Category Archives: Post Production

File Management: leave it to a dedicated professional

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Daniel

File management? File Management! Holy CRAP! FILE MANAGEMENT! As a freelance editor moving across multiple different houses I often encounter chaotic, disorganized and unintelligible file systems for saving documents, media assets, graphics and projects. “Esoteric” is not a good word … Continue reading →

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Elimiate breath sounds in voiceover audio with this filter

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Daniel

When you’re cutting clean, well-recorded and professional VOs where the breaths are real loud and clear you can usually use the expander filter to pot out low-volume breath sounds instead of cutting them out manually. Set the threshold at the … Continue reading →

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Best UPLOAD specs for youtube

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Daniel

for HD: 1280×720 or 1080×1920 “movie to quicktime movie” (.mov) or “movie to MPEG-4″ (.mp4) codec: h.264 Data rate: 13,000 kbits/sec (you can also use like 1/2 this rate, but youtube will uprez it to 13,0000) frame rate: native to … Continue reading →

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Avoid typos in your videos with this little tip

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Daniel

It’s a fact: video production titling, lower thirds and even full graphic introductions are harder to spell check than newspapers and books because usually there’s a lot more to be distracted with on screen, and we get lazy. Nobody wants to … Continue reading →

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