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www.postmagazine.com 12 POST FEBRUARY 2018 SOUND LIBRARIES TORONTO, CANADA — Sound Ideas (www.sound-ideas.com), publisher of professional sound effects, announces the release of its newest sound effects library, HD — Space Whooshes & Winds. HD — Space Whooshes & Winds sound effects library is a high definition set of 442 specialty sound effects selected from Sound Ideas General HD 3 collection. Sound effects include Shimming Space Landscapes, Planetary Tremors, Cyborg Buzz Whooshes, Whipping Blizzard Gusts, Howling Wasteland Winds and Swirling Space Storms. The new collection is available as a download in 16/44.1, 16/48, 24/48, 24/96 kHz broadcast wav files or on hard drive containing all versions. LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Film School (www.lafilm.edu), found- ed in 1999, and its division, The Los Angeles Recording School (www. larecordingschool.com) offer associ- ate and bachelor's degrees in majors pertaining to the media and entertain- ment industry with an emphasis on audio for both music and production/ post production. Recently, the school turned to Soundly (http://getsoundly. com), a cloud-based sound library and editing tool, to create a central- ized library that could be accessed from anywhere. With the schools' emphasis on audio, sound production and post production, classes dive deep into the art of sound design and mixing. The schools' facilities train students in the latest tools and techniques used by the pros with a focus on hands- on learning. With that said, the LA Film School's Los Angeles campus operates five different programs: Film, computer animation/VFX, audio production, music production and entertainment business. There are also online courses available in digital film, music production, entertainment business and graphic design for stu- dents who live outside LA. One of the successful hallmarks of the school is that students are given gear pack- ages, allowing them to shoot origi- nal material, so they graduate with unique content on their demo-reel and plenty of real-world experience. The sound department is keenly aware, however, that audio post commonly gets squeezed in terms of budgets and time in the real world, since it is always at the end of the chain. To ensure that they have time for creativity, students are taught to work as efficiently as possible. One of the keys to getting a great sound mix is to streamline the process of finding and placing unique sounds to picture. Initially, SFX (sound effects) were stored on local network hard drives at the school and students could access them in the editing labs. At one point, Andres De La Torre, sound design in- structor, LA Film School, and the staff copied sound effects to flash drives and handed those out to students so that they could do their homework. "It was never ideal," says De La Torre, "because it was a fixed set of old SFX that everyone was sharing and it was nearly impossible to add sounds that people were capturing to a master library." The department wanted a better solution for storing and accessing sounds, one that was centralized and could be accessed from anywhere, and they wanted the library to constantly grow as students added the best cap- tured sounds each year. That's when they turned to Soundly as the solution. According to De La Torre, he noticed that the sound of projects changed almost overnight once students had access to a larger li- brary with a fast, online search tool. Sound mixes had become more creative, richer and more interest- ing than before. In addition to the high-quality SFX available from the Soundly cloud library, the Soundly search tool also lets students search the vast Freesound.org library. The Soundly application allows the students to edit and customize the precise part of a SFX that they need which saves precious time and space in their projects. "They simply set markers on the portion of the sound they want and drag the sound directly into their Avid bins, or directly onto the Pro Tools timeline," says De La Torre. "If they wish, they can change the pitch, reverse the sound, normalize the gain, convert to mono, all in the Soundly application, which saves loads of time from having to edit it in Pro Tools. Once we show students the 'Spot-it' function in Soundly, where sound is instantly copied to the Pro Tools timeline wherever the cursor is parked, they realize there's no faster way to work." SOUND IDEAS RELEASES NEW EFFECTS LIBRARY LA FILM SCHOOL RELIES ON SOUNDLY FOR EDITING AND CLOUD-BASED SFX LIBRARY