UniqueTracks has added four brand new sound effects sets from Blastwave FX to our growing collection of royalty free Sound Effects products.
Podcaster
Podcaster has everything you need to produce a professional podcast. Add music or just a beat loop to your intro and immediately give a focus to the theme of your show. With over 500 sound effects (Animals, Cartoon Effects, Crashes, Human Effects, Vehicles, Weapons and more), this set will let you underscore the humerous, contentious and exciting moments of your podcast.
WebTones
If you design and create professional Flash productions or web sites, then you will want to add this large assortment of multimedia sounds to your production toolbox. The WebTones collection features 1000 unique buttons, clicks, rollovers, pings, beeps, hits and production elements that can easily be plugged into your next production. This collection will provide you with the tools you need to add sonic life to your virtual creations.
Spoilers - Movie Trailer Sound Beds
If you’ve ever wondered where to find those great sonic effects that Hollywood post production editors lay into movies, trailers and commercials, look no further. This incredible set by Blastwave FX will amp-up your production with the latest, most modern audio effects available on the royalty free market. This collection, on 4 DVDs, has 300 stereo movie trailers and compositions with matching 5.1 surround files, plus 200 high impact stereo imaging elements.
Drones
Using long, sustained, audio drone effects is one of the most effective ways of using sound to build drama and interest in a media production. The material contained in the 4 DVD set Drones by Blastwave FX is specially made to give your production a professional, Hollywood-caliber sheen. In total, this collection has over 10 hours of unique sound effects in stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound.
Blastwave FX develops next-generation HD sound effects libraries for professional audio production. Their design and engineering team constantly pushes the sound envelope with innovative product formats, rich metadata, multi-channel libraries and the highest resolution audio that technology allows.
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Don’t be fooled by the out-of-date graphic design on Stephanie Drotos’ Teaching Media Production website. This site lays out in very clear detail, everything you need to teach a nine week middle school media production course. The site was created by a middle teacher for other middle school teachers interested in creating (or expanding) media production courses concentrating on teaching stop-motion animation, desktop publishing, video production.
The site includes course outlines, day-to-day lesson plans, sample class handouts and teacher resources.
Stephanie explains, “For two years, I taught a middle school class called Media Production. This course lasted for nine weeks and was taught four times a year to both 8th graders and 6th graders. I designed the course and included topics in which I was personally interested. I’ve had lots of requests for information about teaching Media Production and wanted to make the information available to help other teachers.”
If you are an educator teaching media production, I think you’ll be well rewarded looking at Stehpanie’s course ideas.
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Whooshes, Washes, Crunches, Crashes, Hits, Rumbles, Pings…
Our new 1300+ Audio Imaging Sound Effects Library includes production elements geared towards Radio, Television, Multimedia and Game Design. You can download individual sound effects or choose a complete sound effects collection on CD-ROM.
High Impact Radio - Beds, Station IDs, Low Rumbles, Whooshes, Washes, Hits, Power Ups, Power Downs, Ascends, Descends, Stabs, Ramps, Start Ups and Stops
High Impact Television - Drone Beds, Promo Static, Whooshes to Hits, Low Rumbles, Laser Hits, Liquid Hits, Sweeps, Explosions, Feedback and Distortion, Transmissions
High Impact Multimedia - Clicks, Buttons, Beeps. Chimes, Pings, Start Up Screens, Musical Tones, Window Effects, Error Messages, Flash Elements, Pop-Up Elements, Shut Down Screens, Digital Readouts
High Impact Game Design - Explosions, Crashes, Crunches, Combat Weapons, Low Rumbles, Force Fields, Alien Movements, Fight Impacts, Underscores, Thunder, Fire, Static
Four Volume CD-ROM Pack - The four volume series is a great way to quickly build a substantial sound effects library with over 4 hours of royalty free production elements and sound effects.
Sound Effects Downloads - It is possible to purchase any single track from over 1300 individual sound files in our Audio Imaging Library and download it immediately to your computer as as an uncompressed WAV file (Red Book Audio 16 bit 44.1 kHz).
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One of the ways you can maximize the recordings you license from UniqueTracks is to use audio editing software to shape the music so that it works perfectly within your media project.
A simple example of this would be creating your own fade in or fade out on a portion of a track. A more complex example would be cutting an 8 measure section from the full length track and looping this segment as underscore.
Digital audio editing software lets you easily zoom in to a selection of the recording and accomplish powerful editing maneuvers.
There are a lot of digital editors available for both Windows and Mac platforms. Today I want to introduce you to a few of the lowest-priced editors available. These editors still pack a lot of editing power but at are priced at a level that will get you cutting and shaping your audio tracks for just a minimal investment.
To me, the real power of production music is attained when the end-user is free to edit the tracks. This is entirely within UniqueTracks’ standard license agreement. In fact, we really encourage you to experiment with the recordings to draw as much use from them as possible. You’ll just find that you can do much more with the tracks if you have the ability to massage and shape them, rather than just plop the whole thing in your timeline and live with it as is.
We’ve started a new Tools section on the UniqueTracks web site where we have made arrangements with various companies to offer trial versions of their audio editing software. I apologize in advance to Mac users, right now we only have Windows editors available.
So if you are a Windows user and maybe new to the whole world of digital audio editing, please browse through the various software packages we’ve included on the site. These are all try-before-you-buy programs that let you download a completely working version of the software to test for a certain period. If you find that the product is something of value and something you’ll use, you must purchase the product at the end of the trial period or the working version will expire. Prices are very reasonable for the editing power you’ll get (from $19 to $50).
Even if you already have a digital audio editor that you use, there is probably a small application here that will help you in your editing. We also have included some affordable digital video editing software and some cool little Flash apps that, if you develop for Flash, you may want to check out.
I have another reason for recommending these editors and it’s because in upcoming issues of the Underscore newsletter, I’d like to start offering some audio editing advice taking real examples from our music library. I field quite a few phone calls and emails from customers who are encountering audio editing issues and are looking for help.
A case in point, this week I was asked why MP3 files don’t seem to loop seamlessly - you can hear a bump in the loop. This is because the MP3 spec puts a sliver of silence at the beginning and ending of the audio file. You really can’t loop an MP3 file. That’s why all UniqueTracks loops are delivered in WAV format. I’d like to start talking about some of these issues. So grab yourself an digital editor and we can begin examining some cool audio editing techniques.
Apple Computer and Apple Learning Interchange has a very informative, course-like, web showcase entitled Videography for Educators. This exhibit features tips and techniques to assist in the creation of quality video products. The concepts, skills and examples are presented in a manner relevant to classroom teachers. The showcase assumes that you are somewhat familiar with digital editing software ie. iMovie or Final Cut.
Though this showcase is aimed primarily at teachers, it makes a great “Intro to Videography” for anyone. The showcase starts with the basics and moves through the video creation process.
Topics include:
Planning
Video Style
Production Decisions
Pre-Production Scouting
Equipment Setup
Effective Lighting
Effective Audio
Capturing the Video
Framing
The Art of Editing
And more
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We exchanged links with this site recently and I was very impressed with the focus of the site. If you create video for corporate clients or if you are producing in-house, take a look at 5·14 Productions
Owner Susan Wilcox says…”Scriptwriting for corporate, educational and documentary production is very different from screenwriting for films. There is very little crossover between professionals in each field, and writing for one does not qualify someone to write for the other. Most people in video production would not look for a feature film screenwriter to write a training video, for instance.
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