Learn Light and Sound

By Curtis Judd

Technology Education TV & Film

What's Learn Light and Sound about?

On the Learn Light and Sound podcast, we help you learn how to improve your sound and lighting for video and film. We focus mainly on production sound recording for film and video, but also cover lighting and cameras. We’ll cover topics to help you improve your sound and video projects.

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Learn Light and Sound episodes:

02.26.2021
Thoughts on Livestreaming
After livestreaming for 5 years, I have a few observations to share regarding livestreams, their strengths, and their weaknesses.
10.14.2020
Choosing a New Production Recorder with Allen Cavedo
In this episode, we talk with Allen Cavedo, a production sound mixer based in Virginia. Allen is in the market for a new production recorder/mixer and hasn't yet decided whether to go with the Sound Devices 833 or 888. We...
09.21.2020
Thoughts on Audio Recorders for Video
Here are some of my thoughts on when it makes sense to use a dedicated audio recorder rather than just run a microphone to camera.
04.06.2020
Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K with Cary Judd
In this episode we talk with Cary Judd about the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K. We've both shot with this camera for 6 months and here we talk about what we like and don't like about this rather popular...
03.21.2020
Microphone Disagreement? A Discussion on Microphones with Bandrew Scott
In this episode, we are joined by Bandrew Scott who does microphone reviews over on the Podcastage YouTube channel. We explore the observation that different podcasters, sound for video mixers, and audio engineers can have very different opinions about the...
02.09.2020
Lectrosonics Wireless with Karl Winkler
In today's episode, we have a talk with Karl Winkler of Lectrosonics. Lectrosonics is the pro-level wireless microphone brand you encounter most often on the sets of larger film and TV productions. Karl walks us through what makes Lectrosonics wireless...
01.17.2020
Q&A Session 25 March 2019
In this episode, we answer your questions on sound for video.00:20 Recording Cars03:57 Zoom H4n & Samson CO2?06:22 How to sweeten dialogue sound11:10 Which boom microphone for indoors?13:00 Apps to automix dialogue in post?15:00 MixPre as audio interface - does...
01.17.2020
Fairlight Questions
A week after publishing our new mini course on editing and mixing dialogue audio in DaVinci Resolve's Fairlight, I received a few interesting questions from my friend Jacob Fenn. Here are his questions and my answers.While processing the audio for...
01.17.2020
Zoom F4 Firmware, Fairlight, & Sennheiser XSW-D Wireless
In our first audio-only Sound for Video Session, we cover the new features Zoom added to the F4 recorder in the 3.0 firmware update. Now F4 users have AutoMix an the Advanced Hybrid Look-Ahead limiters that were previously only on...