One of the current darlings of the streaming set is Instagram with its Reels option. As both these and the other player TikTok use resolutions not generally native to video – vertical orientation as against landscape – there needs to be some steps made when creating video for these platforms...
Major Colour Correction Updates to Vegas 20. And a bit more too
VEGAS Creative Software (www.vegascreativesoftware.com) today announced a substantial free update to its flagship VEGAS Pro 20 product line. In addition to a continued focus on stability improvements, with this update, the VEGAS Pro development team adds a number of new features to further enhance colour grading workflow power, efficiencies and...
New Vegas Pro 20
VEGAS Creative Software (www.vegascreativesoftware.com) announced today a significant leap forward for its flagship VEGAS Pro product line with the launch of VEGAS Pro 20. With this update, VEGAS Creative Software adds a number of new features to further strengthen advanced collaboration workflows. There are also a number of new features...
Exploring Vegas Pro 20: Hue Colour Curves
Our resident Vegas Pro expert, Dr David Smith, has been exploring the new Vegas Pro 20. Here is the first of a number of articles, this one having a look at playing around with colour curves I am thoroughly enjoying exploring the many new features in Vegas Pro 20. One...
Audio Sweetening: A Quick Crash Course
No matter how good your microphone, there will always be a time and a place where you’ll need to “sweeten up” some recorded audio. A good mic such as the Sennheiser MKE400 will give far better audio than a cheapie any day and is worth the investment. It might be rogue...
New Plug to Record iPhone and Android Wireless Microphone: Hollyland’s Lark C1
Hollyland Technology has announced the Lark C1, an ultra-compact, feature-packed wireless microphone system that can be plugged into mobile phones and offers a range of up to 650ft (200m). The Lark C1 lets you simply plug the receiver into the phone to record audio, and playback without unplugging. You can record...
Review: Acon Digital Extract:Dialogue Plugin
by Dr David Smith Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networking revolutionise audio noise reduction As a documentary maker I frequently have to film people sharing their stories in situations that are less than ideal. There are numerous situations where you have no choice but to continue recording even though there is...
Music Creation / Libraries. An overview of Smartsound Sonicfire 6
Just recently, the hoary old problem of music use in videos popped up again. It’s one of those things that surfaces from time to time, mainly by people asking about the legality of using commercial music in their videos for their own use. So at the start, let’s get one...
Audio Problem? Have a look at MAGIX SpectraLayers… it’s a little different …
Dr David Smith (left) had an audio problem that looked, whilst not insurmountable, as if it would take a LOT of work to resolve. Instead he took to SpectraLayers, an audio editor from MAGIX that is just a little bit different. You can download a trial version of SpectraLayers at https://www.magix.com/au/music/spectralayers/...
Review: PreSonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation
Review by Graeme Hague The holy grail of Digital Audio Workstations has always been a single program that can do everything you need. That may seem obvious, but it’s not as easy to find as you might expect. During the early years of DAW releases, different developers chose to focus...