Make Your Own Video

I love accents and regional dialects, so I was enthralled to find IDEA, the International Dialects of English Archive. There are some interesting samples available, but unfortunately they seem to have a somewhat harsh view on what you can do with them. There also seems some confusion on what rights they give out. The above “copyright” page states:

You may play an IDEA recording or text file in a lecture, class, training session, or workshop directly from the internet, or your students may do so from their own individual terminals, without obtaining special permission; but distributing copies of them either by disc or by digital file, requires special permission and the payment of an appropriate fee.

Yet the front page of the site states:

Once you have chosen a recording to download, simply click on it and save it — at no cost to you!

And when you get to a page of samples it states even more forcefully:

**IMPORTANT** In order to properly play these soundfiles, you must first save them to your hard drive! Please right-click on the desired sample and choose to save it to your computer. Our server does not support streaming audio at this time.

I leave it to you to work out what you actually may or may not do.

Via Complications ensue.

Robert Nagle (a.k.a “idiotprogrammer”) is also cruising the web taking note of useful stuff for video. Today I spotted that he had collected some useful links about Audio for Video Production.

Check it out.

Via DV for Teachers, a really thought-provoking article about the deep nature of film sound, and its relationship to the images. From one of the top film sound guys. I strongly recommend you read this if you have ever even thought about making video or film.

Read the article at: Walter Murch