Gardner’s Guide to Audio Post-production
$24

 

A comprehensive, user-friendly guide to post- production sound, this book leads the reader through a program of techniques used by professional audio engineers to create high quality soundtracks for film and video projects on any budget.

The secrets of dialogue restoration & replacement (ADR), music acquisition and licensing, effective uses of sound effects and Foley, and narration/voiceover recording are revealed in language the filmmaker and editor can understand. The book also demystifies technical challenges such as transferring sessions between video and audio platforms, keeping sound and picture in sync, studio setup, and more.

A complete course in digital post-production sound, the approach uses detailed, hands-on procedures applicable to any software platform. Revealing professional techniques for establishing dialogue levels, editing music to picture, using equalizers and compressors, creating special effects, and mixing (in both stereo and surround formats) for cinema, TV, and the web, this title is a must have for anyone wanting to take their project beyond the location sound recordings and create an emotionally moving, broadcast quality mix.

Please have a look at the Table of Contents.

If you have any specific questions about the book please feel free to contact Mark at the email address at the bottom right of this page.







 

 

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