In a recent press release Avid announced the termination of Louis Hernandez effective immediately due to violation of Company policies related to workplace conduct. Jeff Rosica was appointed new CEO, who prior to his role as President served as Senior Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for the Company. [perfectpullquote align="full" bordertop="false" … [Read more...]
ProSoundEffects: “Upgrade Your Sound Design Rig” Giveaway
ProSoundEffects is currently running the "Upgrade Your Sound Design Rig" Giveaway with four prize bundles totaling $15,000+ in audio tools. Avid Pro Tools HD, iZotope RX Post Production Suite, Nugen Audio Halo Upmix, and BaseHead Ultra are among the prize offering of popular audio software tools used to boost the quality of work for sound professionals in film, television, … [Read more...]
The Hybrid Animal Sound Design Competition
No matter how deep your interest in animal husbandry may be, you're probably never going to figure out what the spawn of a camel and a mollusk might sound like. Or will you? Interested sound designers still have a little more than a week left to enter the Hybrid Animal Sound Design Competition, where the creation from scratch of a brand new animal call could net a share of … [Read more...]
Spanner
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yEDKE6hV7E[/youtube] We don't use to talk so much about plugin news, but this fantastic. spanner is a powerful surround channel manager, panner, remapper and folddown plugin for AVID Pro Tools. it is the result of years of personal frustration with the Pro Tools panner and bussing setup and solves many of the common complaints about … [Read more...]
Using Dropbox for Sharing Pro Tools Sessions Between a Group
Charles Deenen has published a useful guide on his site explaining how to setup Dropbox for sharing Pro Tools sessions quickly between a group of people, in the cloud. Dropbox allows you to work “virtually” in a group with Protools, sharing sessions almost instantly. However there are a few rules to follow during the workflow, to make this process smooth. The following is … [Read more...]
Avid Presents the New Generation of Pro Tools
Avid has just released Pro Tools 9, the new version of the industry standard DAW, now packed with more features (including very cool news for post-sound guys, both LE and HD users) and also a new philosophy (yes, finally... they're "changing"). So.. What's new? Pro Tools now works with Core Audio and ASIO drivers (no more interface limitations) Supports OMF/AAF/XMF Adds … [Read more...]
The Workflow of Soundelux's Supervising Sound Editors
The September/October issue of the Editors Guild Magazine is now online and includes a very interesting article about the workflow and tools of three supervising sound editors of Soundelux: Scott Martin Gershin, Mark Stoeckinger and Mark Mangini. Also there are several comments from Bill Johnston, senior vice president of Engineering and Technical Services for CSS Studios. “My … [Read more...]