Voice-Acting in Vegas
Man oh man, I loved listening to this!
VO pro and pal Dave Deandrea posts the following video on YouTube: Axe Cop, Bad Guy Earth Trailer
The artwork is sensational, the writing very cheeky, and the voices!….oh yeah, the voices!…done by some of the best: Bob Souer, Rowell Gormon, John Taylor, Dave DeAndrea, Sam Mowry, Mark Irwin, and Herb Merriweather.
It’s just over 2 minutes. You have two minutes doncha?
Very nicely done Dave!
CourVO
Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth Trailer
VO pro and friend Donovan Corneetz brands himself as “The Voice of Cool”.
It really works for him, and his VO career, which got started at about the same time as mine on the VO-BB is taking off in all sorts of productive directions.
But the video below is not would you would think of as the mystique of “cool”. Instead, it’s a story of someone else’s success…millions of miles away. Donovan says about this video he voiced: “In Cambodia a local NGO -called CDMD- strives for an inclusive, barrier-free and rights-based society for people with disabilities. Active in five provinces, they reach almost four million Cambodians. Of whom more than 180,000 have a disability. These are four wonderful stories of success.”
While watching, take a listen to Donovan’s smooth take on this copy.
Nicely done, Donovan!
CourVO
CDMD – Everyone Matters – Original video
Grats to my social media partner and VO pro Terry Daniel for directing me to the following video posted on his VoiceOver Club site.
Fellow Voice Actor Mike Elmore makes an easy-to-follow explanation about watermarking your auditions.
Also, be watching for an upcoming podcast on the Voices.com Expert Series regarding Social Media. Recording it with Terry Daniel today!
CourVO
Rain Computers and I have had a long, mutually-beneficial relationship. According to their website: “…Rain Computers designs audio and video computers, tested and certified for use with your creative software and hardware.”
Over the years, I’ve written a number of articles for them, mostly on VO topics.
Recently, though, they asked me to build on a theme I’ve railed about before: needlessly rotten webcam videos.
The result is an article called “Take Charge of Your Video” featured in their latest newsletter, and on their website.
As the article mentions, this augments the information I’ve supplied on this topic on my site: OnCamTips.com. Check it out, and let me know if it helps, or if you have additional suggestions.
CourVO
More and more, I find myself editing video. I don’t know why I find that worth mentioning…I’ve been in TV 30 years…but never have I felt the incursion of video in my world like I do now.
In a previous life, video was always something on TV, and one could always choose to turn it off.
But there’s almost no opting out of video these days. It’s all over Social Media sites: esp. FaceBook, and Twitter (YouTube, duh!). But it’s also in blogs, all over the regular websites I use, and on my smartphone.
EDITING!
Which means a guy almost has to be proficient at EDITING video to get by these days. At last count there are about 5,453,678 video editing software suites out there. A certain (ahem) Adobe product keeps getting mentioned, or Sony Vegas. TechSmith’s CamTasia is the undisputed king of capturing on-screen video…and Version 7.0 is a very full-featured video/audio editor too.
All of the above allow audio editing in a dismissive sort of way. Sony Vegas will let you pop out the audio and edit it as a wave file in Sony SoundForge, which is nice.
UNMITIGATED ENDORSEMENT
But in my experience, none of them hold a candle to Serif MoviePlus X3 in terms of features/price. I’ve mentioned Serif a number of times on this blog. The UK-based firm has excellent Desktop Publishing, Photo-editing, Web-Authoring, and Digital Drawing programs that in my mind are hands-down the best bargain anywhere. I don’t say that lightly. I’ve used ALL those programs for years, and for the price, nothing comes close that I can tell.
Serif Movie Plus X3 is rich with features, and very intuitive to use. Output goes to DVD or file, or YouTube…extremely customizable…I could go on and on.
MATCHING AUDIO & VIDEO
But HERE’S a great program if you need to save yourself the time-consuming labor of matching sound to video accurately without having to painstakingly do a frame-by-frame match over several video cuts: PLURALEYES by Singular Software.
According to its own website, PluralEyes: “…saves hours in post-production for multi-camera edits, dual-system audio or multi-take workflows such as music videos. It automatically synchronizes all your audio and video clips without the need for timecode, clappers or any special preparation…”
PluralEyes comes in versions compatible with FinalCut Pro, Premiere Pro, and Vegas Pro. I have NOT used this product, but if it works half as good as they say it does, it’s probably worth the $149. You can go to their website and get a fully functional version to try for 30 days. Not bad.
Let me know if you’ve used it.
CourVO
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