- 1. Audio CD versus Data CD with audio files
- (General Questions)
- ... for listening playback; not for incorporation into a professional soundtrack. When you burn a CD for dailies, or to turn in professional recordings -- the technique is to drag and drop your .WAV or .BWF ...
- Created on October 19, 2011
- 2. For week ending Feb 20, 2013
- (CSUN - CTVA 250)
- ... be a discussion of film stocks, lighting continued, viewing dailies from the other week, and discussion of projects. We will also try to have some time for group meetings. Wednesday we will resume our ...
- Created on February 17, 2013
- 3. Photograph your Sound Reports
- (Tips & Tricks)
- This great tip came from soundmixer Jerry Wolfe. In addition to turning in your sound reports each day, take a snapshot of them with your smart phone or camera. You can email the shots to post production, ...
- Created on September 15, 2014
- 4. Tape the tip of your boom mic
- (Tips & Tricks)
- Just because the camera operator doesn't complain about seeing the boom mic in the viewfinder does not necessarily mean that the mic will not appear later on when the scene is viewed on a full sized monitor ...
- Created on September 06, 2011
- 5. Timecode issues with Arri Alexa
- (General Questions)
- Greetings Professor, I have a question about Timecode in the Alexa camera model. Here is what happened. Yesterday, we were having some issues matching the Timecode on the camera display to the slate ...
- Created on April 26, 2014
- 6. Why is Time Of Day (TOD) timecode used b
- (General Questions)
- ... camera media (hard drive number, or P2 card number, etc.) Again, this provides redundant metadata for Post to use in tracking the dailies. The audio recorder is always the Master timecode, and everything ...
- Created on March 19, 2014
- 7. Seat Warmers - Hot food, bad dailies
- (Production Advice)
- The seat warmer trick, Or why to always back up your dailies before the PA runs away with the flash drives. The seat warmers in many cars are sometimes used to help keep take-out food warm on the way ...
- Created on February 22, 2020
- 8. We don’t do this as a hobby!
- (For Students)
- ... the time to mixdown your iso tracks until the final stages of post-production. Instead, they will sync dailies and create their rough cuts by playing all of your recorded tracks at the same time; and it ...
- Created on January 28, 2021
- 9. Do you really need a mixing panel?
- (Mix Panels)
- ... view the dailies and begin their rough edits – they should be working with sound files that are almost cinema ready. Editors want to be able to assemble their first cuts based on visual and story content ...
- Created on June 25, 2019
- 10. Basic sound package for student productions
- (Production Planning)
- ... (Post Production) may want dailies on CD/DVD disks or flash drives. Ask. Most of your toys require batteries. Mics, radio mics, slates, some recorders, Comteks, etc. Stock up. Rigging accessories for ...
- Created on March 22, 2019
- 11. Using your production recording tracks strategically
- (Recorders)
- ... These live mixes were known as the “Production Track” and served as the temporary soundtrack for dailies and the initial picture cut. After the picture was declared “locked”, the sound editors would ...
- Created on March 18, 2018
- 12. Calling for the roll aka “Turn ‘Em Over” (text)
- (Audio Techniques)
- ... or digital media that you turn in for dailies. ASST DIRECTOR: to sound mixer “Put us on a light and bell. Quiet on the set.” Light and Bell System is remote controlled at the soundcart, and activates ...
- Created on March 18, 2018
- 13. Use all your tracks!
- (Recorders)
- ... amongst a greater number of project tracks. If your multi-track recorder is capable of recording two master tracks and eight ISO's, then always turn in dailies with two master tracks and eight ISO's, even ...
- Created on April 09, 2015
- 14. Advice for new Sound Mixers
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... The best you will do is mediocre. If the editor is not willing to actually view and mix down every take in the dailies -- the production company will hear too many open tracks and begin to plan for ADR, ...
- Created on March 09, 2015
- 15. Basic Equipment Package
- (Production Planning)
- ... The “tactical” radio mics are the ones that I plan on mixing directly into my “live mix” that will serve as dailies and picture edit. The “defensive” group of wireless is used strictly for back-up ISO’s, ...
- Created on February 02, 2015
- 16. No time for playback
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... me as similarly silly to not be able to hear the dialogue during these "dailies". In the days of sprocketed film, we always provided an audio feed to the video assist technicians so that their "video" ...
- Created on March 19, 2014
- 17. Timecode Threads
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... as the “live mix” – which will serve for dailies and picture edit. We recommend actually recording in “attenuated dual mono”, which means that in addition to the primary “live mix”, you consider recording ...
- Created on October 03, 2013
- 18. Syllabus
- (CTVA 250)
- ... This project will require a script, storyboard, dailies, and edited final project. Students may be allowed reshoots in order to correct any drastic mistakes with permission of the instructor. The students ...
- Created on January 16, 2013
- 19. Syllabus
- (CTVA 230)
- ... for disasters or no-shows are essential in 230. Attendance (and being on time) in class, meeting deadlines for dailies, rough cuts, and fine cuts are all a part of the professional behavior of a filmmaker ...
- Created on January 16, 2013
- 20. Log Sheets, Sound Reports, Header ID
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... (The decision to earmark a take as "printed" is done to economize the creation of sync picture + audio dailies, and is usually determined on the basis of picture quality and performance quality. Rarely, ...
- Created on December 29, 2012
- 21. Log Sheets, Sound Reports, Header ID
- (Production Planning)
- ... (The decision to earmark a take as "printed" is done to economize the creation of sync picture + audio dailies, and is usually determined on the basis of picture quality and performance quality. Rarely, ...
- Created on December 29, 2012
- 22. Advice for First Feature Indie
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... get the picture & audio ready for theatrical release! For audio, you will record the usable tracks on your Zoom. What goes to the Canon will just be a scratch track, for dailies & instant playback. Don' ...
- Created on November 14, 2012
- 23. Updates for the Tascam HS-P82
- (Recorders)
- ... stops when the camera runs or stops -- thus generating a continuous timecode in the picture dailies -- you can do the same with your audio. The Tascam will start/stop based on the external timecode that ...
- Created on October 21, 2012
- 24. M-S Stereo Simplified
- (Sound Design)
- ... end of your dailies do not fully understand how M-S works, there is almost a certainty that your client will preview the most awful excuse for stereo audio that zombies can cook up! Good M-S does not happen ...
- Created on August 17, 2012
- 25. Some product news from Tascam
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... means that you have a spare card that you can turn in for dailies and still keep a copy for yourself. True, it is rare that post-production would get one of your original compact flash cards. More likely ...
- Created on December 01, 2011
- 26. User Guide to the Tascam HS-P82 for Film/Video Applications
- (Recorders)
- ... to 100% all the way left, or all the way right, so that there is no overlap of audio onto both tracks. During the editing process, a hard left or hard right set of dailies can be panned to screen center ...
- Created on November 29, 2011
- 27. Audio CD versus Data CD with Audio Files
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... are intended for listening playback; not for incorporation into a professional soundtrack. When you burn a CD for dailies, or to turn in professional recordings -- the technique is to drag and drop your ...
- Created on October 19, 2011
- 28. Audio CD versus Data CD with Audio Files
- (For Students)
- ... are intended for listening playback; not for incorporation into a professional soundtrack. When you burn a CD for dailies, or to turn in professional recordings -- the technique is to drag and drop your ...
- Created on October 19, 2011
- 29. Review of LAPPG one-day workshop on sound
- (Industry Happenings)
- ... production track served for dailies, picture edit, and most of the final soundtrack. I then went on to cover how two-track gave us more options; and then with four-track -- Hollywood went back to the monaural ...
- Created on October 17, 2011
- 30. Student Dictionary of Filmmaking Terms
- (Editorial)
- ... middle, and end. Pick fourteen. Comedy Spoof: rethinking the serious melodrama after viewing the dailies Cinema Verite: we deleted the file with the script Emotive Chroma Interpretation: we were ...
- Created on August 30, 2011
- 31. Introduction to Production Sound
- (Production Planning)
- ... often with timecode. On feature films, it is not uncommon to see two recorders on the soundcart: a multi-track deck for recording isolated tracks; and a simpler two-track recorder for dailies and the picture-cut. ...
- Created on August 29, 2011
- 32. Using a Microphone Boompole
- (Boompoles)
- ... routinely fixable -- lest they fret or worry during dailies or video playbacks! Sometimes it is much more difficult to boom from below, due to the presence of set furniture or the choreography of foreground ...
- Created on August 25, 2011
- 33. Multi-track Recording for Film & Video
- (Recorders)
- ... audio acquired by multiple mics (boom1, boom2, planted mics, and lavaliers) into one cohesive soundtrack (the production track). This live mixed soundtrack would serve as the audio for dailies, and then ...
- Created on August 25, 2011
- 34. Deal Memos
- (Production Planning)
- ... Friday, and that check is not there, then make it very clear that it had better be there by the next morning. Holding back your roll of dailies can help make the point; even if it means accidentally turning ...
- Created on August 23, 2011
- 35. Two-Track Mixing for Location Dialogue
- (Sound Design)
- ... audio with the production picture. If the production company wants audio recorded onto the camcorder as well, it would be for the purpose of screening "dailies" or playbacks; as well as for the basic ...
- Created on August 23, 2011
- 36. Chapter 1: The Soundtrack, Past and Present
- (Series - Elements of the Soundtrack)
- In Hollywood, we have a saying, "You live or die in the dailies!" Because that is when the producer evaluates the performance of the entire crew. In the real world, where time is money, no one is going ...
- Created on August 23, 2011
- 37. Using a Mixing Panel for Location Dialogue
- (Mix Panels)
- ... timecode recorder on my cart (intended for the sound editor) as well as being able to send a two-track version to the camera (for dailies and picture edit). Note that when a board is described as two ...
- Created on August 22, 2011
- 38. Chapter 3: Production Sound
- (Series - Elements of the Soundtrack)
- ... to prefer clean, isolated dialogue with effects and ambiance recorded separately. However, the expression that "you live or die in the dailies" seems to countermand the notion about Production Sound being ...
- Created on August 21, 2011
- 39. Chapter 3: Even the Experts Learn From Each Other
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- ... excellent (though a little stubborn) than for being easy (but incompetent). There are no apologies nor excuses run under the dailies. Good sound is always expected (and taken for granted). Bad sound, ...
- Created on August 20, 2011
- 40. Chapter 4: Post Production, Analog
- (Series - Elements of the Soundtrack)
- ... days of analog recording An editor would then sync up the dailies, by aligning the clapsticks on both picture and sound and matching the lengths of the two reels (either adding leader or cutting out ...
- Created on August 20, 2011
- 41. Class Projects
- (Chapman)
- ... you will transfer your audio files to a computer hard-drive and then copy your audio “dailies” to data CD or data DVD, which go to Post-Production. Digital audio recordings will be submitted to the Instructor ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 42. Class Projects
- (CTVA 358)
- ... package. The Header I.D. Header ID’s provide verbal information about the files being submitted. They may vary depending on the intent of the submitted files: are these dailies, or works in ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 43. Class Projects
- (CTVA 250)
- ... by each student. Each student within each group will sign a contractual agreement. All dailies, rough and fine cuts will be screened and evaluated in class as part of the learning experience. Use of ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 44. Film Class Projects
- (Sample Projects)
- ... All dailies, rough and fine cuts will be screened and evaluated in class as part of the learning experience. Use of professional facilities or technicians outside the department for mixing, shooting, ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 45. Production Sound Class Projects
- (Sample Projects)
- ... package. The Header I.D. Header ID’s provide verbal information about the files being submitted. They may vary depending on the intent of the submitted files: are these dailies, or works in ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 46. Class Schedule and Due Dates
- (CTVA 250)
- ... Rough Scripts Wed 03/20 Mid-Term Exam results and discussion Assignment Due: Camera/Editing Film Project raw footage dailies Mon 03/25 Selected Screenings Wed ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 47. Chapter 4: Personnel of a Professional Sound Crew
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- ... Boom Operator is to court disaster. For a Mixer to compliantly accept such a Boom Operator is to jeopardize his or her own career, since ultimately the Mixer is responsible for what they hear in the dailies. ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 48. Chapter 6: Post Production in the Digital Age
- (Series - Elements of the Soundtrack)
- ... of the production company. To screen dailies in film, the picture and sound first had to be transferred, synced up, and then was ready to project onto the big screen. To screen dailies in video, one ...
- Created on August 18, 2011
- 49. Chapter 6: Preparing Your Gear
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- ... There are no apologies nor excuses run under the dailies! Bottom line is that the Sound Mixer is responsible for checking each and every piece of gear that is earmarked for the shoot. Every recorder, every ...
- Created on August 17, 2011
- 50. Chapter 7: In Summary
- (Series - Elements of the Soundtrack)
- ... material for the editors, but sometimes it can be the end product itself. Classic film sound editing includes: transfer of dailies; syncing picture & sound; screening the dailies; picture edit with production ...
- Created on August 17, 2011
- 51. Chapter 7: Defining Equipment Packages
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- ... onto a CD or DVD to turn in as dailies. Another way to estimate your audio media needs is to find out how much film stock has been budgeted for. A one-thousand foot roll of 35mm runs at 90 feet per minute, ...
- Created on August 16, 2011
- 52. Chapter 9: Making a Budget
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- ... professional approach. Do it the best you know how, or don’t do it at all. They do not run apologies during the dailies; and your reputation will hinge on what they hear in the soundtrack. The basic ...
- Created on August 13, 2011