The Weird Trick to Making Cool Weapon Sounds with Blade of Honor
In this video, Cinema Sound instructor Mark Edward Lewis takes us under the hood of a StarBlade from the series Blade of Honor and shows us one of the crazy…
Creating Doppler Effects with Waves Audio
In this video Cinema Sound instructor Mark Edward Lewis demonstrates how Waves Audio plugin Doppler works on a spaceship flyby from the series Blade of Honor. Doing doppler effects for…
A surprising site: mastering plugins in FCPX
4 Reasons for Using a Compressor on Your Sound Effects (That You Don’t Know)
There’s a host of ways to have your sound effects sound amazing. Most all of the good ones are covered in the MZed Pro Member Education and in articles here…
Sound Effect Sorcery: Fight Club
This featurette video from FilmRadar (and write up from FilmSchoolRejects) so very beautifully demonstrates how Fincher took the cinematic world by storm with an incredibly biting and brutal movie called…
Ignore the ADR on Mad Max: Fury Road, it's terrible!
Audio Is 80% of the Audience Impact
We spent 4 years of our lives in film school, and we learned a lot about telling stories. But the biggest thing film school never told us was the real…
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The Editor Competitive Advantage
If you ask many editors, they'll tell you they can "do the audio mix for your independent project." If you've spent any time watching the Pro Member Education you know…
Four Reasons Why You Should Hire Your Sound Designer First
Sound Designer. It's a term that generally isn’t the first thought on someone’s mind when they say, “let’s make a movie.” But it’s a crucial position in the birth of…
Knowing How To Budget Post Sound is Critical to Filmmaking
The Unknown Secrets to Bidding and Budgeting Sound Post (You Don’t Know)
In this article I'm going to cover the specifics around what independent filmmakers need to know about the itemized portions of the cost of sound post. I'm also covering this…
A tornado will kill your hearing real fast. Ask Dorothy
The 4 Quickest Ways to Lose Your Hearing
Folks say that sight is our most precious sense as human beings. While that may be true in every day life, I'd argue that unless you're making silent films, the…
Multiband Compressor Shootout
Multiband Compressor Shootout! Audition vs. Ozone 7
At the top of the food chain of dynamics processing is the multiband compressor. Really many compressors mashed into one, these giants of processing power can suavely and smoothly contour…
