Audio Postproduction for Film and Video

If you already have the author's other textbook, "Producing Great Sound," you may not need this one as there's quite a bit of crossover. But there's a lot more detail on post-production in this book, especially on EQ and effects. It was published in 2009, so some of the software-specific discussions are out of date, but most of the advice is timeless and still relevant.

In this book, Jay Rose does an excellent and thorough job of describing Post Production considerations and workflow to prepare audio for Film and Video. What I like about Jay's writing style, is that he really is mentoring the reader. The reader gets the feeling that Jay wants you to understand the workflow and why certain tools and work flow approaches are more appropriate for a given situation. A CD with pre and post processed audio is provided with the book. If you really want to get the most out of Jay's books, you will work along through the exercises on the CD using your DAW. He will start with a problem clip and go on to process it in several different forms. If you can work through and eventually duplicate his processing techniques and resulting sound, you will come away with an excellent understanding and feel for the concepts he describes.This book is really the second in a series of two. You should really start with "Producing Great Sound for Film and Video", also by Jay Rose and follow on with this book. Both books are now on my shelf as serious references and highly recommend working through both of them. Each book contains an audio CD as well.

a useful manual on all around audio postproduction for video. very pragmathic and well written. I found it very interesting and fluently explicative. I am happy to discover deeper and deeper practical aspects of this fantastic world.highly adviced.

I'm beginner in sound production and at the moment I'm working on small film. I bought the book as basic knowledge source. It is written in very good English, and is very simple and not boring at the same time. There are many appropriate hints, related to the chapters text, and they are placed very smart: Always come at the right time, when you're ready to get the information. All terms and concepts are simply explained and good referred from different chapters.I also use the book as motivation to work further on my current project. Works very well :)Love it.

This book is truly useful for the sound engineer and covers almost all you actually need to know for post-production The rest is covered in Jay Rose's other book. Very detailed but clear and easy to read. Lots of chapters on all aspects of the subject. Jay Rose's books really cover the subject in a practical way and tell you exactly what to do. Highly recommended for anyone who does their own editing and also good for producers so they know what to say to their editors. Superb!