aspects as imaging your mix, bussing options, and auxiliary channels. Patrick creates a Logic project, with aq drum recording, a bass recording and an acoustic guitar recording, no effects, and center panned, to demonstrate how to use bussing and panning to create more depth and width in the actual recording.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Inserts and Effects
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at Logic's mixing capabilities, including Logic's Inserts and Effects, effects presets that come with Logic, copying plug-ins, and the pre-sets library.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Mixing Audio
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses mixing audio. He discusses the Audio Mixer, Environment Mixer, Creating Channels, and Managing Busses. He covers the two different types of mixers in Logic, that basically do the same thing but have slightly different interfaces.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: The Score Editor
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at the Score Editor, gives you an overview and shows where everything is to get started with Score Editing. He details how to get to the Score Editor via Preferences.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Editing MIDI Tracks
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland shows some of the basic editing functions and where everything is in Logic. There will be some level of your own ability to work through the editing functions in Logic because it is so vast.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training : Take Folders
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland takes a look at how Logic creates Take Folders when you are cycle recording or loop recording. He also shows how to create locator sections and uses the compiler function to locate the best takes. And finally, he covers editing Take Folders and Comp Regions.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer: Using Plug-ins
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann discusses using plugins while mixing audio. He also covers plug-in effects that are best for individual channels, plug-ins that are best for many channels at once, and using Aux Tracks for Plug-in effects-busing and signal flow.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer: Setting up to Mix
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann goes over setting up to mix a dance tune. He covers using buses, signal routing for mixing with DP, monitoring through the mix destination stereo audio track, and using a master fader track.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic training: Create your own Apple Loops
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland digs a little deeper into what Apple Loops can do and how they function. He also creates a Loop using an audio file. He also covers Metadata, transient markers and the Save as command.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Audio Regions
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland covers how audio regions function in the arranged area, the different types of regions and file types and how they interact in the same area. He also takes a look at the graphic view as well as the color palette.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer: Mixing Audio
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann goes over the mixing board, covering the mixer features, the mini menu contents, and the V-Rack. He shows the mixing board window, MIDI tracks, instrument tracks, and a recorded audio track.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer and File Management: The six time registers
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann goes over several new features that will help you get around in Digital Performer, including the six time registers, naming and labeling in Digital Performer, and the multiple levels of undo.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic: The Media Area
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses the Logic Pro Media Area and dragging and dropping audio into Logic Pro's Arrange Window. He also covers the Audio Bin as well as Sample Rate Conversion.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer and File Management: Keyboard and shortcut commands
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann says that the quickest way to becoming a DP power user is to learn the keyboard shortcuts versus pulling the menus to access various commands. Les shows some keyboard and mouse shortcuts that are helpful.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training : Recording Live Audio
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland looks at how to record live audio into Logic Pro. he shows how to create a new project folder and what Logic does, creating folders automatically. He also shows how to check settings to prepare for live audio.
...Read More »
HowAudio Motu Digital Performer and File Management: Digital Performer's windows
In this clip, HowAudio host Les Brockmann takes a look at Digital Performer's windows, how the windows work, how to get around to them, and which window to select to perform an individual task. He covers the consolidated window, how windows can be divided into different sections or panes, separating the windows, and adding more information, such as the chunks window, event lists, and other choices of windows.
...Read More »
HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: The Apple Loops Explained
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland discusses the Apple Loops that come with Logic Pro, how they function, the two different types of Loops, how the Loop browser works, and so on. He covers the Audio Loops, the MIDI Loops, Drag and Drop, and the Tempo Check Box.
...Read More »
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