Audio Postproduction for Digital Video

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 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 (totally different techniques)
• record Foley and ADR
• find music and use it effectively
• find or create you own sound effects
• shape sounds with equalization, reverb, noise reduction, and more
• produce the final mix
• test the final product for various media

Table of Contents

Introduction: Fast Problem-Solving

Section I The Basics - Why You Should Care

  Chapter 1 How It All Works

Section 2 Your Facility, Your Project

  Chapter 2 The Post Studio

  Chapter 3 Planning the Track

Section 3 Recording & Editing

  Chapter 4 Getting It into the Computer

  Chapter 5 Voice Over and ADR Recording

  Chapter 6 Editing Dialog

  Chapter 7 Working with Music

  Chapter 8 Working with SFX

Section 4 Fixing and Mixing

  Chapter 9 Planning the Mix

  Chapter 10 Equalization and Filtering

  Chapter 11 Dynamics Control

  Chapter 13 Time and Pitch Effects

  Chapter 14 Noise Reduction

  Chapter 15 Other Effects

  Chapter 16 Mixing

  Chapter 17 Post-mixing

Index