HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Audio File Processing By Patrick Copeland
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland continues looking at editing audio in Logic Pro and audio file editing in the Sample Editor. He shows how to get to the sample editor by double clicking on a region and using the W key on the keyboard to get to the Sample Editor.
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Logic Pro 9 New Features: Flex Tips By Damian Allen
In this clip, host Damian Allen details some quick tips using the Flex feature, including time stretching an entire audio region, aligning a flex marker in your current track using transient markers from another track, and more.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: Quantize Audio By Damian Allen
In this clip, host Damian Allen details how to Quantize audio with the Flex technology in Logic Pro 9, which enables you to perform the same process with digital audio. He shows how to enable the flex mode to use the Quantize feature in Logic Pro 9.
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Logic Pro 9 New Features: Creating a Flex Marker By Damian Allen
In this clip, host Damian Allen details how to create a custom Flex Marker. He discusses how a clip has a second vocal trill after a first trill but Logic detected no transients in that area on the timeline. He then moves the playhead to the half beat to act as a guide for the alignment.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: Flex View By Damian Allen
The Flex View is where you will do most of your audio tweaks. In this clip, host Damian Allen details the features of the Flex view, how to activate it, how to activate and deactivate tracks, how to access the Flex menu. He also covers the tempophone and Speed modes.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: The Flex Tool By Damian Allen
In this clip, host Damian Allen takes a look at Flex Editing in Logic Pro 9, a featur similar in functionality to elastic audio in other applications. He details two ways of working the Flex System, using the Flex tool, or the Flex View. He starts this lesson by looking at the Flex Tool.
...Read More »
Editing Music with Sound Forge By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Rare is the project that doesn't require conforming music in some way to match the visuals, enhance the drama, or support the message. Library production music often comes with alternate timings, but these tend to be of the :29 and :59 variety. That's great for some spot work, but not useful all the time. Instead of selecting a music track that almost works, make any music track do what you want by editing it to fit your precise needs.
...Read More »
Multitrack Editing in Sony Sound Forge 10 By Jeffrey P. Fisher
Sound Forge has always excelled at being a solid and dependable mono and two-track recorder and editor. Version 9 of the software brought multichannel support which many people misinterpreted to mean multitrack functionality. Multichannel really means the program can handle files beyond stereo such as 5.1 surround sound files.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro By Jeffrey P. Fisher
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Keyboard shortcuts By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses Soundbooth's customizability, and specifically Soundbooth's keyboard shortcuts. He shows how to save your own personal keyboard shortcuts, enhancing your productivity.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Markers By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses markers, which enable you to demarcate trouble spots, and find specific areas more easily. They are also an essential element when integrating audio in your Flash projeccts.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part II (Playlist) By Jeffrey P. Fisher
In the previous article, we looked at using Sound Forge's project file format for non-destructive audio editing. Here we'll look at the Playlist feature which also lends itself to editing your work without affecting the file and therefore protecting your valuable original data.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: History Panel and Snapshots By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the history panel, which enables you to go to any point in time in your audio editing process and selectively undo any tweak that you've made to the project. He also covers the Snapshots tool as well.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part I (Project Files) By Jeffrey P. Fisher
When using Sound Forge for audio editing, clean-up, and mastering, you typically work directly on the original file. While you do have undo commands, once you save a file you make a permanent, destructive change to it. Most people get around this limitation (and potentially dangerous situation) by working on a copy of the original.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Task Panel and effects By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the task panel and the tools that enable you to change the pitch and timing, clean up audio, create loops, remove a sound, and volume correction. He also covers the effects rack and the various effects available in Soundbooth.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Soundbooth files and tools By Sven-Erik Seaholm
The first step in editing a file in Soundbooth is to open it in Soundbooth, and in this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses how to open a file in Soundbooth as well discussess the Files Panel, the Open file icon, and also shows how to work with multiple files that are open at one time.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Preferences By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm takes a look under the hood of SOundbooth's feature set to see what can be customized for advanced users. He covers the preferences field, and covers the custom time format, the display (hours mintues, seconds, frames), scores folder, the Preferences radio buttons, and more.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Panels Palette By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the panels and dockable palettes in Soundbooth CS4. He shows how they work, how to hide panels in the workspace, how to move the panels, how to arrange panels for easier access, and how to create a custom workspace with your panels and saving that workspace. He also shows how to go back to the default workspace.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Scoring video By Sven-Erik Seaholm
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about Scores, which enable you to add music to projects that can be edited and customized for your job. he talks about the Video Panel and how add scores to your video. He also shows how to edit the scores to fit your video.
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NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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HowAudio's Apple Logic Training: Audio File Processing
In this clip, host Patrick Copeland continues looking at editing audio in Logic Pro and audio file editing in the Sample Editor. He shows how to get to the sample editor by double clicking on a region and using the W key on the keyboard to get to the Sample Editor.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: Flex Tips
In this clip, host Damian Allen details some quick tips using the Flex feature, including time stretching an entire audio region, aligning a flex marker in your current track using transient markers from another track, and more.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: Quantize Audio
In this clip, host Damian Allen details how to Quantize audio with the Flex technology in Logic Pro 9, which enables you to perform the same process with digital audio. He shows how to enable the flex mode to use the Quantize feature in Logic Pro 9.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: Creating a Flex Marker
In this clip, host Damian Allen details how to create a custom Flex Marker. He discusses how a clip has a second vocal trill after a first trill but Logic detected no transients in that area on the timeline. He then moves the playhead to the half beat to act as a guide for the alignment.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: Flex View
The Flex View is where you will do most of your audio tweaks. In this clip, host Damian Allen details the features of the Flex view, how to activate it, how to activate and deactivate tracks, how to access the Flex menu. He also covers the tempophone and Speed modes.
...Read More »
Logic Pro 9 New Features: The Flex Tool
In this clip, host Damian Allen takes a look at Flex Editing in Logic Pro 9, a featur similar in functionality to elastic audio in other applications. He details two ways of working the Flex System, using the Flex tool, or the Flex View. He starts this lesson by looking at the Flex Tool.
...Read More »
Editing Music with Sound Forge
Rare is the project that doesn't require conforming music in some way to match the visuals, enhance the drama, or support the message. Library production music often comes with alternate timings, but these tend to be of the :29 and :59 variety. That's great for some spot work, but not useful all the time. Instead of selecting a music track that almost works, make any music track do what you want by editing it to fit your precise needs.
...Read More »
Multitrack Editing in Sony Sound Forge 10
Sound Forge has always excelled at being a solid and dependable mono and two-track recorder and editor. Version 9 of the software brought multichannel support which many people misinterpreted to mean multitrack functionality. Multichannel really means the program can handle files beyond stereo such as 5.1 surround sound files.
...Read More »
Adding Audio Hardware Meters to Sony Vegas Pro
There's no doubt that watching volume levels with your audio- and video-centric projects is important. The digital audio world has a top limit --- 0 dBFS --- that you can't exceed. But screen real estate is often at a premium when working in the Vegas NLE. Sure you can pop the Audio Mixer and/or Mixing Console over to a secondary monitor, but that's often filled up with audio/video effects, waveform/vectorscope monitor, and even full-screen previews.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Keyboard shortcuts
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses Soundbooth's customizability, and specifically Soundbooth's keyboard shortcuts. He shows how to save your own personal keyboard shortcuts, enhancing your productivity.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Markers
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses markers, which enable you to demarcate trouble spots, and find specific areas more easily. They are also an essential element when integrating audio in your Flash projeccts.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Metadata and Properties panel
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers metadata and how it provides a customizable way of cataloging, sorting and searching your files, making metadata files an integral part of your project management.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part II (Playlist)
In the previous article, we looked at using Sound Forge's project file format for non-destructive audio editing. Here we'll look at the Playlist feature which also lends itself to editing your work without affecting the file and therefore protecting your valuable original data.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: History Panel and Snapshots
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the history panel, which enables you to go to any point in time in your audio editing process and selectively undo any tweak that you've made to the project. He also covers the Snapshots tool as well.
...Read More »
Sony Sound Forge Non-destructive Editing Techniques, Part I (Project Files)
When using Sound Forge for audio editing, clean-up, and mastering, you typically work directly on the original file. While you do have undo commands, once you save a file you make a permanent, destructive change to it. Most people get around this limitation (and potentially dangerous situation) by working on a copy of the original.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Task Panel and effects
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the task panel and the tools that enable you to change the pitch and timing, clean up audio, create loops, remove a sound, and volume correction. He also covers the effects rack and the various effects available in Soundbooth.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Soundbooth files and tools
The first step in editing a file in Soundbooth is to open it in Soundbooth, and in this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm discusses how to open a file in Soundbooth as well discussess the Files Panel, the Open file icon, and also shows how to work with multiple files that are open at one time.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Preferences
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm takes a look under the hood of SOundbooth's feature set to see what can be customized for advanced users. He covers the preferences field, and covers the custom time format, the display (hours mintues, seconds, frames), scores folder, the Preferences radio buttons, and more.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Panels Palette
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm covers the panels and dockable palettes in Soundbooth CS4. He shows how they work, how to hide panels in the workspace, how to move the panels, how to arrange panels for easier access, and how to create a custom workspace with your panels and saving that workspace. He also shows how to go back to the default workspace.
...Read More »
Adobe Soundbooth CS4 Essential Training: Scoring video
In this video, Lynda.com host Sven-Erik Seaholm talks about Scores, which enable you to add music to projects that can be edited and customized for your job. he talks about the Video Panel and how add scores to your video. He also shows how to edit the scores to fit your video.
...Read More »
