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Harry Potter Narrator At Work In The Hundred Acre Wood
With the debut of the final film in the Harry Potter series, I reminisced recently about the great narration by Jim Dale, the 1980 Tony-award winning actor of Barnum, co-starring Glenn Close. Jim Dale's great character voices brought all the wizards and muggles and...
Adobe Audition CS5.5 For Mac and PC Is Here
The wait is finally over for Mac users who wanted an audio editing program that is more robust than Soundbooth, but less complicated and expensive than ProTools. Adobe Audition CS5.5 has gone native! Audition now runs on both Mac OS and Windows PC platforms. Also new...
Adobe Audition Coming to Mac OS
At long last! Adobe has developed a Mac OS version of its famous Adobe Audition, a complete and feature-rich audio recording, editing, mixing and mastering program. The beta version of Adobe Audition for Mac is currently available through Adobe Labs. This is great...
National Voiceover Appreciation Month
Hey, September is National Voiceover Appreciation Month. Who knew?! OK well, maybe it's a little navel gazy. But I don't just do voiceovers, I hear them too. I'm informed and entertained by voice actors every day. So since it is Voiceover Appreciation Month, here's a...
Preserving Voiceover Continuity with Adobe Audition 3.0
Some big projects never go away. If you're the voice for a call center, you can expect clients to come back with requests for more prompts a week, a month or even a year down the road. If you're successful in preserving continuity, the prompts you do a year from now...
Voiceover Training: Recording Voice Overs
Today, there's a lot of great voiceover training available that teaches people how to actually do voice overs, even specific types of voice over. Well, sure! But given the nature of the industry, it's also essential to learn about recording voice overs. Like many of...
WPaudio WordPress MP3 Player Plugin for Voice Over Samples
I found a nice, clean, attractive, fast-loading audio player plugin for WordPress today, the WPAudio WordPress Plugin designed by Todd Iceton. It's very easy to install and customize (alter colors to fit your theme). Because it's so streamlined, it doesn't leave a...
New Html5-Friendly VO Website
Buying an iPad has been an unanticipated benefit for my voiceover business. I no longer print my scripts. I just email them to my iPad account and it reads any attachment: doc, docx, xml, pdf. Nice! But my flash-based audio players disappeared from my website! Not...
SEO for Your Voiceover Website
Our company, Saco Media LLC, designs and manages websites for Florida attorneys in addition to producing voiceover and providing network and IT support. Somehow all that fits together pretty well and provides a nice package of services for our major clients. One of...