Welcome
Published on January 27th, 2010 @ 07:54:46 am , using 47 words, 3711 views
Welcome to the out post sound blog. A place for all of us here to put out into the world anything audio related that might, or might not be of interest to the audio community.
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Enjoy.
PermalinkDisk Space, File Sizes and Backup
Published on December 13th, 2011 @ 02:20:00 pm , using 266 words, 104 views
I was inspired to write this post after reading a news story on the BBC website about a trillion frames per second camera that has recently been unveiled at MIT.
After sitting in on an video edit today with some clients and an great editor and grader Darren Mostin at Online Creative, with whom we do a lot of work, we had the usual audio/video discussion of whose file sizes were bigger. It all gets a bit tedious to be honest because as an audio chap it is pretty hard to win that argument - but you have to give it a go. Don't let the video boys win, ever! That's my motto...
Anyway, petty squabbles aside I was intrigued to read the afforementioned article. What a totally awesome concept. The frame rate is so fast it can capture light moving! That is something very hard to comprehend.
However, if the camera works faster than light, does that mean it is possible to travel in time with it in some weird visual way?
Suffice to say, this has nothing to do with audio, but the disk space required to store that many frames must be truely mind boggling.
Check this footage out of a pulse of laser light that lasts one nanosecond (less than a billionth of a second) and yet the camera captures it in amazing detail!
How they back all those frames up I have no idea. We however recently started using Gobbler as an off site backup solution and, even though it is still in beta, it is a revolution. Check it out.
A new organisation, The Sound Editors Guild, is to have it's inaugural meeting on the 14th December in London.
The SEG....stands for Sound Editors Guild. A UK based Guild for all Sound/Music/Dialogue/FX/Foley Editors. If you are interested join the Facebook page here
More on bad sound in cinemas
Published on November 25th, 2011 @ 11:44:00 am , using 42 words, 136 views
Following my recent post on the terrible sound in some multiplex cinemas you might be interested to read this article by my good friend Tim Goodyer and his discussion with Nigel Heath from Hackenbacker Audio Post.
It's all a bit depressing really!
Sound Design for Animation
Published on September 28th, 2011 @ 06:17:00 am , using 52 words, 226 views
We have had fun over the last few days completing a sound design for a new App for the Mac called Analog.
The software has a whole backstory for which we cast, recorded the dialogue, edited, designed and mix the sound.
It's pretty gooooood. (That's an in joke... not us bragging!)
