Swedish Film & TV Production Company Pioneers European Adoption of iZotope RX 4 Advanced Audio Repair System

Swedish Film & TV Production Company Pioneers European Adoption of iZotope RX 4 Advanced Audio Repair System 20 October 2014

RX is the plug-in that makes the biggest difference in sound quality on our projects, especially on projects with difficult production circumstances - be it because of location or budget. RX sets us apart from those facilities that dont have it, so says Jakob Myrman, Sound Designer at Sofo, Stockholm-based TV, film and radio production company, Lillasyster. Myrman was talking after the facility's decision to adopt RX 4 Advanced, the latest version of an Emmy Award winning audio repair toolkit developed by Massachusetts-based iZotope, Inc. to address the specific needs of TV and film editors.

iZotope's RX software system transforms flawed audio into pristine, usable material by removing noises, distortions, reverb, and other common audio problems. Launched this September, RX 4 and RX 4 Advanced incorporate significant new workflow-optimizing functionality, leaving more time for creativity in audio and video editing. For anyone in audio post production, broadcast, dialogue editing and mixing, independent filmmaking, or music production, RX 4 can make poorly recorded audio intelligible and ready for primetime.

Established in 2005, Lillasyster is a production company that supplies content for television, web, radio and cinema distribution across Sweden. The company supports every production stage from pre-production to online and delivery of both pictures and sound. We ve been using RX for around a year, mainly for general noise reduction, explains Jakob Myrman. We use the dialogue De-noiser as insert on dialogue-buses and destructive on regions with the De-noiser module. My favourite though is the De-clipper, which is like black magic! Extreme clipping can be turned into high quality audio really easily.

The decision to upgrade to RX 4 was simple. I m really excited about the Ambience Match capabilities of this new system. As a TV and film editor, the ability to create fill in no-time is absolutely amazing, explained Myrman.

RX saves the day for a Swedish feature documentary

Recently, Lillasyster mixed a feature documentary which was mainly shot on a compact digital camera with no lavs, booms or ADR. Jakob Myrman reports that if it wasnt for iZotope's RX audio toolkit it probably wouldnt have been possible to play the feature in a cinema theatre. This was partly due to noise levels but also because important parts of the film's audio where totally distorted.

There was one specific interview that was very important for the story which was particularly distorted, explains Myrman. The producer asked early on if I thought they needed to cut the scene out of the movie and I told him I d do my best. The results where mind-blowing - we used RX 3 De-clipper and you wouldnt know it had ever been distorted. RX 3 enabled the director to tell the story that she wanted despite a lot of quality issues. The RX suite pretty much saved the story.

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