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WILFRED [ Cont.from 12 ] mans chasing cats; and frisky compos- ited live-action squirrels. Many VFXshots were created by Almost Human. "The way you manipulate sound can really color your edit," he notes. "In the episode where Ryan has panic attacks, his sister's baby seems to be setting them off. When we hear the baby crying we had his sister's voice shift to a distant reverb to pull her back away from him." He and Einhorn are "obsessed with music, " he admits, This season features more VFX shots than last, including head replacements to create a preferred take. According to Edelson, a lot of time is spent in the offline getting the mix, audio levels and sounds just right. [ Cont.from 32 ] Ellison acknowledges all that footage puts a heavy load on him during editing, but he has no choice since it's all unscripted. "Because of this, the show doesn't really take shape until post. I use Final Cut 7 to edit, Red Giant's Mojo, and Instant HD to increase the quality of the pathetic DVX footage." According to Ellison, editing for YouTube viewers means keeping episodes in the five-to-six-minute range. "They want quick and interesting content; it's different than anything else I've ever shot or edited." For the show's audio, Ellison uses friends' recording studios during off times. He calls on Pro Tools|HD to record the music. He also turns to Apple Logic for music recording at his home studio for more simple pieces, as well as the show's audio. [ Cont.from 42 ] the Mac and saved to a dedicated 1TB internal SATA drive. When a session is complete, it is then copied to the two separate RAID systems. BAM Studios is phasing out their old 19TB Kano Technologies RAID in favor a new RAID system by Drobo. The Drobo RAID writes data to three drives at once, so even if two drives failed, the data wouldn't be lost. When you install a new drive, the Drobo RAID rebuilds the data. Drobo created a proprietary RAID technology, called BeyondRAID, which allows the user to add a new drive, or swap out a drive, at any time. With old RAID technology, if you want to increase the capacity, the whole system would have to be format- ted at the same time. With Drobo, you can simply swap out a smaller drive in the system for a larger one. "The Drobo grows with you. As the drives get larger, we can just put in new drives and populate those with the original data, plus have room for new data," explains Reed. "So when we have to go back to projects, they're always right there." He uses the Drobo for back-ups and long-term and he's encouraged to dig deep in his library for temp tracks to hand off to composer Jeff Cardoni. The doggie dancing episode gave Edelson a chance to use more source music than usual; a big production number finale was recorded in a studio with full strings, brass and bass. Mixing is done at Gray Martin Studios. "What I love about Wilfred is that it's a blend of a lot of elements," says Edelson. "There's a lot of dark humor, then you get an absurd production number, then dramatic and psychological issues. "It's fun to play with the pacing and rhythm to make the dark jokes work one minute and slow emotional moments work the next. It takes a lot of finesse to make those transitions successful, and I love the challenge." WEB SERIES The show's logo was designed by one of the tattoo artists, Cody Dresser, in Photoshop. For the animated version of the logo, Ellison used Apple Motion. Considering Ellison has spent more money than he's made on Needle Boys, his efforts are impressive. He's had offers from cable networks, but they all wanted creative control… not something he is ready to part with. "I turned them down because it gave them the rights to buy it and turn it into something that is scripted and overly produced...exactly what I am fighting against." 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