Picture and sound. Writes about editing, color, loudness and delivery specifications, including the ones that get deliveries rejected.
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Recording contributors in different locations, with each side recorded locally at full quality and combined afterward. Key takeaways Double-ender: each particip...
Providing a text version of spoken audio so it can be read, searched and used by people who cannot or do not want to listen. Key takeaways WCAG requirement: a t...
Mixing for more than two channels — from 5.1 through to object-based formats that place sound in three dimensions. Key takeaways Channel-based formats: 5.1 and...
Choosing the container and codec for a deliverable, and knowing which are appropriate for archiving, editing and distribution. Key takeaways Lossless formats: W...
Creating or sourcing the individual sounds a scene needs — footsteps, handling, impacts, movement — and placing them convincingly. Key takeaways Foley: performe...
Finishing sound for commercials, where the duration is fixed, the loudness is regulated and the approval chain is long. Key takeaways Duration: exact, to the fr...
Delivering separated audio layers and an organized session so that someone else can revise the work without starting again. Key takeaways Stems: grouped submixe...
Using meters that measure what matters — loudness, true peak, phase and spectrum — rather than judging a mix by the numbers a DAW shows by default. Key takeaway...
Recording and finishing spoken word at length, to the technical and consistency standards distributors require. Key takeaways Typical distributor requirements:...
How a project is structured inside the software: track naming, grouping, color, routing and version control. Key takeaways Naming: descriptive track names rathe...
The loudness rules for American television: the CALM Act, which the FCC enforces, and the ATSC A/85 recommended practice it relies on for measuring and controll...
Choosing the type of microphone and where to put it relative to the speaker and the room, the two decisions that shape a recording more than any processing afte...
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