If you get the chance, go see African Cats. Beautifully shot film. Here's a spot for which I narrated the intro and out.
Final Cut Pro X
Oh baby. Yesterday, Apple debuted Final Cut Pro X - the first complete revamp since the app was released in 2011. In addition to voiceover, I'm also an editor, and I'm on Final Cut Pro all day every day. I even clean up most of my auditions in Final Cut, because I'm faster with it than I am with Sound Track Pro and Pro Tools, the two audio apps I use.
Here's what it looks like:
I'll skip the fluff and get to the highlights:
• Runs in 64 bit and can use all of your RAM and all of your cores. Holy cow.
• New interface! I've been SOOOO bored of the old one.
• Improved media management.
• Background rendering! Supposedly, you can keep working while its rendering and the system won't slow down.
• Auditioning - try out an edit without messing up your timeline.
• Mix and match formats. Baby.
• Image stabilization, media detection, people detection and shot detection on ingest. Sounds iMovie-ish - but if it works, people detection could be huge! It takes me two days to do a full break down of a movie (ie, find and label every time Jack Sparrow appears in a shot in Pirates 4).
• Add keywords to clips instead of subclipping to organize.
• Keep working while importing!
• Auto color correction and color matching.
• Magnetic Timeline - audio/video stays in sync.
• Automatic audio clean up. I have my doubts... but anxious to try it.
• Inline precision editing - you can see handles.
• Auto syncing waveforms.
• Localized adjustments - choose one thing to tweak in a shot.
• $299! Holy crap that's inexpensive.
I will likely buy it the day it comes out. I'm giddy as a school girl.
Here's what it looks like:
I'll skip the fluff and get to the highlights:
• Runs in 64 bit and can use all of your RAM and all of your cores. Holy cow.
• New interface! I've been SOOOO bored of the old one.
• Improved media management.
• Background rendering! Supposedly, you can keep working while its rendering and the system won't slow down.
• Auditioning - try out an edit without messing up your timeline.
• Mix and match formats. Baby.
• Image stabilization, media detection, people detection and shot detection on ingest. Sounds iMovie-ish - but if it works, people detection could be huge! It takes me two days to do a full break down of a movie (ie, find and label every time Jack Sparrow appears in a shot in Pirates 4).
• Add keywords to clips instead of subclipping to organize.
• Keep working while importing!
• Auto color correction and color matching.
• Magnetic Timeline - audio/video stays in sync.
• Automatic audio clean up. I have my doubts... but anxious to try it.
• Inline precision editing - you can see handles.
• Auto syncing waveforms.
• Localized adjustments - choose one thing to tweak in a shot.
• $299! Holy crap that's inexpensive.
I will likely buy it the day it comes out. I'm giddy as a school girl.
Which Mic is Right for YOU?
It may not be the one you think. Just ran across this article which gives some great advice!
http://www.procommvoices.com/wordpress/choosing-a-voice-over-microphone/comment-page-1#comment-5762
http://www.procommvoices.com/wordpress/choosing-a-voice-over-microphone/comment-page-1#comment-5762
Getting Into Voiceover?
This might be a place to start: Terri Apple, one of the top female voice talents in the industry released another book last month and from what I've seen, it looks great. After I read it, I'll give you a review.
Voiceovers: Everything You Need to Know About How to Make Money With Your Voice
60 Milliseconds of Face Time
A few years ago, I appeared on national TV for a fraction of a second. Can you spot me?
This commercial makes it clear why my face was never again seen on the public airwaves...
Trevor on TV
This commercial makes it clear why my face was never again seen on the public airwaves...
Trevor on TV
Exciting Blogger Updates!
Maybe its because I'm a tech nerd, but I got all giddy n such when I saw some fresh blogger news.
Dynamic Views!
This lets your readers see your site in 5 NEW different views. Here is the "Snapshot" view:
How do you do it? Just add "/view" to the end of the blog URL - Try it out!
http://www.trevorjonesvo.blogspot.com/view
The requirements are these:
1. It must be a public blog.
2. Feeds must be fully enabled (Settings/Site feed tab)
3. You haven't disabled dynamic views in settings - its on by default.
I've found that you want to use Firefox if you're on a mac - was pretty glitchy in Safari.
Here's a link for more info:
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1227173
Trevor
Dynamic Views!
This lets your readers see your site in 5 NEW different views. Here is the "Snapshot" view:
How do you do it? Just add "/view" to the end of the blog URL - Try it out!
http://www.trevorjonesvo.blogspot.com/view
The requirements are these:
1. It must be a public blog.
2. Feeds must be fully enabled (Settings/Site feed tab)
3. You haven't disabled dynamic views in settings - its on by default.
I've found that you want to use Firefox if you're on a mac - was pretty glitchy in Safari.
Here's a link for more info:
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1227173
Trevor
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