From the course: Introduction to Video Sound Design
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The digital revolution
From the course: Introduction to Video Sound Design
The digital revolution
- [Instructor] Since we're discussing historical perspectives of sound design, I want to take a moment to explore the specific impact the Digital Revolution had in the 1990s, and explore how analog technologies moved into the Digital Revolution. Obviously it impacted visual editing and many other aspects of filmmaking, but let's check out how crafting a soundtrack changed when the means of production went from analog to digital. Audio was originally edited on magnetic film, or reels of 35 mm wide tape that looked like film. When a film soundtrack is created in post-production, it's made up of many independent discrete tracks, and some contain dialogue and production sound, some contain sound effects, some contain backgrounds, some contain music, et cetera. Every track had its own 35 mm magnetic strip with sprocket holes to keep it in sync. So, when you build this up over 24, 36, 72 tracks, that's a lot of tape to manage. It goes without saying, then, that editing sound was very time…
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