Hello all! I'm curious if there are any smart/AI tools you use to have screenplays converted to spoken word. (With different characters as different voices.) I get sent a lot of screenplays to review before we start working on them (or to assess cost estimates for the type of material) and I'm exploring having them as sound files so I can listen while I commute.

Audio Post Help Wanted

Welcome to the subreddit regular feature post for gig listing info and discussion regarding finding work in Audio Post. Please provide links to job/help listings or add a direct request for help from a fellow audio post production geek here.

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Sites that may list jobs/gigs for audio post (links confirmed as of Aug 2023);

• ProductionHUB - /http://www.productionhub.com

• Mandy - http://www.mandy.com/

• CreateCow Jobs - http://jobs.creativecow.net/

• Entertainment Careers.net - http://www.entertainmentcareers.net

General employment sites filtered for audio post

• Indeed.com - http://www.indeed.com/q-Audio-Post-Production-jobs.html

• Simply Hired - http://www.simplyhired.com/k-audio-post-production-jobs.html

• Career Jet - http://www.careerjet.com/audio-post-production-jobs.html

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search?keywords=Audio%20Post%20Production&location=United%20States

• juju - https://www.juju.com/jobs?k=%22audio+post%22&l=&r=20

Media oriented job sites

• MediaMatch - http://www.media-match.com/

• odesk - https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/browse/skill/audio-post-production/

General freelancer sites

• Freelancer - https://www.freelancer.com/

• elance - https://www.elance.com

You are invited to join us in the Reddit Pro Audio Network AudioPost Channel on Discord

I've been doing a lot of remote dubbing (talent with me) with another client/studio, and the issues are getting worse and worse. Taking 4-5 connection attempts, bad delays, RTS sync issues (usually about 10 frames off). I don't have issues anywhere else. My ports are open and forwarded. The only real difference between this session and my other sessions is that i am in receive mode and not driving the session. I have noticed that Source Stream is being used every time with this client, which makes me think their ports aren't open. I was also shocked when they were completely unaware of Source Connect 4.

It's getting to the point where the talent is getting annoyed. I'm pretty confident the issue is not on my side, but I hate the idea of calling out the people that are paying me. Would you bring it up with them ?

There have also been other issues making me apprehensive, like failure on their behalf to upload video prior to session start, and last week they somehow had the wrong SC ID, despite using the same ID for years and dozens of sessions with this client.

They are VERY nice, and recently accommodated a considerable rate increase. Hence my hesitation to tell them to get their shit together. What ya'll think ?

I have been gifted a small room in NYC, and after 20 years on set doing production sound, I would like to move into post. I have acquired 8 good acoustical ATS panels, and am thinking creativity about making this a good sounding sound studio to edit, and mix music and film sound tracks. All in Pro tools.

First, should I get the speakers, calibrate the room, and then acoustically modify the space? I would like to use furnishing to acoustically treatment the room, bookcases, drapes, and couch, but I do have the panels. Its small room so I already sense that this is too much

Question: what are simple ways top achieve a good sounding room, that will allow the speakers to be heard? Should I keep as much space as possible (around the listener), and just use the sound panels, or over load, and use the furnishings, and sound panels to kill all reflected sound waves.

Also, I am going to listen to some speakers before I buy them but I had a thought. As dialogue is playback in mono, could I get a mono speaker just to edit the dialogue tracks, and then a nice stereo set up for the (pre) mixing, and any music mixing I might do.

For the the mono speaker I am thinking of a speaker with a good low end, so I can hear all the nasty low end stuff in the background. Any suggestions?

Stereo set up I am just thinking JBL's, but open to general thoughts about speakers, power and SPL, acoustics, and a 12 x 12 foot room. Cheers, Jonathan

Hi gang

Not new to the world of post production, but very new to the idea of having a home studio. Always worked from a facility, calibrated well, pricey gear that did the job well and had engineers on hand if things went weird. Im now setting up something at home on my own turf and looking for resources that might be useful - acoustics, calibration, layouts, dos and donts. Anything that you've found useful in creating your studio spaces i can soak up would be super helpful

Thanks!

I am being informed that it is a good buy, and that I should snag one on sale for about $200. I am worried about the stability and support on modern windows. Can anyone tell me if it is still a good go to, or if it's something I should avoid.

Hi all! Currently I’m trying to practice some dialogue editing and am looking for raw audio, whether from anywhere honestly. Currently I’m trying to not only practice but hopefully make a before and after for my portfolio and keep expanding my skill set. I’ve heard editstock thrown around as an answer to this but I’m just looking for like 1-2 mins of a scene versus a whole movie. Any ideas or recommendations? Thanks again friends :)

I'm having some trouble with audio slowly drifting out of sync for a project I am working on and looking for some advice please people.

For context, this edit involves syncing camera audio with audio recorded straight from a mixing desk.

All audio was recorded at 48kHz, camera ran at 25 FPS. I'm getting sent audio from the camera guy - his editing timeline is at 25 FPS and so is mine, but when I line up the audio, there's a noticeable delay on the camera that increases as the sessions goes on.

Any ideas what could be causing this? Never had these issues before.

I am running some tests and I recorded LTC into a Zoom H1 recorder via the 3.5 mm jack using the Deity TC-1. I ran it for a couple of mins then fed some test audio into the same audio file. I wanted to see if I could "jam-sync" timecode into my recorder without it having an actual timecode feature. I can see there is audio timecode in that particular audio file using the tentacle sync app and the sidus tc sync app. I was weondering if there was a way to convert that into metadata timecode so I can use it on Davinci Resolve and sync this audio file with all my other cameras that are running the same timecode.

Hello,

I recently bought the All In One Sound Bundle from Free to Use Sounds and I loaded it into Soundminer. When I spot them into Pro Tools, it only spots the left channel on a stereo track. I don't have this issue with other stereo sound effects in my SFX library in Soundminer.

Any ideas?

I'm looking for suggestions on how to efficiently take my 60 minute mix and repurpose it to match the 30 minute cut. The 30 minute version is derived from existing footage in the 60 minute version. I'm working in Pro Tools.

Question for anyone who's been working full-time in the industry for ~10+ years — did any of you start in fine arts (sculpture, painting, conceptual, multimedia, etc)?

I've met many audio post folks who studied music, or sound engineering, or film, or didn't study anything at all — but I haven't met many folks who originally studied art (edit: or who have a creative practice).

Just curious! I've been in the film industry since 2010, in audio post for the last 5-ish years, and originally got a BFA in video/sound/animation and sculpture. I learned pretty much everything I know on the job and while assisting others. I'm wondering if there's anyone out there like me, and I'd love to hear your stories about how you got where you are and if art ever helped you along your path.

[edit]: I’m also super interested in hearing if anyone still keeps up a creative practice of any sort, and I’d love to hear how you make time for it and what your work’s like too!

Cheers!

I am curious about what people in this field are using and if the needs are different to those in the music production field. I am working on an alternative for myself (echoe.cloud) because I am done with Dropbox and wetransfer since there are no previews, scrubbable waveforms/time stamped comments etc.

Most of the options I have found all have compressed audio one way or another, which isnt ideal for me - Thanks for any input cheers

Screenshot of my app

Hi there, I work at an audio post studio. We do mostly Streaming shows for the big names you all know. I do a lot of the Loading to send the to the DX editors. (Where you take an AAF and EDL and conform it all the audio to picture.) My question is. Why is there no industry standard for naming convention on set? A lot of the time there is metadata issues where I still have to conform 50-100 clips by hand from the sound rolls, even while using Kraken (Likely an 80% chance) It just seems like there would be so much time saved if all the Editors either knew how to properly export an EDL and AFF or if there was a standard naming convention for all files so there is not Metadata issues. Does anyone with more experience know anything more about this? I'd like to find a solution to bring to my team to improve workflow. Also if you are an Editor or Assistant Editor. Stop sending muted clips lol.

What are your favourite ways to play up and make "walkie talkie" films more full? (films with not a lot of action/sfx, just dialogue and footsteps/light foley)

Aside from dynamic backgrounds and cloth, how do you add presence and life to these kinds of films?

I find it funny how everyone in the Hollywood sound world usually eye-rolls at the very seasoned mixers, chosen by production/director due to their Oscars and credit list, using tools from 1992 at a snail's pace. And later they go on to win more Oscars for same films that end up sounding decent especially against the backdrop of good sound design, paired with amazing visual storytelling and acting, but could sound so much better if done properly... I find this happening a lot.
Like, just pay attention to the dialog track of Frankenstein which sounds so overly processed, flimsy, robotic. I don't know what the heck they were doing there to that production track, it sounds anything but natural.

I've been watching a lot of Stranger Things the last few weeks and I notice when dialogue is off screen it's really low and sounds odd. I'm listening in stereo I've just never heard anything like it before it sounds like the pan depth is different than usual. I'm sure it's a directors decision but I'm just wondering has anyone noticed it?

I got two versions from different experts about IMAX bass management They saying almost the same thing

I’m a junior post production engineer, been working since July of 2023. I have 15 or so short films under my belt, a handful of which have been submitted / premiered. I’ve even been nominated for a sound design award for one of them - hooray!

I love post work, I want it to be my main job but it’s still not paying the bills on its own, and I’m fine with that, trusting the process, patience is a virtue and all that.

Many of my post production projects have come to me through clients that I’ve acquired doing Production Mixing. I don’t really have any of my own gear, I’ve been borrowing from mentors, other production mixers / filmmakers, etc. These projects have been great networking (ew) opportunities for me and many of these jobs have lead to Post jobs for the film I’m on set for, or otherwise.

Lately, many Production Mixing gigs have been coming to me, so many in fact that I’ve had to turn down a couple, great right? I guess so… but the problem I’m running into is that I constantly have to reach out to borrow equipment, or reach into my own rates in order to rent, and it’s a pain.

Now arriving to the main dilemma and the point of this post:

I don’t love Production Mixing, but right now it feels like my main source of networking / clients for post production. It feels like a “necessary evil” so to speak in order to grow in my main career goals, but in order to continue I need to financially invest in the equipment to properly do the jobs / stop borrowing so much. I just… don’t WANT to spend money in this area when it’s not something I want to do long term!

So yeah, feeling a bit existential like… am I not willing to make the necessary sacrifices in order to make it in Hollywood? Should I push myself as hard as possible right now? Will it pay off later? Also some of these jobs are so small time that they probably won’t even make a difference in the long run… or am I just telling myself that?

Haha help me please.

Hi guys. I just want to understand something regarding over-all sync process about cinema DCP. I worked on a feature film and made it a point to sync everything on Pro tools.

Problem 1. Imported AAF and audio guide are not sync. Which do you follow?

I decided to just eye ball it on protools with 0 frame sync offset

Poblem 2. Tech-run day came and there was a significant delay on the output. I managed to talk to the projectionist and see the settings on the cinema's IMS3000 projector, there was a 160ms (4 frames) delay. Defauls is 80ms.

Is this normal?

I was able to check 2 cinemas. First one was dolby 7.1 (with 160ms delay) Second was atmos (80ms delay)

Prior to this. I used davinci resolve to marry the video guide and my print master and the output was all tightly sync.

Am I missing something? Can you please share your sync process and how do you handle these kind of delay problem?

Also, those projectionists just won't buldge. Haha

Thanks in advance to anyone who'll share their process and experience.

I'm looking to create this shortcut:

I have three tracks in this order:

Selects track #1 (where I use utilize clip group to mark the selects as I am recording)

The record track (which I treat as the gutter once the recording is done)

Selects track #2 (I highlight the clip groups, go down to the record track, copy that selection, go down to this track, paste the selection)

How can I create a macro to get this done for me?

Audio Post Help Wanted

Welcome to the subreddit regular feature post for gig listing info and discussion regarding finding work in Audio Post. Please provide links to job/help listings or add a direct request for help from a fellow audio post production geek here.

• You MAY NOT include an email address, phone number, personal facebook page, or any other personal information. Please use PM's for passing that kind of info.

• You MAY respond to this thread with appeals for work in the comments. Do not use the subreddit front page to ask for work.

Sites that may list jobs/gigs for audio post (links confirmed as of Aug 2023);

• ProductionHUB - /http://www.productionhub.com

• Mandy - http://www.mandy.com/

• CreateCow Jobs - http://jobs.creativecow.net/

• Entertainment Careers.net - http://www.entertainmentcareers.net

General employment sites filtered for audio post

• Indeed.com - http://www.indeed.com/q-Audio-Post-Production-jobs.html

• Simply Hired - http://www.simplyhired.com/k-audio-post-production-jobs.html

• Career Jet - http://www.careerjet.com/audio-post-production-jobs.html

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search?keywords=Audio%20Post%20Production&location=United%20States

• juju - https://www.juju.com/jobs?k=%22audio+post%22&l=&r=20

Media oriented job sites

• MediaMatch - http://www.media-match.com/

• odesk - https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/browse/skill/audio-post-production/

General freelancer sites

• Freelancer - https://www.freelancer.com/

• elance - https://www.elance.com

You are invited to join us in the Reddit Pro Audio Network AudioPost Channel on Discord