The most frustrating thing I ever find
is when you open up your AAF in Pro Tools
and the editor has just done such
a sloppy job of the tracklay and you have
to go back and he's used
bad audio in interviews
and lots of other issues that come up again and again
and that's incredibly infuriating,
so the use of an OMF or AAF
is a means of taking somebody's work
from one DAW to another
so taking a Pro Tools session
and bringing it into a studio like Pro Tools
is fine you just open up the Pro Tools
session great, but if I have all my work
done in say Nuendo
and I want to bring it into Pro Tools
or I've got all my work done in Premiere
as a video edit
and I want to bring it into Pro
Tools I need to create an AAF or an OMF
and that basically gives you a file
which is a carbon copy of your track lay
in one system
and then bringing it into a Nuendo
or Pro Tools you take in the AAF or OMF
and then you just get your carbon copy
of the original tracklay from the edit.
Just be aware. I mean listen to what's going on around,
is there air conditioning
going on or are the fridges going on
or are there trucks going by?
You know record the audio properly.
Don't have distortion going on,
you know, there's,
make sure your mics are working,
make sure you got new batteries.
It's, we did a show on being prepared
listen to the show before you go out
and do that thing,
so as,
just to make life easier for everybody
and you and you don't get one in the neck
for coming home with terrible audio
and everyone has trouble
and they're expected to fix it in post,
which in an awful lot of cases
might not be so easy.
I've been involved in a lot of projects
without naming names
and yes there's
just it's amazing
what people will consider as usable.
The audio between distortion,
between interference on the on the audio
dirt on the audio
just mics that are not working
in a shoot and they decide to use that audio anyway
even though you can't hear the contributor
because of they're in the lobby
of a hotel with loads of really high ceilings
and there are loads of really bad noise
and they still go ahead
and use this audio
because either they like
the shot or they weren't prepared
then you need to have everything right
and if you're in an edit,
you need to pick appropriate audio
that's usable so there aren't delays down the line.
Oh, that would have to be
probably my recorders,
actually I know there's the new headset
from Seinnheiser which is the coolest gear ever
right it's a smart headset
and it's got noise cancellation
and ambisonics recording
and in-ear monitoring at the same time
so yes that is my current
run into a building save piece of device, kit currently.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Can you pick another one?
Cabernet Sauvignon
What other liquid would there be?
I don't know sulfuric acid.
Why?
I don't know it's just,
I don't know milk.
Why?
Because you can put it in your tea.
Oh I'm a compulsive obsessive
when it comes to music
so I literally just listen to an album
compulsively for months and years
and never listen to anything else
and then I completely forget about it
but I suppose it could be Cook's by David Bowie
because it always puts a massive smile on my face
and it's the first song that came into my mind
when I saw my son for the first time.