How to export video and sound files in Cubase | |
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Moving image: film; television; web; hand-held devices; video; animation
A soundtrack is a compilation of sounds in accompaniment to footage. It consists of three tracks: the dialogue, the sound effects, and the music. The soundtrack can be used for building emotion, emphasising importance, drawing attention to something, accentuate characterisation and countless more techniques. It provides the audience with further information about something that cannot be captured through the moving image alone, and it captures their attention. The soundtrack is often built up of instruments which can also play in a certain way to match what the audience is seeing on the screen. For example, the soundtrack accompanying a car chase scene in an action movie might be a string orchestra playing loud and high in a very fast tempo. Different types of moving image productions for a soundtrack could be:
- Dramas
- Documentaries
- Cartoons/Animations
- News Reports
- Music Videos
- Adverts
- Films
Audio components: studio and location; interviews; presentation; voiceover; drama dialogue; ambient sound; music; sound effects (SFX); stationary and moving sound sources; use of presence
As a result of this complex arrangement of sound, one needs many skills to create an effective soundtrack that will be successful. For one, a vast understanding of the relationship between image and sound and the technical ways in which they operate. Use of imaginative and creative composition abilities would be needed to create a smooth flow with the moving image, musical abilities with software and equipment knowledge would need to be included to write out a score as well as for other musicians to play, or even the ability to lip-sync voices as an audio file. A professional conduct and practice would be acquired to stand out from others and would need to have good analysis (especially on quality) furthermore decent planning, concentration and listening skills to find out where to excel. Not only technical abilities, but knowledge of legal works such as the Performing Rights Society, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (to ensure created material is protected) and a Public Performance License.
Relationship between sound and picture: diegetic; non-diegetic; external diegetic; mood; meaning; illusion.
What you hear when you watch a film plays a huge role in your experience. Film sound plays an equally important role in film as the image does. Some believe that sound compliments the image in film and others say that sounds can ‘replace’ the visual aspect of film instead of just compliment it.
Music in film is very powerful. We have all seen how music can set a calm, relaxed mood to certain moments, but also greatly intensify moments. We’ve seen the former in the beginning of romantic comedies when the camera pans over the night lights of a city’s skyline and light but romantic jazz music plays in the background. We’ve seen the latter in thriller movies when one of the characters is about to be killed and a string orchestra plays high pitched screeching music. The placement of the music is very important for what it is trying to portray in relationship with the image.
A soundtrack is a compilation of sounds in accompaniment to footage. It consists of three tracks: the dialogue, the sound effects, and the music. The soundtrack can be used for building emotion, emphasising importance, drawing attention to something, accentuate characterisation and countless more techniques. It provides the audience with further information about something that cannot be captured through the moving image alone, and it captures their attention. The soundtrack is often built up of instruments which can also play in a certain way to match what the audience is seeing on the screen. For example, the soundtrack accompanying a car chase scene in an action movie might be a string orchestra playing loud and high in a very fast tempo. Different types of moving image productions for a soundtrack could be:
- Dramas
- Documentaries
- Cartoons/Animations
- News Reports
- Music Videos
- Adverts
- Films
Audio components: studio and location; interviews; presentation; voiceover; drama dialogue; ambient sound; music; sound effects (SFX); stationary and moving sound sources; use of presence
As a result of this complex arrangement of sound, one needs many skills to create an effective soundtrack that will be successful. For one, a vast understanding of the relationship between image and sound and the technical ways in which they operate. Use of imaginative and creative composition abilities would be needed to create a smooth flow with the moving image, musical abilities with software and equipment knowledge would need to be included to write out a score as well as for other musicians to play, or even the ability to lip-sync voices as an audio file. A professional conduct and practice would be acquired to stand out from others and would need to have good analysis (especially on quality) furthermore decent planning, concentration and listening skills to find out where to excel. Not only technical abilities, but knowledge of legal works such as the Performing Rights Society, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (to ensure created material is protected) and a Public Performance License.
Relationship between sound and picture: diegetic; non-diegetic; external diegetic; mood; meaning; illusion.
What you hear when you watch a film plays a huge role in your experience. Film sound plays an equally important role in film as the image does. Some believe that sound compliments the image in film and others say that sounds can ‘replace’ the visual aspect of film instead of just compliment it.
Music in film is very powerful. We have all seen how music can set a calm, relaxed mood to certain moments, but also greatly intensify moments. We’ve seen the former in the beginning of romantic comedies when the camera pans over the night lights of a city’s skyline and light but romantic jazz music plays in the background. We’ve seen the latter in thriller movies when one of the characters is about to be killed and a string orchestra plays high pitched screeching music. The placement of the music is very important for what it is trying to portray in relationship with the image.
My Video Diary: Analysis of Sound in Film, was removed by YouTube because it specifically analyses excerpts from films, so it breaches Copyright. I have handed in a copy of the original video file instead.
Purely because it captures my own interest, here's a video showing some foley artists at work: