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Installed SmartSound Sonicfire (”The Music Score for Your Vision”). Wanted to install version 5.5.2, from Avid MC 5.0 install disk (it is unchanged in MC 5.5), but the installation hung (problem with disk or at least incompatible with my MBP’s reader?).  No download was available for this product on my Avid Download account, while on the SmartSound website, only the latest version (update), namely 5.7.0 (on Windows, else 5.7.1 for Mac) could be downloaded.  However that downloaded and installed fine.  The Sonicfire app also pulled in some additions to its sound library, initially from the web and subsequently from SmartSound’s Core Sessions disk (which was fully readable); spontaneously once I inserted it.

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•  For TV adverts, how to maintain legal audio loudness.
• Can use NuGen’s Audio VisLM, then (for US ?), level audio files using ATSC/A85 preset.
• Compact version, as of 2011-04-22, costs $186
• They say:
  • True cross-platform, multi-format loudness meteringThe most fundamental question in audio production, how loud is it? Simple and yet elusive, with loudness inconsistency and incompatibilities present every day in broadcasts across the world.With detailed, objective loudness measurement, history and logging facilities, VisLM provides a simple, ITU, ATSC and EBU standard compliant* way to measure, compare and contrast loudness during production, broadcast and post production, on the fly or for entire sections of audio.VisLM introduces several essential parameters for audio measurement.* True-Peak level metering (inter-sample accurate level monitoring)* Loudness Range (to help decide if and how much dynamic compression to apply)* Momentary ‘instantaneous loudness’ for mixing by ear* Short term loudness (3 second time window)* Program Loudness (long term integrated loudness measurement)

 On the Nokia N95 8GB, where is audio recorder and where does it store?

• [Applications > Media > Voice Recorder]

Settings:

• Recording Quality = “High”, Memory in use = “Mass memory” (as opposed to “Phone memory”)

Save-Location:

• [\\Memory card\Sounds\Digital]
• (as opposed e.g. to [\\Memory card\Sounds\Sound clips])

Zoom H4N Audio Recorder, looks great:

• http://filmtools.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/zoom-h4n-recording-wavs-shredding-the-competition/

Need better wireless audio kit.  Production Video provide good advice.  Also, to help gain familiarity, here’s a good-looking article on the Sennheiser MKE105S-EW: http://filmtools.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/sennheisers-new-ew-series-microphones/