Transition SFX libraries?

Sunflux wrote on 9/29/2007, 10:48 PM

Does anyone know of any good scene transition sound effect libraries? I'm sort of looking for nice bassy sweeps, whooshes and booms to punch up my audio... similar to those used on the TV show Numb3rs. Although they DO go a bit overboard there. :-)

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Spot|DSE wrote on 9/29/2007, 11:40 PM

Other than those we create on our own (an old Juno 6 is great for this) we use sounds from the Sony Media library and an old Ulead SFX library that came with DVD Workshop 1.0, if you can find a copy lying around.
There are lots of freebies on the web, too.

Grazie wrote on 9/30/2007, 12:42 AM

I've created my own - many of these! I create them from "found" sounds that are part OF the project itself. I then manipulate them in a combination of Vegas and SF. I used a Thunderstorm lighting strike to do my heart beat on a recent ProType project.

I bet, that under your very nostrils, you have stacks of legal freebie stuff on already captured work. It has also been known for me to breathe "whooshes" and clicks and Xhosa type clicks directly into to a mic - slap on some reverb maybe up or lower the note - multi-track these sounds or even REVERSE to get a sound I want. I learnt loads from doing this myself and you will be amazed how little you need to create, what I think, are quite impressive "homegrown" stingers or transitions.

I'm not suggesting for one moment you are, but in general we really shouldn't forget to experiment - we learn more and have more fun too! I also get that neat warm fuzzy feeling that I did it and nobody can come chasing me. Sure, it takes time and time is money. But just how long are you going to search the exact thing? OK, use SFX libraries I do .. but don't dismiss dong a bit of beachcombing with your own options too.

The other thing about doing it from already captured audio footage is that it may, just may, have a narrative relationship to the actual edit too - yeah?

Grazie

vitalforce wrote on 9/30/2007, 1:32 AM

Grazie's thoughts remind me that in our project, a WWII love story, I created a high-pitched 1940s Europe train whistle from an inexpensive little Native American flute I bought at a train stop in New Mexico. In SF I squeezed it to raise the pitch and added a nice echo with Acoustic Mirror.

Then by squeezing the pipe sound even tighter, it acted as a quick squeak of the brakes of a stopping truck.

(In the coming weeks we'll have a revised web site up, with a trailer of the DV film edited entirely in Vegas.)

rjkrash wrote on 9/30/2007, 8:11 AM

Take a look at Digital Juice Swipes. They often have sales and special deals that get theses into a nice price range.

rj

Terry Esslinger wrote on 9/30/2007, 10:22 AM

I believe to get the sound effects that the Swipes use that you also have to buy their Sound Effects albums.

tumbleweed2 wrote on 9/30/2007, 10:42 AM

No, you do not. The sound fx are part of the product, & you can mix & match the fx, or use them independently.

Terry Esslinger wrote on 9/30/2007, 11:20 AM

I stand corrected.
It is the Editors Tool Kit that needs the Sound Effects Library.
The Swipes has the sound built in.