Sound Design: NanoStudio and CGD Ident

In the final week of sound work we were shown the most complicated program yet, NanoStudio. This is the most industry standard program we've used so far and it's easy to see why with the amount of settings and editing options that can be used on it. First of all we set to just learning the layout and what different settings did, but then we were given the task of mixing a track. NanoStudio has a list of premade tracks to showoff what can be done, so I had to open one of them and then play around changing as much as I could without adjusting the actual notes being played. Fair to say I had plenty of options to toy with so spent the next 20 mins adjusting as much as I could. I recorded the changes I made using OBS and then overlaid the music to create a small video of the outcome.

After sorting all of that out, we were given an ident for the CGD course. An ident is essentially a tiny clip with sound used to represent (identify) a company/brand. An example would be BBC2 and the different clips of the number 2 they show in between shows. Another is whenever you load up a games console and get the tiny splash screen to begin with. Our new task was to take the video clip and change the sound to something new and different that we could make in any program we wanted. I chose to use Audacity and add in audio because it's easy to manipulate sound and get it just how you want it. In order to separate the video from the sound I had to use Adobe Audition and in order to put the two together required the use of Premier. When I finished the sound and wanted to add it to the video I was at home so used a website called wevideo which unfortunately added a watermark and advert at the end.

Original CGD Ident

 My Finished Ident