Audio Post using Adobe Audition, at Binary Recording Studio

In our Post Audio suite in the studio we use Adobe Audition as our audio DAW, 5 to 1 mix for this animation film. Binary Recording Studio

Recording Cello, at Binary Recording Studio

We use a ribbon mic about a foot away from the F hole of the instrument, sometime a room mic also about 6 feet away.  Really depends on the part they are playing.  Binary Recording Studio

Minimoog on the tracks, Binary Recording studio

Adding some Minimoog to fatten up the track. Binary Recording Studio

We like the Waves Abbey Road Chambers plugin at Binary Recording Studio

I have always enjoyed using different live spaces for my ambience in the recording we do.   We have sent the sound signal into different rooms and re-mic it for the ambience the space provided .  I did come from a background of using chambers, hallways and elevator shafts to create a natural sounding reverb.  Here is a video demo of some of the reverb sound from Waves of the plug-in.  I like it! Very smooth sounding, and a great price.
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Film Festival or Not?

You have your film done and your thinking about doing the film festival route, here a few things to think about.

The good thing about film festivals is that you get a change to have your film juried.  Meaning a group of people will decide if your film is the quality that they would want at their festival.
You and your friends may think that your film is the best, but when it's out there being judged with other films you will get a better idea on how well it communicates.  This is great to get a independent objective view of your film.

Film festivals are a good place to meet other film makers. Its a tough business and its good to make connections for future endeavors.

Film festival cost money to submit your film.  It cost money to put these things on so there is a reason  for the cost.  You can spend a lot of money submitting your film with no results, so be prepared.

There are a couple basic things your can do to increase your change of being accepted.
Submit to film festivals that are the right fit for your film.  This seems like a no brainer but submitting to Sundance with your first film might be a waist of time and money.  Start with the smaller festivals first to get some feedback.

Programming a film festival means getting as many films in as possible.  If your film is 1 hour and 8 min's it might be hard to fit it into the program.  The length of your film makes a difference in the festival programmers job of putting a festival together.

Put your film online, Vimeo, YouTube, and a host of others, that are free to see what type of feedback you get with your film.

Put on your own local film festival in house, get some other film makers in the area and do a house party.  We have done these in the past, its a great starting point.

Make more films!

Recording fiddle in the studio with Crow Magnet

Andy engineering the Crow Magnet session, Chris laying down some fiddle parts

"Groove Agent"great beats

Groove Agent in Cubase is one of the better virtual drum machines I have used.  Great samples with lots- o -editing options. www.binaryrecordingstudio.com

Syncing ADR, Adobe's NEW Automatic Speech Alignment

In the new version of Adobes Audition 2014 they have added a nice feature for aligning your audio. check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I660VJ2S_v0





Audio post via Dropbox for your next project?  www.binaryrecordingstudio.com