Alex Knickerbocker
@axknickerbocker
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just read this in an investor update "older engineers who graduated from college pre-GPT are actually the best-suited for our purposes. They have fundamental programming ability that's lost amongst most of the current-gen." the AI-induced thinking/skills decay has begun wild
Also, No Country for Old Men. Zero score. A masterclass in dramatic, tense, emotional storytelling without anything to hide behind.
If you're an editor looking to start watching some films to get your understanding of storytelling up (highly recommend you do that, btw): Start here: The Social Network (2010). It won an Oscar and a BAFTA for Editing, along with an Oscar and a Golden Globe for its score. (I…
This, but across every industry ☠️
> freeze hiring > start firing > invest in AI infrastructure > deploy "AI software engineers" > wait 3 years > ... > ... > ... > AI introduced more technical debt than a fresh mathematics PhD > software becomes more and more buggy > slowly lose customers > hire consultants to fix…
consistent roomtone with proper crossfades instantly makes any video 60%+ more professional and smooths cuts way more than you'd think
The most important thing in film editing is that the cut "flows". Three main things break the flow: 1. Continuity errors 2. "Choppiness" (cutting too fast) 3. Audio errors (clicks on hard cuts, inconsistent roomtone, etc) If you can keep the flow, the audience can "lose…
you learn filmmaking by making films, making mistakes, trying to create and recreate what you love to watch - not by taking classes.
«My film education came from watching other movies» Paul Thomas Anderson on his experience with film school.
This is happening across the board in many of the creative industries - mine included (film/TV/music). Relevant pro knowledge largely does not exist on majority of college campuses. You will not learn the craft by getting a degree.
Game development education has failed, and the old guard has moved on, retired or been laid off. I've talked to recent graduates and people actively in school that know literally nothing about old techniques or optimization in any way. They expect the engine to do everything for…
#1 most important audio tool to learn in the age of ai: EQ, just like it always has been it’s like learning piano - the theories and ideas translate to every other instrument
200+ decibels = shockwave, not sound without the water to absorb and diffuse the force, the sound from the rocket literally shakes it apart NASA JPL has a lab specifically for testing sound levels, with a 30,000 watt nitrogen-powered speaker
NASA dumps 450,000 gallons of water before every launch to stop the rocket from destroying itself
one service underpinning half the internet feels maybe like a bit of a vulnerability
The tech community really needs to spend more time outside their bubble What if I told you OpenAI hired six different vendors (that’s a company - not a freelancer) to do creative, production, vfx, sound, color, and editing GenAI / text to video is a gimmick for advertisers, a…
I’m convinced the new OpenAI ChatGPT commercial was made with Sora 2. The visuals just look too clean and cinematic not to be. On October 16, Dev Day, we’ll see what OpenAI has really been cooking.
A quick formula to get pro-sounding dialog/VO: 🎙️ Right mic in the right place, recorded at healthy levels without clipping 🎛️ EQ: filter extreme lows/highs, notch out hums, shape overall sound 🎧 Denoise: light general processing to tame (but not remove) 🔊 Compress: tame…
My greatest fear about AI in the creative community: So much institutional knowledge in major-level filmmaking is still passed down from master to apprentice by word of mouth and hands on experience. Never recorded, never written down, learned by action and repetition. It’s…
Sound can (and does) make or break a film.
"A motion picture must be the most effective combination of both image & sound. Cinematic sound is never merely accompaniment, never merely what the sound machine caught while you took the scene. Real sound does not merely add to the image, it multiplies it." — Akira Kurosawa
Pretty solid evidence that @udiomusic is illegally trained on copyrighted content. This was prompted to sound like The Beatles. No way it could've gotten the vocals and style this dead-on without the right source. Heads up, @UMG & @sonymusic! @PaulMcCartney @yokoono
A limited @MondoNews poster from a Superman film I worked on many years ago called “Man of Steel”. Even a decade later, this project is still really special to me for so many reasons. @ZackSnyder @HenryCavill_UHD @Superman @SoundWorksTweet
“Oblivion” was one of my favorite projects to be involved with. I eventually started collecting the soundtracks for films I’ve been a part of, and I just dug this one out of the collection to hear again. Still one of my absolute favorite modern sci fi scores.
💯 🔊 Maturing as a filmmaker is realizing that visuals and sound are equally important and should be treated as such if you want truly “pro” production quality.
Maturing as an editor is using less video tracks and more audio tracks
Plug-ins are great, but there’s something undeniably organic about sound design with hardware FX and pedals. @EHX makes some legendary processors heard in film, TV, and music for decades. And adding grit/drive to SFX to make them feel bigger without boosting levels.
The beautiful new PDX720 from @AudixMics. Can’t wait to hear it on vocals & voiceover - the integrated mount + XLR out combo and the sleek end-address design (plus the personalized engraving 🙏🏼) set the bar high already! @Videndum_plc #vocals #recording #microphone #audio
Just finished recording with my matched pair of LA-120s from @LautenAudio. Bright, but not too harsh. Great on loud sources, and you can shape their sound with the built in filters to cut lows, highs, or both. Definitely worth trying if you haven’t. #sounddesign #fieldrecording
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