These videos from creative labs look at the implementation of audio in the Unreal 3 engine.
The UT2004 was pretty weak in terms of sound in it's basic incarnation (although many developer extended this significantly for their own games) so I'm looking forward to seeing what they've come up with.
This site covers sound and music for games, sound for film, music for film, and other interactive audio and audio-visual based stuff.
The Game Audio Tutorial
You might also be looking our old book : "The Game Audio Tutorial", or new book : Game Audio Implementation.
Main Links
- 'Game Sound Design' links page.
- 'Game Music' links page.
- 'Film Music' links page.
- 'Film Sound and Sound Design' links page.
- Books, Journals, and Conferences
- Conference and Research Notes
- DVD's with Sound / Music commentaries or documentaries
- Play, Performance, Composition - Integrated Approaches
- The 'MSc.Sound and Music for Interactive Games' at Leeds Beckett University
Film music links
See also 'Film Music' Section here
Music for the movies : Bernard Herrmann
Music for the movies : The Hollywood sound
Randy Newman Interview
Hans Zimmer
John Williams
List of leitmotifs
Elfman style
Senior VP for music universial picturtes
Michael Kamen on Robin Hood
Bobby Johnson
The incredibles scoring
John Williams – Saving private ryan
Jerry goldsmith
Lots of movie composer interviews
General intro
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Film_score
The Process of Film Scoring with Richard Davies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLdg5MU7sgk&feature=youtube_gdata
The Process of Film Scoring with Richard Davies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLdg5MU7sgk&feature=youtube_gdata
Orchestration and Instrumentation
Italian Terms used in Music (See Dynamics, and Techniques Sections).
Interesting little documentary about Marco Baltrami's score for 3:10 to yuma particaularly his imaginative use of instrumentation, no doubt inspired by his mentor Ennio Morricone. Mix Magazine interview with Ennio Morricone.Italian Terms used in Music (See Dynamics, and Techniques Sections).
Midi Orchestration
Scoring March of the Dinosaurs
From Mockup to Orchestration
Sample libraries
Kontakt
Kontakt 4 Orchestral Library Info
Syncing
Cue excel sheet calculator http://www.richardbrice.net/cue_calc.htm
Cubase tutorial video files
Kontakt 4 Orchestral Library Info
Syncing
Cue excel sheet calculator http://www.richardbrice.net/cue_calc.htm
Cubase tutorial video files
http://www.steinbergusers.com/cubase/cubase_vguides.php
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul10/articles/cubasetech_0710.htm
Marker Tracks and Timewarp Tutorial
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul10/articles/cubasetech_0710.htm
Marker Tracks and Timewarp Tutorial
Sound on sound articles
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec05/articles/cubasenotes.htm
Logic tutorial video files
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep10/articles/logic-0910.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul07/articles/logictech_0707.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY62_fbwkTc&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL265AC51F7AC1B1B5
Working with Video Tips
Extracting DVD to vob files (PC)Logic tutorial video files
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep10/articles/logic-0910.htm
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul07/articles/logictech_0707.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY62_fbwkTc&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL265AC51F7AC1B1B5
Working with Video Tips
Dvdfab http://www.dvdfab.com/download.htm
Dvdshrink http://www.dvdshrink.org/
Dvd decryptor http://www.mrbass.org/dvdrip/
Extracting DVD to mov or avi (Mac)
Handbrake http://handbrake.fr/
Converting vob (or all) to avi / mov etc
MPEG streamclip http://www.squared5.com/
Compressing your video to a manageable size (or changing Compression Codec)
Download Virtualdub http://www.virtualdub.org/
Run Virtualdub.exe and File / Open video file.
Choose ‘Video / Compression’ (ctrl + p)
Recommend DivX or Xvid (or any other of your choice).
Then ‘File / Save as avi’
Alternatively :
Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Online video conversion http://vixy.net/, http://www.mediaconverter.org/
Identifying video codecs
GSpot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Rendering to video
If your DAW won't allow you to render the audio and video out together as a video file then export your music as a stereo Wav before using one of the methods below to add it to your video.
- For Cubase File / Export / Audio Mixdown, then File / Replace Audio in Video File.
- Both iMovie and Windows Movie Maker will allow you to add your soundtrack to the video.
- For Cubase File / Export / Audio Mixdown, then File / Replace Audio in Video File.
- Both iMovie and Windows Movie Maker will allow you to add your soundtrack to the video.
- In Adobe Audition you can insert
your video into the Multitrack view, then add your wav, and
then export the movie.
- In Virtualdub - open movie then choose ‘Audio’ / ‘Wav audio’ and add your track. Then ‘Save as avi’.
- In Virtualdub - open movie then choose ‘Audio’ / ‘Wav audio’ and add your track. Then ‘Save as avi’.
Don’t forget to check to compression on
your final video !
See above - Compressing your video to a manageable size.
See above - Compressing your video to a manageable size.
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