Joseph W. bourke
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If there’s a place in your audio where there is just the sound of the car driving past without the voices, you can sample this section as the “noise floor”. You can then remove just that noise from the overall sound track.
Here’s Adobe’s take on it:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/Soundbooth/2.0/WSD3E32451-683E-4bc4-B2B3-04A0D19DD7B4a.html
Joe Bourke
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Hi Ken –
I haven’t made the jump to CS5.5 yet, so I don’t have Audition, but maybe this will help – straight from Adobe:
https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/aud2it_cibexcerpts/downloads/Lesson13.pdf
It’s on integrating Audition and PPro.
Joe Bourke
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Since the graphic design standards all revolve around the Adobe Creative Suite, it would seem to be a logical choice to teach Premiere Pro, because of the interactive capabilites of the various software packages. It’s reaching the point now where you can do a design in Photoshop which is targeted for an interactive DVD, website, web video, and Flash presentation, and use the single resource to cover all the bases.
There are things brewing at Adobe (see labs.adobe.com)that would make your head swim. Flash Catalyst, which shipped with CS5, gives the non-technical user (read “designer”) the ability to create interactive Flash animation without going under the hood. Things are really moving in the right direction at Adobe.
That said, in the fourteen years I was at a broadcast station, we always looked favorably at resumes which had AVID experience, and AVID plays fairly well with the Adobe products, although there’s no where near the integration which the Creative Suite has (needless to say). With the addition of Audition, replacing Soundbooth, a simple, but powerful enough DAW, the student can get his/her feet wet in every single facet of the production spectrum.
Joe Bourke
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You beat me to it Robert! I use Dropbox. A 50GB account costs 100 bucks a year, and I use it not only to send approval files and final delivery to clients, but also as backup and transfer between my laptop, Blackberry, and whatever else I happen to be carrying in my pocket or briefcase.
Joe Bourke
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It’s not quite as simple as it sounds – depending on the lighting you’re using, street makeup can be very clownish looking on camera. You need to know the color temperature of the lighting you’re working with, then purchase the makeup based on whether it’s tungsten, daylight (in which case off the shelf street makeup could work), LED, or otherwise.
Here’s a sampling of what you can get into:
https://www.spotlightcostumes.com/BenNyeStore/html/MakeupKitsTheaterFilm.htmWhen I was producing a half hour show on computers and software several years ago, we brought in a trainer to teach us how to do tv makeup. It was amazing the counter-intuitive things we were taught. To get rid of a zit (and this was tungsten lighting in a studio, by the way), there was a yellow stick we used. A tiny dab, which looked very weird in person, disappeared when on camera under the lights.
There’s a whole art to it, and the best way to be sure you won’t end up with a clown or a Kabuki look, is to test it with the camera and lights you intend to use, on the person you intend to use it on. That’s why pro’s get hired to do this.
Joe Bourke
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Hi Alex –
I often find myself in the same boat as you – quality vs space. What I’ve been doing is creating a master file of my edited production in lossless Quicktime (1920 x 1080 – Animation – millions of colors). It’s a huge file, but it’s my master file.
That said, for elements of the production which I may need (no…will need) to use again, I render them off as Quicktime M-JPEG-A files at 90 percent quality. This format has been used by Artbeats as well as several other high quality footage providers, and there is a balance between file size and high quality.
If it comes to a final choice, I’d always opt for quality over space, and I ended up purchasing an 8TB Drobo for just that purchase. I can put all of my footage and elements at full uncompressed quality for archival purposes, and it didn’t quite cost me an arm and a leg.
Joe Bourke
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Hi James –
This topic has been discussed at length on the After Effects Forum, and it appears to be more tied to the projection device you plan on using, rather than the software – things to consider – is the projector taking your animation from a laptop or a DVD player? Here’s a link to the discussion:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/996847
Joe Bourke
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This is called Sibilance, and I believe there is a built in filter to reduce it in Soundbooth. Yes – it is part of the Vocal Enhancer effect, and automatically (so they say) does this.
I sure that in Audition there’s a module for Sibilance suppression that you can actually control, since Audition is more of a “pro” product.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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That’s great to hear! I know the RAM on my desktop box is really on the low end for CS5, but I’m not going to be throwing too much at it right away – mostly going to be getting a handle on some of the new CS5 features in AE and PPro.
And it will give me time to get used to using the laptop, which I now have hooked up via DisplayPort to a monitor, and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, in addition to my Wacom tablet. It just takes a while to get used to a laptop when working with the Adobe Suites, but I’ll manage it. Not as tough as getting one’s head around FCPX, I gather.
For Dave, who tells me to eat my peas:
I eat my peas with honey,
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife.Thanks to all!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Try looking at it from the musician’s perspective. So it’s ok to take away the musician’s livelyhood by pirating his music to make you look good. I’ll bet if some of your footage showed up on someone else’s demo reel you’d scream bloody murder. Just another view from someone who’s both an animator/designer and a musician.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com