Comments for Ian Palmer's Post-Production Sound Blog

Comment on Remote Working by huddsounds

huddsounds — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:56:15 +0000

A great insight into remote working Ian – something which I do myself, as you know.
Am going to check out Slingbox too – thanks Steve.

Comment on Remote Working by Steve Urban

Steve Urban — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:33:43 +0000

True, a video card would be a requirement.

Comment on Remote Working by ianjpalmer

ianjpalmer — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:04:58 +0000

Hi Steve. You reminded me that they were testing Slingbox out just as I left my last employer. It looked really tasty actually. Sadly my current setup would need a video card like a FW Canopus to get a video output from PT as I just use the video window in my second monitor. It’d be good if Source Elements were able to route the video along with the audio out of ProTools.

Comment on Remote Working by Steve Urban

Steve Urban — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:11:17 +0000

Ian, have you checked out the slingbox? Feed it stereo audio and component/composite/s-video and it’ll stream to a private site you can direct your clients to. At £130 it may be a reasonable alternative to SourceConnect. We’ve been looking into it ourselves to eliminate approval downtime, but haven’t picked one up just yet. http://uk.slingbox.com/go/slingbox-solo-connections

Comment on Workflows – how I mix by ianjpalmer

ianjpalmer — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:16:47 +0000

Cheers for your kind words guys.

Alex – good idea for my next week’s 2 hour trip to Starbucks.

Comment on Workflows – how I mix by James Bryant

James Bryant — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:07:29 +0000

Thanks Ian, always good to read about people’s workflows.

Comment on Workflows – how I mix by Alex

Alex — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:45:36 +0000

Enjoyed your post Ian. Perhaps you could talk about broadcast specs at some stage, although these do differ. But things such as level expectations, compression, limiting, etc.

Comment on Workflows and organisation by Workflows – how I mix (part 2) | Ian Palmer's Post-Production Sound Blog

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:06:01 +0000

[...] thought I’d continue from my previous post about post production sound workflows. I used to work for a large company as a mixer. [...]

Comment on Professionals and Equipment by huddsounds

huddsounds — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:17:15 +0000

Hi Ian,
An interesting article indeed and it underlines that experience and understanding of the equipment you have rather than the amount/spec of the equipment you have is the most important aspect for a creative. Sure some clients will just want to see fancy premises and a huge mixing console but when it comes down to it can the job be done properly in a timely and well communicated manner.

I routinely prepare jobs at home and then bring them into our (very modest) studio but I know my monitoring and it’s setup to make sure that what I deliver from home or studio is going to playback well on the intended exhibition system. In fact it’s one of the first questions I ask the client – what’s the delivery format(s)?

Finally the excitement of mixing a film in a smaller room and then taking it a large cinema for exhibition is always one to savour!

There’s no doubt that budgets are diminishing, but standards must still be maintained and expected so if overheads can be bought down as low as possible then so be it, even if that means working ‘professionally’ from home.

Comment on Professionals and Equipment by Varun Nair (@ntkeep)

Varun Nair (@ntkeep) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:43:06 +0000

Things surely do seem to be heading in this direction. And I think it’s also up to us to educate clients and future/younger sound people that it is not just the gear but the experience and knowing the limitations (and advantages) of gear that makes the difference.

On a personal note I prefer working in a dedicated space – for the viibe, for being around fellow sound people and having a separate work and home space.

That said, I have done enough number of ‘budget’ projects on my old mac book and the newer MacBookPro.