Talented people can only be worked with in person. Los Angeles is the only place for our business, this is where the actors and producers are. Is our city a good place to do what you do? Traffic avoidance is a major consideration for helping Actors and Producers. For example, we record ADR on location and have a large mobile ADR Trailer that allows us to travel to actors. We make decisions based on two factors what’s best for the client and how do we effectuate the budget to best serve the project and their needs. We hope that like-minded professionals will appreciate our direction and want to join us. We’ve developed five other products that are still in the prototype and testing stages. ABDX is also proving to be useful for sound effects and Foley clean up. It saves us three hours of labor on each TV show, those hours add up. We identify inefficiencies in our business and develop technologies to minimize expenses for the company’s participating members.Ībsentia DX is our first example of cost reduction, it is an intelligent algorithm that automatically removes obvious defects from production sound rolls. Through our relationships, we are rebuilding Todd-AO as an agile company without the top-heavy expenses of real estate and executive or administrative salaries.
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Todd-AO (2017) is now a software and hardware developer with sound editorial and mixing franchises. The company won 22 Academy Awards and 41 Emmys. Todd-AO is a legendary name in feature film and television, it was founded by Mike Todd, Producer of Around the World in 80 days, and husband to Elizabeth Taylor. We’d love to hear more about your business.
Note: the video game industry is strict about intellectual property rights. In addition to a struggling economy, Piracy in our industry became rampant with sound editors pirating terabytes of sound libraries and using them on their feature films and television shows. In 2008, online SFX sales as a whole, experienced a major decline during the economic downturn of the US Economy. Sound Dogs USA had done movies like The Insider, Ali, Road to El Dorado, Big Momma’s House and Zoolander, and was growing slowly because the Internet remained quite slow compared to today. In 2001, Sound Dogs USA and split, the partners were going in different directions and the breakup was difficult. Absentia DX, an intelligent software tool for sound cleaning, is his first step in the revival. In November 2014, Rob acquired the Todd-AO / Soundelux sound library and trademark assets in Federal Bankruptcy Court and is in the process of reviving the company. Feature films recorded include Arrival, Gold, A Hologram for the King, Birth of a Nation, and Demolition. His Santa Monica studio, Third Street ADR records for Orphan Black, The Expanse, and Shadow Hunters.
Sound Supervisors hire Rob for SFX recording on projects like Uncharted 4, Smurfs 3, The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale, Noah, Snow White and The Huntsman, and Hacksaw Ridge.
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In addition to running Sounddogs, Rob has been the Supervising Sound Editor for the TV Series “BONES” since it’s pilot in 2004, and his sound editorial company has Supervised shows like The Tick, Prison Break (2017), Tyrant, Salem, Backstrom, The Finder, Second Chance, and Rosewood. now has 960,000 sound effects and music tracks online. was the world’s first on online sound effects library and continues to lead the market by travelling all over the world to record authentic sounds continuously expanding the library with high-quality new content.
In 1996, began development of, a commercial sound and music library, the site launched in May 1997. He left for Toronto at age 20 to become an Assistant Engineer Master’s Workshop, moved up to working for Imax on The Rolling Stones at the Max, and by 1992 was working for Sound Dogs Canada. Today we’d like to introduce you to Rob Nokes.Īt the age of five, Rob started as a “gofer” in the Jockey’s Room at Assiniboia Downs, a horse racetrack in Winnipeg, and by the age of seventeen was the video departments pan cameraman.