Audio Postproduction for Digital Video

July 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized

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Written in the author’s clear conversational style, with ample illustrations and visual analogies, this book features software agnostic tutorials and “cookbook recipes” for each phase of postaudio processing. The author begins with a section of FAQs from readers of the author’s magazine column. After summarizing the significant points of audio theory, the author describes the preliminaries of setting up a post studio. From there he details every aspect of postproduc… More >>

Audio Postproduction for Digital Video

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5 Responses to “Audio Postproduction for Digital Video”

  1. James Hebert Says:

    July 25th, 2010 at 9:15 pm

    Jay Rose is no stranger to recording sound, and no one is better at passing along clear information about the craft and art of doing so than he.

    Examples, stories, tips, and screen shots interspersed through the book all serve to demonstrate that Jay knows his stuff. His experience is that of someone who “lived through it” when it comes to analog sound, the conversion to digital sound, fully digital sound, and that no man’s land of having to manage in-between analog and digital.

    I am fortunate that I learned much of this myself through trial and error, yet the book still taught me much more.

    Wish this had been written about 30 years ago. I’d have learned all that so much more easily.

    Rating: 5 / 5



  2. T. Brehm Says:

    July 25th, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    I was impressed from the beginning with the content of this book. It has been a great help in my recent graduate projects. This is one I will keep on the shelf for reference.
    Rating: 5 / 5



  3. Justin Stuempfle Says:

    July 25th, 2010 at 11:23 pm

    This book in fantastic. The author’s voice and style make this not only easy to read but a joy to read as well. There are little tips and tidbits in each chapter that will make a good audio guy great and a great audio guy better. I recommend this book to anyone in the audio post world.
    Rating: 5 / 5



  4. G. L. Stone Says:

    July 25th, 2010 at 11:27 pm

    This book is simply the best book on post-production audio out there. I have over a decade of experience mixing live sound and some formal training in post production, but Rose gets to the real nuts and bolts of the day-to-day sweetening of sound that I was able to apply his ideas the same day I read a chapter on EQ. I have read so many books on sound where authors get into all the details, but fail to give hands on practical advice. Rose has two unique things going for him in this book: the included CD that gives A/B comparisons of various audio sweetening and processing techniques and the cookbook format at the end of each chapter. Try any one of these “recipes” and you will instantly get results and be able to solve various problems and massively improve your soundtrack.

    He gets technical in spots going into the physics of sound, studio design, and other minutia but the non-geeks you can usually skip these sections and side-bars. For those who just want to fix things they can jump to the end of each chapter and use the cookbook/troubleshooting sections. I can’t recommend this book enough. If you are serious about filmmaking, you can’t be without this book.
    Rating: 5 / 5



  5. G. Robinson Says:

    July 26th, 2010 at 12:25 am

    This book has lots of good information for both the new editor and the experienced. Jays techniques for dialogue editing are through and every time I read this section something new shows up.

    His method for audio centric ADR makes it available to more folks (many people can’t do traditional ADR). It is quick and as easy as ADR gets.

    He has a very good section for cutting music to video and over all does an outstanding job of explaining the audio post process.

    If every one would read this book and follow the advice there would not be so many videos with poorly edited audio out there.
    Rating: 5 / 5