See How Oscar® Winner Ron Bartlett Uses Waves On Film No More Goodbyes


See How Oscar® Winner Ron Bartlett Uses Waves On Film No More Goodbyes
See How Oscar® Winner Ron Bartlett Uses Waves On Film No More Goodbyes
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A new ground-breaking software for film, television and audio professionals is disrupting the recording industry. The world’s leading developer of signal processors and audio plugins for electronic audio markets, WAVES has now developed a revolutionary noise reduction software called Clarity VFX Pro. Advanced copies have been used on a few productions, including Sonic The Hedgehog 2 by Academy Award-winning re-recording mixer Ron Bartlett.

Waves can also be heard all over the world on everything from music albums and blockbuster films to hit TV series and video games. Last month, Waves asked re-recording mixers and sound supervisors for Academy Award-winning films and major productions to test Clarity VFX Pro, the new standard in noise reduction for dialogue.

One of the films selected to demonstrate the Pro Tools plugin was No More Goodbyes. It was selected to demonstrate the powerful isolation and restoration of key dialogue performances drowning in unavoidable production noise, like crickets, cicadas and emergency vehicles.

Ron Bartlett (Dune, King Richard) is a sound mixer who recently took home the Academy Award for Best Sound at the Oscars last month for Dune and was previously Oscar-nominated for his work on The Life of Pi and Blade Runner 2049.

In the video with WAVES, Ron shows a scene from No More Goodbyes featuring actor Jequan Jackson (Marvelous Mrs Maisel, FBI), who plays the character of Marc and Zuri Starks (This Is Us, Chicago Fire) who plays Shandie. Ron describes how “one thing I don’t have to do anymore with Clarity is render each track, you can do this online in real time with this plugin. You can ride the fader and you can feel the background go down.”

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The film’s director James Ganiere and writer Rebekah Ganiere are also Emmy-nominated producers and the creative team behind last years Rekindling Christmas. No More Goodbyes, illustrates the lengths two unrelated multi-racial foster brothers will go to stay together. After their foster mom “Nana” played by Starletta DuPois (The Notebook, Friday After Next) passes away, 17-year old Mark and his 11-year old Autistic foster brother, Tristan, fear they will be split up. Seeing they have no other choice, the boys go on the run.

James said, “On set there is a special environment created where actors trust me to take them places they would never go and capture transformative performances. It is both exhausting and energizing at the same time for us. Rarely can it ever be truly duplicated in Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR). And from a producer viewpoint the time and cost saving in eliminating ADR is significant. This software is an essential tool for every director and production team. Clarity VFX Pro, is a game changer.”

No More Goodbyes won the Audience Choice Award for Best Picture at the Santa Fe Film Festival, the first stop on its festival run.

Emmy-nominated producer David Bartlett (Rekindling Christmas) who has extensive background in sound design (Pulp Fiction, Speed) and re-recording mixing. Bartlett explained how “As filmmakers we all struggle with getting good production sound. It is often not possible to avoid sound on the set we do not want in the film. Things like traffic, city backgrounds and the noise from the microphones themselves. And have made it necessary to replace the production dialogue of the actors. There have been many attempts in the past to fix this noise with hardware and software both. They have worked to varying degrees, but the results were often limited. This software removes everything mentioned above, quickly, cleanly and smoothly. Clarity VFX Pro blows the roof off all those limitations.”

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Leading the cast with Jequan Jackson is Christian Ganiere (9-1-1, Criminal Minds) as Tristan, Christian’s part in this film, a young boy with Autism and PTSD, explores new depths from his normal roles including Grey’s Anatomy as Gus Carter who was Autistic suffering from seizures with the rarest blood type in the world “golden blood” or Wish Man as Michael who was dying of Leukemia and inspired Frank Shankwitz to found the “Make-A-Wish foundation” or Dylan on the NBC / Warner Bros Monica Potter sitcom pilot.

Oscar nominated actor Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, Runaway Train) also stars.

Powered by Waves Neural Networks®, Clarity Vx Pro is a real-time noise reduction plugin that isolates dialogue from ambience and cleans it at the highest quality, without artifacts by using a time-saving real-time workflow. Users can mix with Clarity in their DAW and immediately hear the clean results, non-destructively, in the context of your full video or audio session – without having to render, bounce, duplicate or consolidate tracks.

Waves founders Gilad Keren and Meir Shaashua share music as their first love. When establishing Waves, Gilad drew upon his experience as an accomplished sound engineer, having recorded and produced hits for major Israeli artists, while Meir had been a musician in successful bands.


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