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Table Of Contents
 SFX Movie Pick
SmartSound Partners With Avid
Liquid
Opus 1 Brings the DMA Online
Forget Oranges: This Florida
Product
Is Digital Juice
Dialogue for Animation
What's New
SFX Movie Pick
Chances are if you're a Harry Potter fan, you're
already planning to see the latest film installment in the series,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, directed with panache by
Mike Newell. (And if you're not a fan, you probably won't climb onboard
the Hogwart's Express with this fourth installment—it'd be a steep
learning curve!) Not only is it perhaps the most exciting and
well-crafted Potter film yet, it also contains what I think are
some of the most creative SFX of any film released so far this year.
Blending all sorts of interesting natural and electronically enhanced
sounds, the soundtrack is as integral an element in the creation of
Potter's magical universe at the state-of-the-art CGI visual FX.
Kudos to Oscar-winning sound designer and supervising sound editor
Randy
Thom, co-SSE Dennis Leonard, and their large and capable sound crew on
a
fine job. I hope to have more on some specifics of the FX in a future
edition of The Sampler.
Industry News
SmartSound Partners With Avid
Liquid
As we noted in our Sampler feature about SmartSound
(Northridge,
Calif.) several months ago, one reason the royalty-free music provider
has grown so quickly the last few years is that is has successfully
partnered with a number of different companies to get its software
directly into the hands of the producers, engineers, and editors mostly
likely to use its product. Certainly one of the most fruitful of those
partnerships has been with Tewksbury, Mass.-based Avid Technology, maker
of
industry-standard video editing and media storage systems, among other
things. The latest wrinkle in that relationship is the embedding of
SmartSound technology into Avid Liquid's nonlinear editing hardware and
software (originally developed by Pinnacle Systems). more >>
Opus 1 Brings the DMA
Online
In another exciting development for a Sampler
feature alumnus (Dec. 22, 2004), Opus 1 Music
Library, whose proprietary DMA (Digital Music Assistant) palm-sized
external hard-drive music search and delivery system has drawn raves
from the company's many clients, has just unleashed an online version
of
that exceptional tool, which is certain to expand its already sizable
base of users. more >>
Inside Info
Forget Oranges: This Florida
Product Is Digital Juice
The first day I called over to Digital
Juice, located in Ocala, Fla., a hurricane was bearing down on the
state from the Gulf of Mexico and it was unclear if its path of
devastation would sweep across Marion County in the north-central part
of the state. In the end, Ocala was whipped by high winds and
torrential
downpours, but that's par for the course in Florida in the early
autumn,
and business at Digital Juice proceeded apace. Of course, if the folks
at Digital Juice were resourceful, they might have pointed a microphone
out the window of their offices to capture some of the hurricane for
their next SFX collection. more >>
Case Study
 Dialogue for Animation
By Maureen Droney
On Family Guy, Fox's animated series popular for
its cutting-edge humor, dialogue reigns supreme. The show avoids audio
effects altogether whenever a character speaks. That priority is not
lost on the crew that records and edits dialogue for the show (along
with sister production American Dad). But while maintaining
quality, the crew also has to work quickly. In fact, the same directive
even applied to setting up the studios at Fox Animation suites. Set in
the middle of an office building with an open floor plan, the studios
consist of modular, solid-looking prefab booths. more>>
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