Film sound production Film sound production Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England, is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock bands The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Pink Floyd and The Shadows. The studios are located in Abbey Road, in St John's Wood in the City of Westminster. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abbey Road Studios"
The Academy Award of Merit for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound editing or sound design. The award is usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, perhaps accompanied by the Sound Designers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Academy Award for Sound Editing"
Anempathetic sound in a film is the opposite of empathetic sound: sound—music or sound effects—that seems to exhibit a conspicuous indifference to what is going on in a film's plot, possibly thereby enhancing a sense of the tragic, as when a radio continues to play a happy tune when a character dies, or in Hitchcock's Psycho the continued sound of the shower running, as if nothing had happened. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anempathetic sound"
A click track is a series of audio cues used to synchronize sound recordings to a moving image. ...more on Wikipedia about "Click track"
Deep Note is the name of THX's audio logo, a distinctive synthesized crescendo sound. It was created by Dr. James "Andy" Moorer in 1982, then an employee of the Lucasfilm Computer Division. The sound is used on trailers for THX-certified movie theatres and video releases. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deep Note"
DTS (formerly known as Digital Theater Systems) is a multi-channel surround sound format used for both commercial/theatrical and consumer grade applications (with significant technical differences between home and commercial/theatrical variants: the latter being a traditional ADPCM compression system and the former a sophisticated hybrid perceptual and signal-redundancy compressor). It is used for in-movie sound both on film and on DVD, and during the last few years of the format's existence, several Laserdisc releases had DTS soundtracks. The company which created it, Digital Theater Systems, is now referred to simply as DTS. One of the company's initial investors was film director Steven Spielberg, who felt that theatrical sound formats up until the company's founding were no longer state of the art, and as a result were no longer optimal for use on projects where quality sound reproduction was of the utmost importance. Work on the format started in 1991, four years after Dolby Labs started work on their new codec, Dolby Digital. The basic and most common version of the format is a 5.1 channel system, supporting five primary speakers and a subwoofer, referred to as an LFE (Low Frequency Effects) channel. Note however that encoders and decoders support numerous channel combinations and stereo, four-channel and four-channel+LFE soundtracks have been released commercially on DVD, CD and LaserDisc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital Theatre System"
Dolby Analog SR or Dolby SR format (Spectral Recording), was ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby Analog SR"
Dolby Digital is the trademarked marketing name for Dolby Laboratories' " lossy" AC-3 codec. The common version contains six total channels of sound, with 5 channels for normal-range speakers (Right front, Center, Left Front, Right Rear and Left Rear) and one channel for the LFE, or subwoofer. The Dolby Digital format supports Mono and Stereo usages as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby Digital"
Dolby Digital Plus, (DD+), was developed specifically for the introduction of HDTV and HD-DVD/ Blu-ray discs. The codec supports coded-bitstream rates up to 6.144 Mbit/s, compared to 640 Kbit/s for the original Dolby Digital AC-3. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby Digital Plus"
::Dolby redirects here. "Dolby" may also refer to the engineer Ray Dolby or the musician Thomas Dolby ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby Laboratories"
Dolby Pro Logic is a surround sound processing technology designed to decode soundtracks encoded with Dolby Surround. Dolby Surround was originally developed by Dolby Laboratories in 1976 for analog cinema sound systems as Dolby Analog SR (Spectral Recording). The Analog SR format was adapted for home use in 1986 as Dolby Surround which was then replaced by the newer and improved Pro Logic system. However, the term "Dolby Surround" is still used to describe the encoding technology or matrix-encoded soundtrack, whereas Pro Logic refers to the decoding technology/processor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby Pro Logic"
Dolby Stereo (or Dolby Analog) was the original analog optical technology developed by Dolby Laboratories for 35 mm prints in 1976. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby Stereo"
Dolby Surround was the earliest consumer version of Dolby's multichannel analog film sound format Dolby Analog SR (Spectral Recording). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby Surround"
The Dolby Digital vs DTS debate remains a long standing, insoluble debate among home theater enthusiasts and " Audiophiles" on the internet (via arenas such as usenet groups) and elsewhere. Debators compare the two audio codecs, Dolby Digital and DTS, arguing that one or the other 'sounds' or 'is' inherently better, yet consensus is rarely reached. This is a home theater forum equivalent subject for Godwin's Law. It is unlikely a consensus will ever be reached, due to the inherent difference in volume (DTS is naturally louder than Dolby Digital) preventing accurate comparison. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dolby vs DTS" http://www.shortopedia.com - Xtending Info. Film_sound_production
Empathetic sound in a film is sound—music or sound effects—whose mood matches the mood of the present action or scene, such as a sad song playing during a depressing or upsetting scene. The opposite of empathetic sound is anempathetic sound. ...more on Wikipedia about "Empathetic sound"
SDDS stands for Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, which is a cinema sound system developed by Sony. Digital sound information is recorded on both outer edges of the 35mm film release print. The system supports up to 8 independent channels of sound: 5 front channels, 2 surround channels and a sub-bass channel. This arrangement is similar to 70 mm magnetic sound formats - and is useful mainly for very cinema large screens. Smaller cinemas normally only have 3 screen channels - in which case the soundtrack is downmixed. ...more on Wikipedia about "SDDS"
Skywalker Sound is the renowned sound effects, sound editorial, sound design and music recording division of George Lucas's Lucas Digital motion picture group. Its main facilities are located in Lucas Valley, near Nicasio, California. It began as Sprocket Systems in San Anselmo, California and changed names soon after The Empire Strikes Back. Sprocket moved from San Anselmo following a disasterous flood in January of 1982. During the sound recording of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harrison Ford could be spied practicing his bullwhip technique in the parking lot. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Skywalker Sound"
Sound design is a technical/conceptually creative field. It covers all non-compositional elements of a film, a play, computer game software or any other multimedia project. A person who practices the art of sound design is known as a Sound Designer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sound design"
A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound mixing or mastering of a television program or motion picture. Sound editing developed out of the need to fix the incomplete, undramatic, or technically inferior sound recordings of early talkies, and over the decades has become a respected filmmaking craft, with sound editors implementing the aesthetic goals of motion picture sound design. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sound editor"
Surround sound is the concept of expanding the spatial imaging of audio playback from one dimension (mono/Left-Right) to two or three dimensions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Surround sound"
THX is the trade name of a high-fidelity sound reproduction system for theatrical movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems. THX was developed by George Lucas's company Lucasfilm in 1983 to ensure that the soundtrack for the third Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, would be accurately reproduced in the best venues. ...more on Wikipedia about "THX" My http://www.shortopedia.com is mine.
Tregoweth "Treg" Brown ( November 4, 1899–April 1984) was a motion picture sound editor who was responsible for the sound effects in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons starting in 1934. He also won the 1965 Academy Award for Sound Effects for his work on the film The Great Race. ...more on Wikipedia about "Treg Brown"
Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Brothers and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Many early talkies, such as The Jazz Singer, used the Vitaphone process. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the so-called sound-on-disc processes. With improvements in competing sound-on-film processes, Vitaphone's technical imperfections led to its retirement early in the sound era. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vitaphone"
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