In
this Issue: |
| CV's Anniversary 5th Sale
and UK launch!.......something for everyone!!! |
| Producer's Corner..........Audio
Formats, why, what, how..........Bruce Valeriani |
| Equipping your Home Studio.............Studio
space, equipment and more by Peter Drew |
| Let's Link up............improve
your web site rank. |
| Are you Vanilla?
...........Everybody doesn't like Vanilla |
| Web site
Tips...............from Glen McInnis |
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| CV's
5th Anniversary Sale & UK web site launch
This
year our September Anniversary sale is a big one, the biggest yet!
Whew! 5 years and still going and growing. We've tried to include
something for everyone here and have also expanded our universe
with the addition of our UK web site. Membership is restricted to
UK based VO businesses or displaced UK VO talents who are working
outside their respective countries. Click here
for all the info.
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| Harlan Hogan's
new book "Voice Actor's Guide to Home Recording"
is now on sale at Amazon.com
and Harlan Hogan.com |
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Producer's
Corner..
AUDIO
FILE FORMATS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
I know, I know - for
this month's Producer's Corner I promised to discuss mic preamps.
I'm going to defer that discussion to next month in favour of
providing some details on audio file formats and their impact
on sound quality. This is particularly relevant since I am celebrating
the launch of the UK site by sponsoring Rick with some production
time as a prize, and the audio files that people may send can
have a huge impact on the overall quality of the production....More
Bruce Valeriani
Bruce
Valeriani
owns and operates Blue
Bear Sound in Ottawa, Canada, accommodating all your
recording needs - whether it's audio, video, and/or multimedia.
For more information on recording, check out the Articles
page on the studio web site... or for professional production
of your demo at extremely reasonable Canadian prices,
contact Bruce at 613-822-0726 or by email at info@bluebearsound.com.
Blue Bear Sound Recording Studios "Putting
the sound back into recording!"
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Equipping
Your Home Voiceover Studio
By Peter Drew To
make a living, voice over talents used to have to physically go
to gigs recorded in commercial production facilities. Now, gigs
can come to them-in home studios and through the Internet. But for
many voice over talents, newbie and old pro alike, outfitting a
home studio is technically baffling. So, how do you make that spare
bedroom or corner of your studio apartment (no pun intended) into
a functional voice over facility, with decent acoustics and the
appropriate equipment? Let's take a look at the basics involved
in setting up a home voiceover studio.
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| Peter
Drew,
a card-carrying member of the Commercial Voices cadre, provides
voice overs for all electronic media. Have a comment about this
article? Please visit Peter
Drew Voiceovers and drop him a line via email. While you're
there, check out Peter's demos and additional articles on the
voice-over business. |
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Improve
your web site rank......
With all the hoop la about web site optimization and multi
tune ups that are supposed to help us in our web site ranking
in Search Engines one tip seems to remain constant. The more quality
reciprocal links you have, the better. This is your invitation
to link up with CV and we will do the same with your site. The
only criteria is that it be somehow related to the VO industry.
Whether you are a VO talent, writer, producer, musician, ad agency
or production house, come along for the ride with CV. Click
here send us your link request. You can check
out our current links by clicking on "Links" at the
top of this page. Choose from a selection of links to us here.
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Vanilla
anyone?
Everybody doesn’t like Vanilla
So producers and clients have visited your web pages, listened
to your demos and you have heard nothing from them. Why did they
not contact you for a custom demo and/or a quote on their project?
Was it because you are not good? Was it because they were just curious?
Or, was it because you were the wrong flavour? Yes! There was nothing
wrong with your demos at all, you sound great and most important
they will remember that. They will save you in their favourites
or pass along your URL to other colleagues, which is more promotion,
and when they need your flavour they will contact you, or someone
will.
Maybe they were just collecting all the chocolate flavours they
could to pass along to their production department. Maybe tomorrow
they will want you, vanilla. The point is don’t give up. No
matter how good you are you will not get all the recording projects
out there. That is one great aspect of our CV members, we all know
we aren’t available in all flavours.
Check this out, this was found in a Newsgroup alt.tv.voice-artists.
Be forewarned it is graphical but you will be truly amazed by this
inspirational story. VO
Horror Story
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Web
site Tips
Making Narrated Presentations available on the Internet Using
Flash It has become a fairly common practice for corporations
to use narrated PowerPoint presentations for sales, training and
many other functions. One of the most difficult problems is getting
those presentations out to the audience without requiring them to
have specific version of Microsoft Office and audio-playback software.
To get an idea of what I mean, take a look at the following sample
slide used as part of an online course: http://www.crystalbaymedia.com/sampleslide.html
This slide was created using the built in animation and sound playback
tools of PowerPoint 2003 and then converted to Flash using a product
called PowerConverter.
For more information on PowerPoint’s animation features please
refer to PowerPoint’s online help topics “Adding Sound,
Music, Video and Voice”, “Animating Text and Objects”,
“Setting Timing and Transitions”.
The basic steps to creating a narrated presentation for the web
are:
1. Create your presentation as normal using PowerPoint
2. Add animations and voice using PowerPoint’s animation and
sound functions
3. Convert the PowerPoint file using a converter product like PowerConverter
or Impatica.
More information and a free trial of PowerConverter can be found
at: http://www.presentationpro.com/products/PowerCONVERTER.asp
More information and a free trial of Impatica for PowerPoint can
be found at:
http://www.impatica.com/imp4ppt/
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you have a topic you would like to see addressed in the monthly
tip? Email your question or idea to info@crystalbaymedia.com
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www.crystalbaymedia.com
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McInnis
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