Appendix 3

Audio in Video Editing

For most of us now, audio is simply a part of the greater multi-media whole. Only in the fields of music for CD, vinyl and radio broadcast can sound people remain comfortably isolated from video and its strange ways. In post-production, audio has long been considered a poor relation of video, which is rather odd since the power of audio is such that radio is, and always will be, a fully viable medium of information and entertainment – there never has and never will be any form of broadcasting that involves images with no audio content (and I certainly don’t count the graphics and text of most Internet websites as broadcasting). Still, we audio types find ourselves in a situation where we have to press continually ...

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