5 Things that Voice artists get wrong when submitting final audio - Number 1
As a voiceover artist and a sound engineer with over 25 years experience, I now have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn’t when supplying voiceover tracks for any kind of recorded media.
I’m doing a short video mini-series on the top 5 things that will improve the experience for both voice artist and audio / video producer!
Today - number 1 - File Naming conventions:
Here’s a transcript of this episode:
Hello, friends, welcome to the mighty Toby Ricketts studios here in the far north of New Zealand, in the middle of nowhere, as those of you who follow my channel know that I'm in the middle of the New Zealand jungle. Anyway, today I'm going to start a series about what voiceovers get wrong when they submit their final audio tracks. This is useful for not only voice overs, but people who use voiceover in their projects as well. So I just want to go over a few of the classic mistakes because I've recently cast a project and so many of these came up that I thought, I've got to do a video series where I tell people what does my head in when people submit their files. So the first one today is file naming and it sounds really innocuous and like, who cares about file naming? You know, like just call it anything, you know, voice Track O1. But as someone who receives lots of voice tracks, that is super annoying because it doesn't identify what the project is, what date it was. So you end up with this downloads folder just full of these random things. You have to listen to them to find out what they are. So here are my suggestions on how to name your voice tracks. Right. So your name is super important and the file name that Toby Ricketts. So if someone gets it, they're like, oh, well, that's Toby's voiceover. Obviously the brand. This is a voiceover I did for Abu Dhabi their, find wonder campaign. So the brand and the campaign is really important to put in there and then like what the session was. So was it the first voice session? Is it a pick up? Is it the temp track like I did here? Then you'll notice that there are processed versions and there are raw versions. I always send like a raw version in case the engineer wants to do their own processing on it and a processed one in case they just want to put it in because it sounds great. And then the date is really important as well, because once you start getting into a lot of things, you need to know what the most recent kind of one was. And I think it's important to include all these things, because if it comes to if the client wants to keep working with you and do other project, it's really important to differentiate this project from the last one. And it just it just helps so much as far as speaking as an audio producer to to know exactly what this file is and what it contains without having to open it up and listen to it. So that's another little quick bite. Stay tuned this week because we're going to go over the other four things, there are going to be five posts in the series. It's going to another four things of how to improve your audio when submitting it. So I hope you found that useful. Thanks, guys.
