Sound design and A/V question.

[Sock sniffer]

I'm just curious as to how many of you do sound design and/or audio/visual work in conjunction with your music intrerests and work?

I've done a little of this in school and it perked my interest. I'm just wondering whats the nature and type of work in both your professional and project studios.

Since I'm starting out I will be trying to get some work in a project studio. What type of rig are you working on and how are you integrating the video? I've got a few connections that may lead to sound work with some freelance videographers and such. Any advice or past experiences welcome.

Thanks

[drBill]

Yes. I do sound design as well as music. Mostly music these days, but things tend to shift back and forth like a pendulum. I use Pro Tools HD. At least in LA, it's all PT. Extremely efficient. Sounds good. Movies play in-sync inside of pro tools (you import a quicktime movie) and you can send them out firewire to an external box like canopus which will feed a larger TV monitor if you choose. Not sure exactly what else you are looking for. Hope that helps.

[Sock sniffer]

thanks for the input! Being at the stage I am, any work will be via an LE system. How or in what format do you usually put the finished product/mix in? The short film I did in school we mixed everything down in stereo onto a DAT. I don't have a DAT in my line up and I imagine most people I work with won't either.

[drBill]

I deliver contiguous audio file stems. Either bounce down to the format they need - probably 24/48 - or mix back into PT and convert the files to their prefered format.

[DonM]

I teach Sound Design at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. I have done SD for film, theatre and interactive media. I have not yet worked as a designer in transaction based game audio - I would love too - just haven't been asked yet.

Most of my work is in classical production, depending on the time of year - Fall to Spring is classical, and Spring to Fall is usually when I do pop work.

-D

[clipgod]

Same here - sounud design and music production.

Especially for sound design, protools works best for me.
Where I could get by using logic for music, PT offers many easy to use
features for sound design, like audiosuite, intuitive manipulation of audo,
best sound design plug ins like pitchblender, the eventide stuff, echoboy, ...

[clipgod]

Ohh .... about the format ...

95% these days the files go online on a ftp server, at least for me.
I haven`t seen a DAT tape for at least 5 years.
I realized sound and video schools still use DATs, but in the "free world",
I don`t know a single persons who`s dealing with DATs.

Most of the time it`s .wav, 24/48, sometimes hires mp3, sometimes 16bit,
or sometimes a ProTools session containing the stems

The problem with firewire out devces is that you get a 2-4 frame latency,
depending on the model you use. I just installed a second grafics card
to monitor my video out signal on a third screen.

[Axiomhead]

Protools really is the only system I've been comfortable using for sound design...

Sound Design used to be my main gig, but now I'm doing about 80% band recording, and PT handles both situations great.

[pkautzsch]

I do classical, a little jazz, location/production sound, and a bit small-scale post.
The most reliable and compact system doing my remote stuff as well as mixing at "home" is Nuendo, which in contrast to PTHD runs perfectly well on a laptop without the need for PCI slots. So far, native power has been sufficient, but on larger projects this of course is an issue.

[blaugruen7]

living mostly on the experimental side of life, but having a strong love for melodies i do music and video.

do your videos in final cut pro, or even in imovie and i import it in sorenson format 320*240 in cubase and make the music.
that works great for me.

[Henchman]

My main gig is mxing for Film and TV.
Music is completely secondary, and I like it that way.
Outside of my main gig at a post facility here in town, I do the occasioanl post gig at home for a client who's a supervisor.
I'll usually do those entirely in Nuendo, because it allows me to do full surround, and deliver an encoded LTRT. As well as have no track limitations.

At work we use PT's, but the owner of the facility is setting up anothe rmix room, and what's to ahve both Nuendo and PT's in there. He wants to try and get away from Digi.

[JesseJ]

Originally Posted by blaugruen7

living mostly on the experimental side of life, but having a strong love for melodies i do music and video.

do your videos in final cut pro, or even in imovie and i import it in sorenson format 320*240 in cubase and make the music.
that works great for me.

I do that a lot too.

PS make every frame a keyframe and you can videoscratch your heart out!

[georgia]

I do music work a lot in the films I edit and the ones I sound design/mix. Sometime I even get my World Wide All Star Band (my staff, interns and myself) together and write/record something to fill a music cue requirement for one project or another. I'm always editing music for films and working as or with the Music Supervisor and composers....

cheers
geo

[minister]

Originally Posted by Sock sniffer

I'm just curious as to how many of you do sound design and/or audio/visual work in conjunction with your music intrerests and work?

i started as a musician and composer. i moved into sound designing small films maybe 10 years ago and then some commercial and into bigger films maybe 6 years ago.

now i do both (more than) full-time.

sometimes just the music. sometimes just the post. sometimes both music and post for a film or commercial piece (tv or high-end corp.). occasionally do a music only project. occasionally just record music. occasionally record/produce.


60% Music
40% Post

can be done.

oh, you can also sometimes music supervise...or select from produiction library tracks. i guess that is music...

however, this is not quite possible in LA. unless, you do a small side-business of your own clients at night. but who has time for that?

[jowillie]

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