Sounds are childish. They are innocent, full of energy, and wholly influenced by their surroundings. When listening back to any recorded sound, we hear the ambience, the proximity to the subject, the ...
January 4, 2021
Since its creation just over two years ago, the Academy Software Foundation has provided a neutral forum for open source software developers in the film industry to share resources and collaborate on ...
December 23, 2020
This year in our industry, we’ve been handed the opportunity to completely restructure the way we do things. This has fostered some incredible innovation across the various artistic, technical and bus ...
Like many other creative professionals working in film and television, I’m acutely aware of, and have accepted, the high demands and expectations our industry imposes on us. I’ve been practicing this ...
The shift from tape to digital may have paved the way for new filmmaking approaches, but it took some time for creators and toolmakers to capitalize on the opportunities that the format shift unlocked ...
In the past, the process of producing creative work in a remote, work-from-home environment might have felt a bit like playing the kids game of Consequences, where players each draw the head, shoulder ...
December 22, 2020
As developers, parents and teachers, we engage daily with audio professionals, musicians and students who have transitioned to collaborating and learning online, which in so many ways is lacking. We a ...
For decades, live events have served as the centerpiece of almost every business sector. COVID-19 has forced business leaders around the world to quickly and dramatically restructure their live events ...
December 21, 2020
2020 will go down in history as the year that changed the way the world worked — whether temporarily or permanently remains to be seen, but all signs point toward the latter. Industries, businesses an ...
In the dawn of nonlinear editing (historians speak of this time), every workday was accompanied by a lingering fear that at any given moment, the editing computer was going to bug out on you. Not the ...