- 1. AES-LA meeting Aug 27, 2013
- (Upcoming Events)
- ... by Harman, a discussion about Audio over IP (AoIP) and the huge Studer Demo Truck will be in the Parking Lot. Presenter will be Rob Lewis, Director of Sales-USA for Studer Professional Audio, a division ...
- Created on August 22, 2013
- 2. Audio CD versus Data CD with audio files
- (General Questions)
- Every semester, students submit audio projects to me in the wrong format. Professional recordings are made in the .WAV or .BWF (broadcast wave file) formats. Those are the formats that digital audio recorders ...
- Created on October 19, 2011
- 3. Audio concerns for shooting with RED cam
- (General Questions)
- ... have a -10 dB attenuator built into them, so that the end result is that with a professional 0 dB input from a mixer, you would have the normal 20 dB of headroom for your audio signal. If you are working ...
- Created on August 30, 2011
- 4. CTVA 358 Quiz One
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... A producer asks you “What is your daily rate?” What would be a professional answer? 9. List the three sub-categories of WILD LINES? 1)____________________________ 2)______________________________ 3)_______________________________ 10. ...
- Created on March 06, 2021
- 5. Did you check your work?
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... timecode, or indicate if the project does not have timecode? Reference tone is part of the header. Room tone is part of Take 1. Do the submitted materials reflect your best and most professional image? ...
- Created on December 01, 2015
- 6. For week ending Feb 12, 2021
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- Our Zoom class begins at 09:00am. Please be on time. We will finish our topic of Professional Approach, and maybe cover Audio Essentials and Sound Elements. Links to the powerpoints are pinned above. As ...
- Created on February 06, 2021
- 7. For week ending Feb 21, 2020
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... will work as a professional crew, performing the roles of mixer, boom, utility, Director, AD, camera, asst camera, talent, and background. www.filmtvsound.com/index.php/college-cl...ises/204-the-airport You ...
- Created on February 15, 2020
- 8. For week ending Feb 5, 2021
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... be: Audio Essentials, Sound Elements, and Professional Approach. The links to these powerpoint lectures are pinned above. drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1w6d9...kjo7PIZiQkTnb8eXiS6- In the READING ...
- Created on January 29, 2021
- 9. For week ending Oct 19, 2018
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- During the last two weeks you all got a realistic feel of mixing sound on a set. I know that I kept the pressure up, and held you all to "professional standards". You should all be proud; the ...
- Created on October 14, 2018
- 10. For week ending Sept 20, 2019
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... & talk" boomed dialogue. Later, we will up the ante and add a hidden planted mic. Remember to bring your professional headphones for the shoot. Don't forget the 1/4-inch stereo tip that came with ...
- Created on September 14, 2019
- 11. For week ending Sept 27,2019
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... & talk" boomed dialogue. Later, we will up the ante and add a hidden planted mic. Remember to bring your professional headphones for the shoot. Don't forget the 1/4-inch stereo tip that came with ...
- Created on September 21, 2019
- 12. For week ending Sept 4, 2020
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- Our topic for the next couple of weeks is Professional Approach, including Production planning, crew responsibilities, salaries, rental houses, etc. This covers a lot of the business side of production ...
- Created on August 30, 2020
- 13. For week ending Sept 6, 2019
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- Welcome to our new and returning CTVA students. Last week was our first session. This coming week we will get down to the BUSINESS (pardon the pun) of learning about Prod Sound. Our topic is Professional ...
- Created on September 01, 2019
- 14. Gotta laugh at this request (it is for r
- (Looking For Crew)
- Sound mixer WITH GEAR for $50 per day? Maybe they left off a zero.... or are they just crazy! To: Equipment Emporium Inc Fred Ginsburg We have a new request for your company. Hello,
- Created on October 28, 2013
- 15. Handheld digital recorders...
- (General Questions)
- ... talk about going professional with the recorders, bear in mind that they are only two-track and non-timecode. So that would only be a back-up track of what you would be sending to a camcorder. It would ...
- Created on November 25, 2012
- 16. LAPPG mtg about RX6
- (Upcoming Events)
- ... around each title. Jason is the founder of Filmmaking Stuff, a professional resource for independent filmmakers, and his articles on independent movie marketing and distribution have been featured in Film ...
- Created on September 10, 2018
- 17. LAPPG mtg Sept 12, 2012 - Los Angeles
- (Upcoming Events)
- ... films as well as produces soundtracks for award-winning features, documentaries. He collaborates with thousands of indie bands, composers and audio professionals to create soundtracks that stand up to ...
- Created on August 31, 2012
- 18. LAPPG mtg Wed Sept 9 - Santa Monica CA
- (Upcoming Events)
- ... and works for Sony International, bringing American television shows to countries around the world, by training production professionals in various countries. During the early years of his career he worked ...
- Created on August 26, 2015
- 19. LAPPG upcoming events
- (Upcoming Events)
- ... as Noise Reduction and Flicker Fixer, lens flares, lights, chroma keyes and mattes, color correction tools, blurs, glows and cinematic effects. With over 1,000 professionally-designed presets which are ...
- Created on December 04, 2012
- 20. Quiz One Due by Oct 2, 2020
- (CSUN - CTVA 358)
- ... rate?” What would be a professional answer? 9. List the three sub-categories of WILD LINES? 1)____________________________ 2)______________________________ 3)_______________________________ 10. Give an ...
- Created on September 22, 2020
- 21. Rock N Roller sound/video location cart
- (Product Announcements)
- ... the professional film and video industries for an affordable, lightweight, yet versatile equipment cart preconfigured with a 2-tier work shelf system for use as a sound cart, video cart, or DIT station. The ...
- Created on September 19, 2013
- 22. TREW Audio TREWPALOOZA sound event Oct 5
- (Upcoming Events)
- TREW Audio (near Burbank Airport) will be holding an audio equipment festival with food, drinks, prizes, etc at their place on Oct 5. Get to network with professional mixers, see new equipment, buy used ...
- Created on September 01, 2019
- 23. Wireless Booms?
- (General Questions)
- Hi Prof. Ginsburg As I've noticed in the professional field, a lot of sound mixers have switch from hard-wired boom to the wireless boom set up, so that the boom operator can move around and between people ...
- Created on October 03, 2011
- 24. Professionalizing My Soundcart
- (Articles)
- ... your workflow and match your professional image. On my carts, I have transformed bare frames into my own remote studio, putting what I need right there within my grasp... neat, organized, yet secure for ...
- Created on September 12, 2013
- 25. Chapter 4: Personnel of a Professional Sound Crew
- (Series - Preparing for Your Shoot)
- The basic production sound crew consists of the Mixer, the Boom Operator, and the Utility Sound Technician. The Mixer is the head of the Production Sound Department (usually just called the Sound Dept.) ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 26. FaceBook "Sound and Food" closed (private) grou
- (Sound Q BBQ)
- ... cooking techniques so that the rest of us might learn something! Fred along with several other professional sound mixers have posted recipes, tips, techniques, and other worthy information about smoking, ...
- Created on September 02, 2019
- 27. From our FilmTVsound pitmasters
- (Sound Q BBQ)
- ... of presentation/appearance, tenderness, and taste. Many of these pitmasters are professionals and operate their own restaurants or catering companies. But many are just amateurs out to see how well they ...
- Created on September 30, 2018
- 28. FREE professional editing software
- (Post Production)
- DaVinci Resolve 15 (beta) is a totally professional video, audio, color timing, and FX software bundle from Blackmagic Design -- and it's FREE to download! That's right... FREE. And you do not have to ...
- Created on August 03, 2018
- 29. Elements of the Soundtrack
- (Fundamentals of Audio Production)
- Sound is a multi-layered mixture of various elements. All things audio make up the soundtrack, and each has their own respective priorities, contexts, and purpose. Elements of the Soundtrack ...
- Created on August 23, 2015
- 30. Advice for new Sound Mixers
- (Fred's Blog )
- On Sunday, Mar 8, 2015 -- K-tek hosted a gathering of almost 100 production sound professionals at their Vista, CA factory & headquarters. During lunch, I was asked by a relative new-comer to the Hollywood ...
- Created on March 09, 2015
- 31. Location Sound Bible by Ric Viers
- (Book Reviews)
- ... for filmmaking. Having myself spent decades writing and compiling articles about Production Sound, along with lecturing & instructing college students as well as professional audiences around the world ...
- Created on January 20, 2013
- 32. Log Sheets, Sound Reports, Header ID
- (Fred's Blog )
- ... as professionally incompetent. You should always record and include one Header ID file along with each batch of dailies turned in, as well as on each individual media card or drive that is being saved ...
- Created on December 29, 2012
- 33. Log Sheets, Sound Reports, Header ID
- (Production Planning)
- ... as professionally incompetent. You should always record and include one Header ID file along with each batch of dailies turned in, as well as on each individual media card or drive that is being saved ...
- Created on December 29, 2012
- 34. Soundcarts
- (Other Accessories)
- It has been said that if you were to ask 300 professional sound mixers to describe their idea of a perfect soundcart, you would get at least 500 different answers! Everyone in this business has ...
- Created on March 01, 2012
- 35. LAPPG One-Day Workshop on Sound
- (Workshops)
- LAPPG Presents: A ONE DAY INTENSIVE ON SOUND FOR DIGITAL FILMMAKERS Creating a professional sound project. With Dr. Fred Ginsburg CAS and Woody Woodhall CAS Take this fall to brush up your sound ...
- Created on October 11, 2011
- 36. Equipment Emporium is now FilmTVsound
- (News)
- Welcome to our new website! For those of you who were expecting to see Equipment Emporium -- it has evolved into a new name, and an improved website. Membership subscriptions for the old site have been ...
- Created on September 13, 2011
- 37. Sound for Surfing
- (Production Advice)
- Yesterday, one of my former students met with me to discuss recording audio for a video about surfing that he and his colleagues were planning. Recording production sound out on the ocean is not a simple ...
- Created on September 10, 2011
- 38. Trew Audio acquires Coffey Sound
- (Industry Happenings)
- ... heard anything bad about them; and my personal dealings with Glen Trew have always been friendly and professional. He is a good man. Overall, I think we are all better served with Coffey being owned ...
- Created on September 07, 2011
- 39. Introduction to Production Sound
- (Production Planning)
- ... knowledge of audio circuitry. They know how to operate their equipment, but it is not professionally necessary to be able to perform any sort of extensive repairs. (Technicians back at the sound shop do ...
- Created on August 29, 2011
- 40. Guide for Creating a Professional Résumé
- (Networking)
- Here are some tricks and tips to help graduating students and novices to create a functional professional resume. Bear in mind that a good resume will not get you work. At best, it will get you an interview. ...
- Created on August 29, 2011
- 41. [PDF] Guide to the Nagra 4.2 and Production Sound Recording - 2nd Edition
- (Textbooks)
- The acclaimed textbook used in universities nationwide, used by students and professionals alike. This extensive book covers in-depth the usage of the venerable Nagra 4.2, as well as numerous other articles ...
- Created on August 28, 2011
- 42. The Professional Approach
- (Location Sound Recording)
- Good sound does not just happen on its own. It requires a dedicated crew and proper equipment. This presentation discusses the roles of mixer, boom and utility; along with equipment packages and dealing ...
- Created on August 26, 2011
- 43. Consistency in Sound Recording
- (Sound Design)
- ... found on many professional mixers, a level of minus 8 is the rough equivalent of zero on a VU meter. Peak meters are calibrated in terms of measuring the loudest part of the signal that can be recorded ...
- Created on August 26, 2011
- 44. Monitoring the Soundtrack
- (Audio Techniques)
- ... MDR-7506 Professional Headphones. Long considered to be a standard of the industry. More times than not, the camera operator (with headphones draped over their neck) will grin and give us a thumbs ...
- Created on August 26, 2011
- 45. ENG Mixing Panels for Production Sound
- (Mix Panels)
- ... group of mixing panels different than their ENG brethren is that they offer complete and smooth control of the audio inputs and outputs. This advanced control of the signal is essential in professional ...
- Created on August 23, 2011
- 46. Chapter 1: The Soundtrack, Past and Present
- (Series - Elements of the Soundtrack)
- ... I had the necessary skills, including professional still photographic as well as cinematographic experience. Actually, I figured that no one would hire me outright as a Director of Photography, so I planned ...
- Created on August 23, 2011
- 47. Chapter 2: Elements of the Soundtrack
- (Series - Elements of the Soundtrack)
- ... whatever is up on screen that moment. Narration tracks can physically be recorded either in a professional recording studio (with full acoustic isolation from any outside noise), or as a “wild track” ...
- Created on August 22, 2011
- 48. Production Sound Class Projects
- (Sample Projects)
- ... Three Project Four Description of Projects Projects are held to professional standards! Understand that you are not here to continue your “high school” education. You are here to earn an advanced ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 49. Production Sound Reading List
- (College Classes)
- The Basics Elements of the Soundtrack series Introduction to Production Sound Priorities of the Mixer The Hierarchy of Mic Techniques Log sheets, sound reports, headers Calling for the roll ...
- Created on August 19, 2011
- 50. There is more to learning Filmmaking than filmmaking.
- (For Students)
- ... catastrophic software crashes is to never poop where you eat, so to speak. Dedicate one computer to filmmaking, and only populate it with professionally relevant software. Keep it physically disconnected ...
- Created on January 18, 2022
- 51. Software for Podcasting
- (Production Advice)
- ... build your podcast in WAV, using the MP3 files as sources. The paid version of Zencastr is $18 to $20 per month, and makes sense if you are doing this commercially/professionally. Unlike the free version, ...
- Created on February 11, 2021
- 52. We don’t do this as a hobby!
- (For Students)
- This article was written for Student Filmmaker Magazine. As an educator and former Hollywood sound mixer, I really wish that universities would devote less time teaching calculus and more time explaining ...
- Created on January 28, 2021
- 53. Student Scripts for the pandemic world
- (For Students)
- ... shot with full student crews, rented professional equipment, SAG actors, with budgets in the $25-50,000 range. Although some of these films have won awards internationally, their primary achievement was ...
- Created on July 15, 2020
- 54. COVID-19 and Why you should NOT postpone your college education
- (For Students)
- ... understanding of how and why we do what we do on the set. I recalled the first thing that I concluded after leaving college with a freshly printed diploma & transcript – working with seasoned professionals ...
- Created on May 28, 2020
- 55. No Excuses for the Low Budget Filmmaker
- (For Students)
- ... earn some bragging rights. All of us have been there and done that in our respective professional fields. Several days later, it was time to sample her culinary skillset. The company had discussed with ...
- Created on February 10, 2020
- 56. Do you really need a mixing panel?
- (Mix Panels)
- ... out, volume adjustments (riding gain) between actors, and selection of tracks will be tasks left up to the editors. However, professional films are not recorded that way! By the time that the editors ...
- Created on June 25, 2019
- 57. Added production value… Re-enactors!
- (Production Planning)
- ... would be nice to have a bunch of costumed players and period encampments in the background! On a big Hollywood show, that would entail hiring a lot of professional “extras” as well as trained stunt ...
- Created on April 14, 2019
- 58. Phonetic Alphabet
- (Fred's Blog )
- When we voice slate, you should always use a phonetic alphabet rather than just saying, "aye, bee, see, dee, eee". Many of our letters sound similar and rhyme; which could make them harder to hear, what ...
- Created on October 25, 2018
- 59. Choosing a good film school
- (Networking)
- ... population that need to access them. So being able to “checkout” a professional production package or “book time” in the post production rooms may not be that easy! Do your homework and ask a lot of questions. ...
- Created on July 03, 2018
- 60. Reconnecting to Quicken to update banking transactions
- (Fred's Blog )
- Being a professional sound mixer entails more than just mixing audio; you also have to maintain a business! Keeping good financial records is a must, and many of us utilize either Quicken or QuickBooks ...
- Created on March 18, 2018
- 61. Syllabus
- (CTVA 358)
- ... and equipment operation as currently utilized on professional theatrical productions, and how those approaches can be utilized on productions of any scope — be they theatrical or non-theatrical, film or ...
- Created on August 22, 2017
- 62. Syllabus
- (Sample Syllabus)
- ... and equipment operation as currently utilized on professional theatrical productions, and how those approaches can be utilized on productions of any scope — be they theatrical or non-theatrical, film or ...
- Created on August 22, 2017
- 63. Garage Sale (used shotgun mics)
- (News)
- ... of professional toys. (And if I do need something extra that I don't own, I can borrow it or rent it.) On the same token, I realize that most of our readers are just getting started and have to watch ...
- Created on March 11, 2017
- 64. TASCAM releases new firmware for HS-P82
- (Recorders)
- ... TASCAM's re-dedication to supporting and improving this product. Over the years, professional users of the recorder have been providing the TASCAM engineers a list of the changes/improvements that we ...
- Created on October 09, 2016
- 65. Basic Audio for Indie Project
- (Production Planning)
- ... part to fix in the mix. A great way to do this is by reducing all of the background sounds to the minimum. Another method used by professionals is lowering your recording input levels to -12 decibels and ...
- Created on July 14, 2016
- 66. Mic Level vs Line Level
- (Recorders)
- ... make sure that the recorder input is set for line level (or else it will be too loud and distort). One more thing to note. In the real world, there are actually two different levels of Line Level. Professional ...
- Created on April 09, 2016
- 67. Review of Sanken shotguns
- (Shotgun)
- Here are reviews of the Sanken CS1e, CS3e, and Cinela Shockmount contributed by Thi Dinh. Thi is a recent grad of CSUN's film program and was one of my top audio students. He has been mixing professionally ...
- Created on March 12, 2016
- 68. CAS Student Scholarship Award
- (Networking)
- ... organization, was formed in 1964 for the purpose of sharing information with Sound Professionals in the Motion Picture and Television Industry. The objectives of the CAS are: to educate and inform the ...
- Created on September 16, 2015
- 69. Audio Essentials
- (Fundamentals of Audio Production)
- An academic in-depth look into the physics behind sound and audio, and how the science comes into play in professional audio recording. Audio Essentials from FilmTVsound Click to download ...
- Created on August 23, 2015
- 70. Use all your tracks!
- (Recorders)
- ... create chaos on a film shot over several days. In the dayes of olde, when memory cards were small in capacity but large in pirce -- it might have made sense to try and conserve. But these days, a professional ...
- Created on April 09, 2015
- 71. Audio Metering: An Introduction
- (Recorders)
- ... be recorded? What should it read on the meter?” depends mostly on what type of meter you are looking at. Essentially, there are three types of professional audio meters that you are likely to encounter, ...
- Created on March 05, 2015
- 72. Basic Equipment Package
- (Production Planning)
- ... also have a simple Sign Video ENG-44 (4x2) over the shoulder mixer for run & gun. Of course I travel with a few pair of professional headphones. Closed ear, flat response, impedance between 35 ohms to ...
- Created on February 02, 2015
- 73. System 10 Wireless: First Look
- (News)
- ... Here is what Fred has to say about the new unit. To begin with, the quality of the audio is extremely clear and clean. Even though it is not touted as a "professional grade" wireless, I would have ...
- Created on November 23, 2014
- 74. Tascam: HS-P82 recorder Users Guide for Film/Video v1.20
- (Phoca Download / HS-P82 recorder Users Guide for Film/Video v1.20)
- ... reflects the latest v1.20 firmware additions and improvements. It also includes detailed explanations for the novice about preferred settings and real life workflow for professional filmmaking applications. ...
- Created on December 22, 2012