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KMac routinely kills it…it’s just her natural disposition and skillset. Love this exposure. Kudos to Cineplex for continuing this series on spotlighting those of us behind behind behind picture and the camera.

A sound editor sitting in her studio facing two cameras, lighting and a microphone overhead

Got to sit down and spend some time in front of the cameras (eep!) with Cineplex Theaters yesterday to chat about the role of a sound editor/designer for their pre-show series on different film crafts. I wonder which weird anecdotes of mine will make it to the big screen... stay tuned!

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The Motion Picture Sound Editors has been working with the Critics Choice Association to add a Best Sound category to their annual awards – and yesterday it became official! As a board member of the MPSE I’m happy to congratulate the first-ever Best Sound nominees for the Critics Choice Awards ❤️🔊🏆

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It’s the season!!! #FYC #emmys2025 #OutstandingSoundEditing #AgathaAllAlong #HouseoftheDragon #sounddesign #dragons #witches

Also: The first two weeks of principal had to be reshot as they recast Marty McFly!

Just finished watching the film at an MPSE event in Toronto with Scott in attendance…still a great looking and sounding film that engaged the audience entirely. Thanks to the MPSE and Vaughan International Film Festival for a great evening.

#mpse

MPSE in Toronto! Finally!

‘House of the Dragon’ Sound Designer Used Seals, Pigs, Birds and Infants to Give the Creatures ‘Beautiful Voices Even in Death’ "It’s honoring the legacy of these dragons to find their...beautiful voices even in death,” says "House of the Dragon' sound designer Paula Fairfield

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Understood, thanks. I don’t feel quite so archaic! Is your SM / Radium Scratch recorder directory a permanently referenced folder in one of your SM databases or, at the end of a film, do you take the time to tidy it up and re-folder the “keepers” elsewhere? My Radium record folder overfloweth!

Either way, do you simply rely on the default file naming out of Radium for those “temporary” sounds (which, I appreciate, can now be used more methodically with Radium UCS naming in 6.2)?

I struggle with quickly ending up with many auto-named SM REC files from Radium to later sort through.

Thx!

Do you allow newly recorded radium elements to show up in your SM database (as they do by default) and then spot them to your PT timeline from SM to continue working on them?

Or do you have a script of some type that sends the new sounds to PT from a Finder folder?

Tim, if I may, I have a question about your workflow unrelated to the 6.2 update.

At 01:05:15 in your video you mention something a practice that I also have: Using Radium to create “source material” that you then bring into PT to work with further.

I’m curious about your workflow in doing so.

#heromoves

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Given that those machines can’t be upgraded by users (if I recall correctly), I would put as much RAM in as you can afford.

Also, in our labs, I used the old rule of keeping picture files on a separate bus/volume. We stored QuickTimes on the internal drive and PT sessions/media on external volumes.

Pro Tools? Once you add picture, it will start to strain.

In 20+ years of teaching, the greatest challenges I had with students using their own machines were traced back to the *other* things they will do with those machines. Conflicting software, installing Media Composer *and* ProTools, etc.

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Congratulations, Frank. The track was wonderful, a perfect compliment to the entire film and one of my favourites of last year. Well done!

When I first read this, I saw “whiners” as “winners”. Both words make a true sentence. (At least recent history.)

Ahhhhhh yes…the Newsletters. Entirely sensible! Too much so for me, I guess. Thanks very much.

@larsenonfilm.bsky.social Hello Josh…FFamily member here. New to Discord…how do I join the Family server?

Thanks!