How to get good production dialogue

Here’s a short and sweet video with a tip on the best way to get good production dialogue audio from your talent. Watch below.

Full Compass Hosts “Music Biz” Workshop For Young Musicians

Full Compass Systems, one of the nation’s leading retailers of pro audio, pro video, AV, lighting and musical instruments, will host a day-long workshop for aspiring musicians on Saturday, June 23rd 2012.  “Making It in the Music Biz” is a special gathering of music professionals who will share insights and advice on the practical and business aspects of performing music.  The event, based on the popular Launchpad music program, is free to all participants.

Diversity and Reliability: The Sennheiser 8000 Microphone Series in Action

Rabbit Ears Audio is a boutique sound effects library founded by broadcast engineer Michael Raphael about four years ago. Raphael’s vision for Rabbit Ears has always been to build comprehensive collections of SFX that will fit sound designers’ very specific needs: for example, he has a meticulously thorough collection of rocket sounds, antique engines, hydrophonic sounds, and many others. Recently, Raphael and his team of field recordists took several Sennheiser microphones out to record a Mi-24 Hind — a rare Cold War-era Russian combat helicopter that requires over 26,000 pounds of air pressure to lift off.

NAB 2012 applause! Blackmagic’s cinema camera uses HFS+ formatting rather than weak FAT32

As some of my colleagues at ProVideo Coalition magazine have already reported, at NAB 2012, Blackmagic announced its first digital motion picture camera, officially known as the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. For US$2999, Blackmagic gives you the camera, a license of DaVinci Resolve (US$995 value) and a license of UltraScope (US$695 value). Supply your own Canon EF or Zeiss ZE lens and recording media. I applaud Blackmagic for making one of the two best possible decisions regarding the formatting used on the removable SSDs (solid state drives), and for using standard códecs/file formats. Unlike what many traditional photo and video camera manufacturers have chosen to implement (the weak FAT32), Blackmagic chose to use HFS+ (aka HFS Plus or Mac OS Extended). In this first look, I’ll review the differences and advantages of either HFS+ or UDF over FAT32, and point out some other details, i.e. the audio connections and file formats.

NAB 2012: Epic HD1080 Danger Cam

Another new-kid-on-the-block aims at the entrenched leader, this time in dangercams.

1st handheld dynamic microphones with hybrid XLR/USB/iPad connectivity from Audio Technica

Over the past few years, the market has become flooded with USB microphones, but most have been condenser models, and only a couple have been dynamic. Those dynamic models have been USB-only. There has been a need for dynamic USB microphones that were also hybrid (XLR balanced analog + USB digital, together with onboard zero-latency monitoring), especially since the external converters are both costly and bulky, and USB-only microphones are —by nature— more limited in terms of applications. In this part 1, I’ll clarify when dynamic microphones are preferred over condenser models, where USB-connected microphones “fit”, cover Audio Technica’s first hybrid dynamic models, and offer three comparative recordings between our reference Heil PR–40, the legendary Shure SM58, and the new ATR2100-USB, which is one of two handheld hybrid dynamic models from Audio Technica.

Red Giant Releases Magic Bullet Denoiser II

Red Giant today released Magic Bullet Denoiser II, a completely re-built version of its popular Denoiser 1.0 tool for removing unwanted noise and artifacts from video footage. Available as a free update for Denoiser 1.0 and Magic Bullet Suite customers, Denoiser II features intelligent default settings that provide immediate clean-up results when first applied to footage. Unlike other denoising tools and methods that can blur fine detail, Denoiser II’s smart default settings, along with advanced noise reducing tools, deliver sharp, clean and professional video results out of the gate.

Audio-Technica Kicks Off “50 Years of Passionate Listening” Anniversary Celebration with Gala

Audio-Technica, a leading innovator in transducer technology, is this year marking “50 Years of Passionate Listening” with its yearlong 50th Anniversary Celebration. The anniversary year officially kicked off in the U.S. with a special gala event during the 2012 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. The party took place at Disney California Adventure Park on the evening of Thursday, January 19, 2012. A-T’s 700-plus special guests included musicians (including several Audio-Technica endorsers), recording arts professionals, dealers, distributors, customers and members of the press. Key personnel from Audio-Technica Japan (the parent company of A-T U.S. and the other A-T companies worldwide) were also in attendance, including Audio-Technica Corporation President Kazuo Matsushita.

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