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Sound is Gold

yaniv — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:40:08 +0000

At Crexels, I do a lot of translation and dubbing for different projects. I have to translate the projects fro english to spanish. I can’t change any of the actual video and there is not much creative involved since the graphics have to be exactly the same. The only control that I have is the audio. For that, I take extremely good care that it is perfect.

The infomercials I have done are of course translations from english. There is no way to hide the fact that the audio and the movements of the mouth are different but when the audio is out of sync, when the levels are off and when there is no emotion on the new voices, it not only bothers the viewer but it also destroys all credibility and interest on what it is being said.

Audio is something that is very unconscious, you don’t pay attention when it is done right and that is the key. It makes the video pleasant and it adds so much to the experience.

The best example of how important audio is can be seen in horror movies. Just mute any horror movie and the horror is gone. The audio gives you a push to the edge of the seat.

It is the same with audio translation for infomercials. A show will not be great because people are paying attention to the audio but a show can be destroyed because the sound is bad.

What do you think?

The 1st Noche de Los Cortos

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:33:31 +0000

What a great night it was. We are happy to have produce such a great event. The “1st Noche de Los Cortos” was a night of great short films, great food and awesome company. A great crowd showed up to enjoy 11 great short films.

Here is the list of the Cortos that were showcase during the night.

-”Cédula Ciudadano” by Diego Velasco

-”Still Greta” by Martha Welles

-”Brasaletes” by Cristóbal Sobera & Béstor Pérez

-”either / or” by Juan Avella

-”Just Wrong” by Omar Mora

-”Beautifully Esther” by Ricardo Korda

-”Colmillo” by Albi Abreu

-”Il Destino” by Fanny Veliz

-”She is the One” by Luis Carlos Hueck

-”Winner Best Short Film” by Peter Meech

-”La Nochebuena de Paco y Manolo” by Alejandro Furth.

The winners of the 1st Noche de Los Cortos are:

BEST COMEDY:

“She is the One” by Luis Carlos Hueck.

BEST DRAMA: a tie.

“Colmillo” by Albi de Abreu

“Beautifully Esther” by Ricardo Korda.

We want to thank the sponsors who believed and helped the event: They are: Makine Studios, Epson Latin America, Blague Communications, EVS, Coupa Cafe & Plastilina Creativa. We also want to thank Luis Carlos Hueck for his unparalleled help and for donating the awards and Otto Scheuren for his great help in setting up the location.

Here are some of the pictures of the shop. All photos are by Mariana Tineo

iPad while Recording a VO

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:44:21 +0000

I have been inside a Recording studio for four days and it saddens me to see all the paper that it is wasted. Even though we recycle and use the paper on both sides.

So last time I took a different route and a nicer one. Even the talent was happier. The only problem is that they we very easily distracted.

“Cuidado con los Leftovers” Wins Telly Award

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:04:06 +0000

We just received or award letter. “Cuidado con los Leftovers” won a 2010 Telly Award. We are very happy that these awards demonstrates our commitment to our work and the quality of production Crexels delivers.

Winner: Best Short Film (Trailer)

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:56:59 +0000

Check out the trailer at LOS CORTOS via this link here

Shooting Green Screen with the RED

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:18:31 +0000

We had a great time shooting on a green screen on Thursday. I have to thanks the crew who were great and the entire day went without any problems.

Thanks sooo much

And I look forward to seeing the final product.

Crexels’ Editing Setup

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:14:39 +0000

I am writing to get an opinion of what I have done. Crexels is a small company. We have two editing systems and a laptop that can edit if needed. All running Final Cut Studio 2.

I wanted to create a server kind of setup where I can edit from any computer without the need to sync material or move material from one place to another.

Since we don’t have the capital to go actual servers and fiber optics, I decided to go ethernet. I upgraded everything to go gigabyte. I got new cables and a new switcher and got a 3 NAS Iomega drives. These drives have two drives inside and are setup as RAID 1 so I have a backup of everything.

I created a couple of folders in the biggest drive. One for Final Cut Projects and the second one for Resources (Inside the resources folders, there are folders for each project). All the rendering is done locally in each machine. I know that sometimes is a pain to render a few times but it is not a big deal for the projects we do. Initially, I try to run uncompress material from the drives but it was impossible, so I made Pro-Ress files from the uncompress originals and put those in the Resources folder and to my surprise it worked perfectly. The timeline in FCP is uncompressed and the Pro-Ress file and the Uncompress have the same name. When is time to output to master, I just reconnect the master file to the uncompressed which is also locally in the large editing system and voila, done.

The total cost of the improvement was about $725
• Netgear JGS516 ProSafe 16-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
• New Cables: about $125
• 3 Iomega StorCenter ix2 – 1 TB (2 x 500 GB) Network Attached Storage

Now, my question to you is what do you think? Can I improve this setup? and how?

A NEW Site

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:06:00 +0000

What a bummer…For the last two days I have been trying to fix the previous website. It got hacked and it was redirecting every page to different sites. Since I just couldn’t fixed it and the hosting company had just a 48 hour backup I decided to start fresh. Get everything out and start from zero.
So here it is. A new look. I really hope you like it. If you find any bugs or think that some areas need to improve, send us a line and we will do what ever we can to improve the site and your experience.

Thanks so much for your understanding

The Crexels’ Team