Puerto Rican Reverie: Recording and Remixing for 'The Rum Diary' 

Matt Hurwitz

Coquí: the tiny little chirping-frog natives of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, where Bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary was filmed, they are literally everywhere—even on the soundtrack—whether one wants them there or not....

The Roaring '20s: Ambient Audio Post for HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' 

Blair Jackson

Sound plays a vital role in conveying the world of Boardwalk Empire, with its vintage cars, telephones, Victrolas, guns and period music, which is used liberally in every episode....

Art Meets Tech 

By Chad Carlberg, director, Production Blue

Because I'm a visual artist turned director, striking a balance between technical precision and artfulness has remained a career-long obsession. The clients who choose our company, Production Blue, value a core capacity to deliver both...

My Post House: Sunrise Pictures 

Taylor Warren is the owner of Sunrise Pictures, a Telly Award-winning post house based in Middletown, Conn. He has been in the film industry for 19 years, and has worked on everything from feature films and documentaries to corporate projects...

My Post House: Mercury Labs 

Chris Lawing is director/editor at Mercury Labs, a cinema and communications company in St. Louis and San Francisco...

Whale of an Edit 

It would seem that Liz Bronstein never sleeps. As executive producer of Animal Planet's Whale Wars, Bronstein oversees the creation of the dramatic documentary series, which is set in the remote Southern Ocean off the coast of Antarctica...

Damages First Person 

Cory Melious, Rerecording Mixer/Sound Effects Editor, Sound Lounge

When Damages came to Sound Lounge with the prospect of providing postproduction for its third season, it presented an unusual challenge...

Put Down the Clapper and Ditch the Timecode? 

Trevor Boyer

One of the most prominent productivity plug-ins to surface during the past year is Singular Software's PluralEyes, which released for Apple Final Cut Pro in May 2009 and for Sony Vegas Pro in November of last year...

Planet 51's Postproduction Workflow 

Spain had an otherworldly success on its hands this year with Planet 51, the country's leading box office hit...

Apple Soundtrack Pro Tutorial 

By Jan Ozer

As with video, it's hard to capture audio perfectly. Fortunately, Apple Soundtrack Pro makes it easy to correct many common problems. In this article, I'll detail how to remove pops and clicks from your audio file, boost volume via normalization, and remove background noise...