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Producing Great Sound for Digital Video
Jay Rose
A practical, end-to-end guide to audio for the moving image, Producing Great Sound for Digital Video walks independent producers through every stage of getting a good soundtrack: microphones and room acoustics, recording clean dialogue and voice-over, editing, working with music and effects, and building the final mix. Jay Rose, a veteran film and television sound engineer and longtime columnist, writes from the mixing chair rather than the lecture hall, explaining the underlying physics only as far as a working videographer actually needs. First published in 1999 and later expanded and retitled Producing Great Sound for Film and Video, it has been a staple on film-school reading lists. It suits anyone shooting video who has discovered that audiences forgive a weak picture long before they forgive bad sound, and who wants a clear, jargon-light manual rather than a theory text.
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The author
Jay Rose is a veteran audio engineer and sound designer for film, television, and advertising, a longtime magazine columnist on production sound, and a teacher whose work has appeared on film-school syllabi. He writes as a working practitioner, not an academic.
The book
Producing Great Sound for Digital Video (first edition 1999; later expanded and renamed Producing Great Sound for Film and Video) is a soup-to-nuts manual on audio for the moving image: microphones and acoustics, recording dialogue and narration, editing, scoring and effects, and the final mix. It assumes little prior knowledge and keeps the technical explanation practical.
How it reads
Clear, hands-on, and refreshingly jargon-light, it has long been a favorite of independent producers and students. Its central lesson, that viewers tolerate poor images far more readily than poor sound, remains as true as ever. Because production tools move quickly, the specific hardware and software references date fast; later editions track the shift to file-based and computer workflows. Reach for the newest edition when you need current gear specifics, but the fundamentals here still hold.
For more context
Rose's Audio Postproduction for Film and Video digs deeper into the mix stage.
Sources - Producing Great Sound for Film and Video (Wikipedia) - Internet Archive record
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Jay Rose
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Craft & How-to
- Location
- Colorado