Alex Audio Butler (AAB for short) is a small series of VST plug-ins that plug into popular video programmes and promise to handle sound mixing independently. Currently these are DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition. Others are in the works. AAB runs under Windows 10 and Mac OS 10.13 or higher, and even natively with M1 on the Mac, but it does not work with the AppStore version of Resolve. (But who wants that?) My expert colleague Björn Eichelbaum gives you a general overview of AI in the audio sector in this issue from page 72 onwards. I, on the other hand, am a tester without any audio expertise; at best, in my younger years I was able to use the equaliser on my stereo system to crank up my music to disco levels. In demanding film projects, I have always respected the important role of sound and left this work to the professionals.
Final mix from the robot But what about a small, underfunded project with no budget at all? We carried out a practical test on a video portrai...
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