New to the forum. Looking to gear up.

[Shorty McSushi]

Hey all. My name's Shorty, and I'm a noob. Here's my story.

A friend of mine got me into post production. Haven't really tried it yet, but I watched her work with it and it looks like a blast. I have a bit of a background in sound, but it seems like audio post is a whole different story, and I have no idea where to begin. So I ask all you kind folk.... Where do I begin?

I'd like to teach myself as much as I can. I want to start recording foley and such. Sound design. You know... all the good, fun stuff that comes with post.

What should I get to get me started? Programs and gear and whatnot... I want to get a kit set up that's somewhat portable so I can easily take it into the field. Please keep in mind, I'm a broke college kid and I cant afford to be doing top of the line productions. But I want enough to be effective and not have my work sound like a 5 year old did it.

FYI.... current "gear" list. (it's pathetic, i know....)

Macbook Pro with Pro Tools M-Powered 8 Essentials, Logic Studio, Final Cut Studio, and Adobe Master Collection

Zoom H4N (portable phantom power ftw)

ATH-2020 USB microphone

So... Anyone with the patience have any ideas for me?

[philper]

Originally Posted by Shorty McSushi

Hey all. My name's Shorty, and I'm a noob. Here's my story.

A friend of mine got me into post production. Haven't really tried it yet, but I watched her work with it and it looks like a blast. I have a bit of a background in sound, but it seems like audio post is a whole different story, and I have no idea where to begin. So I ask all you kind folk.... Where do I begin?

I'd like to teach myself as much as I can. I want to start recording foley and such. Sound design. You know... all the good, fun stuff that comes with post.

What should I get to get me started? Programs and gear and whatnot... I want to get a kit set up that's somewhat portable so I can easily take it into the field. Please keep in mind, I'm a broke college kid and I cant afford to be doing top of the line productions. But I want enough to be effective and not have my work sound like a 5 year old did it.

FYI.... current "gear" list. (it's pathetic, i know....)

Macbook Pro with Pro Tools M-Powered 8 Essentials, Logic Studio, Final Cut Studio, and Adobe Master Collection

Zoom H4N (portable phantom power ftw)

ATH-2020 USB microphone

So... Anyone with the patience have any ideas for me?

How about some topic searches through past threads and especially the stickies, here and on the ProTools Post and Surround forums, so you can learn enough to ask specific questions? Just a thought--it's worked for a lot of other beginners....

Philip Perkins

[ggegan]

Originally Posted by Shorty McSushi

Hey all. My name's Shorty, and I'm a noob. Here's my story.

A friend of mine got me into post production. Haven't really tried it yet, but I watched her work with it and it looks like a blast. I have a bit of a background in sound, but it seems like audio post is a whole different story, and I have no idea where to begin. So I ask all you kind folk.... Where do I begin?

I'd like to teach myself as much as I can. I want to start recording foley and such. Sound design. You know... all the good, fun stuff that comes with post.

What should I get to get me started? Programs and gear and whatnot... I want to get a kit set up that's somewhat portable so I can easily take it into the field. Please keep in mind, I'm a broke college kid and I cant afford to be doing top of the line productions. But I want enough to be effective and not have my work sound like a 5 year old did it.

FYI.... current "gear" list. (it's pathetic, i know....)

Macbook Pro with Pro Tools M-Powered 8 Essentials, Logic Studio, Final Cut Studio, and Adobe Master Collection

Zoom H4N (portable phantom power ftw)

ATH-2020 USB microphone

So... Anyone with the patience have any ideas for me?

In order to do any meaningful post production work, at a minimum you will need to invest in Pro Tools LE and DV Toolkit 2 or preferably Complete Production Toolkit for more tracks and surround capability.

[mikevarela]

My advice,

don't rush out and buy things you don't know you need or want. Find out what you'd like to do, then SLOWLY build kit around it. The industry is amazingly expensive and it's sucks to be cut short because you saw an ad for the next amazing widget.

Try and read several books first, get an idea of the scope and duty each person performs.

You'd be safe at this point buying a computer, but then decide what software package you'd like. If pro tools... I'd stay away from M-Powered. Ditch that final cut pro and get yourself a 003 rack or mbox pro and the dv toolkit.

FCP is nice, but as audio guys, we mostly use it for ac3 encoding. always good to learn the other side (video editing), but if you're serious about sound then immerse yourself in it and learn till you feel somewhat confident.

good luck