"A successful mix is not that you notice is the one who is THE good, one whose film needed. If the frames of the film are accurate, neat image, then the sound must go in the same direction, but the best sound is not necessarily the cleanest. If the picture is a little "trash", the sound must be gross, why not just limited technically. One is then led to favor the direct sound, to forget his pride, chasing sides "technicards" (...). The soundtrack to retell the story, convey emotion, be in perfect harmony with the image.

The biggest thing for me is to pull the emotion of the viewer, THE brief realize it takes to mix film ... "

(Source: http://franck.ernould.perso.sfr.fr/groult.html )

You did not know probably not, but you have necessarily heard his sound work for very many years. This Friday, January 28, Francois Groult is gone, suddenly. He joined Maurice Pialat, he was the mixer and sound engineer of record. Tripling Césarisé (Le Grand Bleu, Joan of Arc, and the diptych Mesrine), he worked for a long time to extend the sound aesthetic of French cinema. Working for the biggest names (Maurice Pialat, who had become his friend, but Brian De Palma, André Téchiné, Diane Kurys, Jean Becker ...), this passionate and its technology was able to follow the development of techniques while never without neglecting the aesthetic side and the imposing dramatic works each more singular than the one before the other.

You have discovered on video, on DTS-Phile, upon delivery of the Cesar for Best Sound for Mesrine in Jean-Francois Richet, while we organized an interview with Alexandre Widmer (see this page ). François Groult also worked to create the AFSI (French Association for his picture) association which aims to develop relationships, exchange information, discuss methods, help solve common problems, monitor progress of the technology and organize meetings between the various stakeholders in the audio chain. Its purpose is to promote and communicate the importance of the contribution of creative and technical professionals in the film and audiovisual production and in related media. It is this association, we know well, which yesterday released the announcement of his death, which plunged the members and all industry professionals in great sadness.

We have not had the chance to meet him in person, but it is a series of email exchanges this summer about a project we are currently going up, which allowed us to discover a demanding artist and integrity, of great wisdom of soul, and an unwavering passion for the world of sound and its techniques. His career, impressive, he has forged, sustained, a true image of sound in the French cinema, image to which he contributed in an exemplary manner, that will endure for generations, of Pialat to Richet, of Téchiné to Smithson, of Besson Pradal.

All our thoughts are with his family, colleagues and friends, to whom we partner.

VIDEO CESARS 2009, HIS BEST FOR "MESRINE"

François Groult speaking to present the work done on the two sound films Richet.

Interviews with François Groult

- By Frank Ernould at this address . "Who but a blender theater veteran can speak knowingly of multichannel systems, the return to room, or the creative input of a sound engineer on a film? François Groult is one of them. "

- On Dolby.com, about Joan of Arc by Luc Besson, at this address , where he highlights the contribution of Dolby Digital Surround EX nascent.

Photo of the evening of the Caesars in 2009, with, from left to right, Gerard Hardy, Loïc Prian, Alexandre Widmer, Jean Minondo, François Groult, Hervé Buirette. His team, which won the Cesar for Best Sound for both strands Mesrine.

COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY (source: imdb.com)

2011 The Hunters (sound re-recording mixer) (post-production)

2010 A French Life (TV movie) (sound mixer)

2010 The emotional Anonymous (sound re-recording mixer)

2010 Draws up ... (documentary) (sound mixer)

2010 People's Names (sound re-recording mixer)

2010 The head fallow (sound re-recording mixer)

Imogen McCarthery 2010 (sound re-recording mixer)

2010 The Marquise of Shadows (TV movie) (sound re-recording mixer)

The collection's 2010 crisis bites (TV series short) (sound re-recording mixer - 1 episode)

- The best friend of man (2010) (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 Farewell creature (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 Pigalle at night (TV series) (sound re-recording mixer - 8 episodes)

- Episode # 1.7 (2009) (sound re-recording mixer)

- Episode # 1.8 (2009) (sound re-recording mixer)

- Episode # 1.5 (2009) (sound re-recording mixer)

- Episode # 1.6 (2009) (sound re-recording mixer)

- Episode # 1.3 (2009) (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 Man bedside (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 Wolf (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 Divorces! (Sound re-recording mixer)

Harragas 2009 (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 Pink and Black (sound re-recording mixer)

Douce France 2009 (TV movie) (sound mixer, sound re-recording mixer)

Moloch Tropical 2009 (TV movie) (sound)

2009 Nothing Personal (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 The True Story of Puss in Boots (sound re-recording mixer)

2009 Love roundtrip (TV movie) (sound mixer)

2008 Pregnancy and buttons (short) (sound mixer)

2008 Clara Sheller (TV series) (sound mixer - 6 episodes)

- The door of the rickety tower (2008) (sound mixer)

- The mystery of the ponytail (2008) (sound mixer)

- Chrysanthemums for Bernard (2008) (sound mixer)

- A woman can hide another (2008) (sound mixer)

- Small music of lies (2008) (sound mixer)

2008 Vilaine (sound re-recording mixer)

2008 Bouquet final (sound re-recording mixer)

2008 Public Enemy No. 1 (sound re-recording mixer)

2008 Death Instinct (sound mixer)

2008 Made in Italy (sound re-recording mixer)

Disco 2008 (sound re-recording mixer)

2008 Love Me (sound re-recording mixer)

2008 The seventh juror (TV movie) (sound mixer)

2008 Modern Love (sound re-recording mixer)

2008 Welcome to the Sticks (sound re-recording mixer)

2007 The Cry (documentary) (sound re-recording mixer)

Hangman 2007 (TV movie) (sound mixer)

After 2007 it (sound)

2007 I hate other people's children (sound mixer)

2007 Dancing with him (sound mixer)

2007 Counter Investigation (sound re-recording mixer)

2007 Conversations with My Gardener (sound mixer)

2007 I am a lover (short) (sound mixer)

2006 This is a beautiful city at night (sound mixer)

2006 Made in Jamaica (documentary) (sound re-recording mixer)

2006 Immature (short) (sound mixer)

2006 Piccolo, Saxo and Company (sound mixer)

2006 Happy House (sound re-recording mixer)

2006 Murderers (sound mixer)

2006 Camping (sound mixer)

2006 Locked Out (sound mixer)

A year 2006 (sound mixer)

The shutters 2006 (short) (sound editor, sound mixer)

2006 Four stars (sound mixer)

2005 Never Say ... anything! (Sound re-recording mixer)

2005 Virgil (sound re-recording mixer)

2005 Camping at the farm (sound mixer)

2005 Second Plan (short) (sound mixer)

2005 Children (sound)

2005 Bab el web (sound mixer)

2005 Chok-Dee (sound mixer)

2005 Man to Man (sound re-recording mixer)

2005 Prozac tango (short) (sound mixer)

Play the Game 2005 (short) (sound mixer)

2004 Do not quit! (Sound mixer)

2004 The Syrian Bride (sound re-recording mixer)

2004 Sunday (short) (sound mixer)

2004 San Antonio (sound mixer)

O heroic 2004 (sound re-recording mixer)

2004 Clan (sound mixer)

2004 Albert is bad (sound mixer)

2004 Bad Seed (short) (sound mixer)

2003 Rabbit full (short) (sound mixer)

2003 I left! (Sound re-recording mixer)

The 2003 Bear Country (short) (sound mixer)

2003 Feelings (sound, sound mixer)

Any first time in 2003 (short) (sound mixer)

2003 Mariners lost (sound mixer)

2003 Home delivery (sound mixer)

Gamma Project 2003 (short) (sound mixer)

2003 Chops (sound re-recording mixer)

2003 The Headless Man (short) (sound mixer)

2003 A son (sound mixer)

2003 Who Killed Bambi? (Sound re-recording mixer)

Sansa 2003 (sound)

The 2003 Beuze (sound mixer)

2002 Life Kills Me (sound mixer)

Ginostra 2002 (sound mixer)

2002 The paths of the wadi (sound mixer)

2002 The Red Siren (sound mixer)

2002 Irene (sound mixer)

The 2002 war in Paris (sound mixer)

2002 Femme Fatale (sound mixer)

2002 Fierce (sound mixer)

2002 The girls mistrusts person (sound mixer)

2002 Philanthropic (sound mixer)

Madame Sans-Gene 2002 (TV movie) (sound mixer)

2002 The lady in swimsuit (sound mixer)

2002 Forever My (short) (sound re-recording mixer)

2002 Tour (short) (sound mixer)

2001 Behind the Sun (sound)

2001 Bella ciao (sound mixer)

2001 Of love (sound mixer)

2001 Art (delicate) of seduction (sound mixer)

2001 Theresa and Leo (TV movie) (sound mixer)

2001 The Closet (sound mixer)

2000 Exit (sound mixer)

2000 The Dancer (sound)

2000 Vatel (sound)

2000 Taxi 2 (sound)

2000 Gunblast Vodka (sound re-recording mixer)

1999 First Snow (TV movie) (sound mixer)

1999 Joan of Arc (ADR engineer, foley engineer, sound mixer, sound re-recording mixer)

1999 First climber (TV movie) (sound mixer)

1999 The creator (sound mixer)

1999 The greatest country in the world (sound)

Hanuman 1998 (sound)

1998 Barrio (post-production sound)

1998 Louise (Take 2) (sound re-recording mixer)

1998 Black Cat White Cat (sound re-recording mixer)

1998 The Dinner Game (sound mixer)

1998 Women's cosmonaut (sound)

1998 Central do Brasil (sound)

1998 No happy ending (short) (sound mixer)

1997 ... A pure air (sound)

1997 100% Arabica (sound mixer)

1997 Post coitum animal triste (sound mixer)

1997 The divine pursuit (sound)

The palms of 1997 Mr. Schutz (sound mixer)

1997 dress required (sound mixer)

The 1997 city whose prince is a child (TV movie) (sound mixer)

1997 I Got a Woman (short) (sound mixer)

1997 Everything Must Go (sound)

1996 Tykho Moon (sound)

1996 Bernie (sound mixer)

1996 Jaguar (sound mixer)

1996 Full speed (sound mixer)

1996 The eighth day (sound)

1996 Gorilla, my friend (short) (sound mixer)

1995 Happiness is in the field (sound)

1995 Total Eclipse (post-synch and foley mixer, sound)

The garçu 1995 (sound)

1995 The Crime of Monsieur Stil (TV movie) (sound)

1995 Someone Else's America (sound)

1995 There was once a country (sound mixer)

1995 Jefferson in Paris (sound re-recordist)

1995 The King of Paris (sound)

1995 Conjugal love (sound)

1994 Leon (sound re recording mixer)

1994 peacekeeper (sound)

1994 Wild Reeds (sound)

In 1994 little pleasures (sound)

Captain X 1994 (short) (sound mixer)

1993 Toxic Affair (sound mixer)

1993 My Favorite Season (sound)

Mayrig 1993 (TV series) (sound mixer)

At 1992 tomorrow (sound mixer)

1992 Max & Jeremie (sound)

1992 Olivier, Olivier (sound)

The revolt of 1992 children (sound)

1992 All concurrent sentences (sound)

1992 588 Street paradise (sound mixer)

1992 Lapse of Memory (sound)

1991 Keys to Paradise (sound)

1991 Van Gogh (sound re-recording mixer)

The other 1991 (foley recordist)

The 1991 fire (sound)

Farendj 1990 (sound)

1990 La Baule-les-Pins (sound)

1990 Tom and Lola (sound)

The 1989 wood black (sound)

1989 Roselyne and the Lions (sound assistant)

1989 The soule (sound)

1988 Camille Claudel (sound mixer)

The 1988 student (sound mixer)

The 1988 plot (sound)

1988 The Big Blue (sound mixer)

The new 1987 cheats (sound mixer)

1987 The red skirt (sound engineer)

1987 Under the Sun of Satan (sound mixer)

1987 A man in love (sound recordist)

1987 Games of fireworks (sound re-recording mixer)

1986 Charlotte for Ever (sound re-recording mixer)

1986 Manon des sources (assistant sound mixer)

1986 Black and white (sound mixer)

1986 831, uncertain journey (sound mixer)

1986 Jean de Florette (assistant sound mixer)

1986 Too late Balthazar (sound mixer)

1986 Scene of the Crime (sync sound engineer)

1986 / I Douce France (sound technician)

The 1983 Boulugres (dialogue editor)

1980 Shadow of a game (sound)

1980 Hey! You hear me? (Sound mixer)

Unstoppable, last canning recent Tony Scott, is preparing to emerge on Blu-Ray at the Fox. Festival finds visual (and audible), editing sports and panting, the film immediately stands out as a title that takes full extent by the capacity of Blu-Ray, especially when you know that Fox will offer a track its encoded in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Scheduled for February 15 in zone A (block area), national edition will be soon, a few weeks later logically. We invite you to discover, in English, the film sound profile video produced by our colleagues soundworkscollection:

SYNOPSIS

Since the tragic death of their father during a fire, the two brothers McCaffrey did not follow the same path. True to family tradition, Stephen, the eldest, became one of the most respected firefighters in Chicago. Meanwhile, Brian, the youngest, bourlinguait small work odd jobs. However, he also decided to take the torch. On entering the company, he is greeted warmly by John Adcox, a firefighter friend of his father, but watched with suspicion by Stephen, who doubts his vocation. Tired of this distrust, the young man made ​​off with the detective Donald Rimgale.

Classic from the early 90s, Backdraft has haunted many moviegoers and then cinéphages adolescents. One subject never treated before, signed a score by Hans Zimmer memorable, stunning visual effects in their time ... Nearly twenty years later, still meets this efficiency, while providing a psychological perspective and narrative altogether obsolete but whose bases expressive are still as carriers.

CODEC VIDEO: VC-1 SMPTE
1080p
FORMAT: 2.35:1 (proposed opening of the film 4/3)
Universal (France), availability: January 11, 2011

The past, surprised, or rather astonished to find that the generic displays an image framed by 4/3 (with two black bars at the side but unexplained presence justified ...), the film finally begins with the ratio 16/9 and 2.35 Scope. Already available in HD-DVD without special verve, Backdraft has a Blu-Ray transfer of good quality, which strives to restore the warmth of each image and the color temperature deliberately ocher, which bases the bulk of visual style of the film. In this sense, colors, and color is accurate everywhere show the intentions of Ron Howard, even offering an extended color ever seen so far, including skin tones, slightly too saturated. Otherwise, the image displays into its own silver, but has a level of detail and finish of the definition somewhat limited. The master does not seem to have been renovated in proper form, even if the transfer HD manages to draw out of the game The image shows sometimes poorly defined, granular, and appears to have a certain simplicity, without disappoint. The contrasts, however, cut each scene carefully particularly valuable even if they sometimes lack that extra dimension that would have been doing all the difference. Besides some dust-film and other small tasks, the image is stable, solid and detailed evidence, if any were needed, that even if all could be further improved, it is nonetheless the best incarnation of video Ron Howard film to date, especially when we know that the DVD edition of the most widely distributed around the world was limited to 4/3.

DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1: English. French, etc. ... talian are available in DTS 5.1 (754.75 Kbps)
24 Bit, 48 kHz Audio Bitrate: 4373 kbps (average)
OFFSET: no

Two years before the arrival of DTS audio codec in theaters (1993), and a year before the marketing of Dolby Digital (1992), Backdraft was born. Ron Howard has managed to find the greatest experts of his time, some (if not all) would help to harden the tone and sound to participate in the development of sound film in North American subsequent years. So, Randy Thom, Gary Rydstrom Gary Summers and especially (credited as Sound Designer and Mixer) were recruited to compose the soundscape of the film so sophisticated. Backdraft was presented theatrically in Dolby Stereo, and this edition Blu-Ray, as was the case previously on DVD, has made a multi-channel 5.1, obviously remixed elements from the moose, which were extrapolated and re-enacted . If the main stages impose only a relative noise, and have a sound set up mainly frontal and stéréphonique, always dynamic and open, rendering the dialogues of excellent craftsmanship, it is however the sequences fire that take maximum advantage of multi-channel sound. Logically, the dynamics of three good climbs notches, and the sound space tridimensional widens dramatically and agile, while offering a vivid contrast and contrasted with the rest of the film. The unforgettable sound design by Gary Rydstrom, who worked at acoustically customize the fire, which moves in space so animal sounds with raucous, underhanded, liquids and "fans" will show rave. Every breath is seen projected obediently to the five cardinal points of the installation, supported by an extensive use of the subwoofer, which delivers a serious under-stretched most of the time, powerfully expressive. The fire initially occupies a presence on the center channel, before being multiplexed and ventilated on the front left side and back on the scene, which has a volume level often surprising, and intelligibility flawless. This study proposes a crosstalk, delivering an amazing channel separation, which led to the creation of a soundstage both wide, detailed, realistic and obvious.

Sounds mobility poses no trouble when the action sequences, which provide a dynamic incendiary coupled with a surprisingly detailed spectral rendering and crystalline. The volume released back on the scene, we would have liked more participatory on the other sequences, appears finally to his best advantage, and describes the falling objects in all kinds, yelling / breathing flames, the crackling structures and movement of smoke so often circular and panoramic. During these spectacular fire sequences, the soundscape is transparent and shows active, displaying an undeniable physiological character, describing arabesques and sounds that evolve over the movement of characters on the screen. Write a real sound, with very specific acoustic details, which reflect the rigor and inventiveness of the work of sound engineers. The usual sound signatures of Gary Rydstrom show themselves evident, and managing the global spatialization audible even exceeds that of many contemporary production. The frequency response area breathable medium, while externalizing readily on the high end, which remains sharp and bright, particlièrement directional and open when its "presence" is required.

The codec DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 digs away with the clear position DTS 5.1 mi flow of VF, offering more substantial texture and a spatial and volumetric rendering of the dynamic incommensurate. Thickness and directional sounds are thus optimized in all circumstances, making the HD lossless audio track almost suffocating multichannel activity, where required. Finally, the DTS-HD track perfectly reproduces the sound environment typical of the 90s, highlighting each creative intent, and providing all these sounds created, edited and mixed by expert hands full range of expressive potential. Far from the anthology certainly improved on many areas, but overall strong impact and presence, this soundtrack is returned sees so clear and ambitious, with the volume, agility, cloth and sound material to spare. The surprise is undeniable, as long as we pass on some sequences unconvincing. Overall, music, effects and atmospheres emerge with a rather astonishing efficiency, to which the codec DTS-HD Master Audio breathes really startling acoustic dimension.

• Introduction by Ron Howard (SD)
• Deleted Scenes (SD, 43:10)
• Igniting the Story (SD, 15:00)
• Bringing Together the Team (SD, 19:09)
• The Explosive Stunts (SD, 14:41)
• Creating the Villain: The Fire (SD, 12:51)
• Firemen Real Life: Real Life Stories (SD, 8:58)

Some supplements, such as content offered in PiP, are absent here, but is present on the show American edition of the film.

"The box Star Wars Blu-ray will contain six feature films Star Wars action using the best presentation of the image and audio. "George Lucas

Our you announced there some months, but the ultimate confirmation appeared just yesterday, live from CES in Las Vegas. So, here comes the news that everyone was waiting with great impatience. It is confirmed validated, official ... formalized etc. At a recent convention in Orlando (held in August 2010), George Lucas announced in person the birth, Blu-Ray, the saga of the most famous of history of cinema: Star Wars. Episodes 1-6 will be presented by Fox in September 2011, in an unprecedented video quality, maximum, with full optimization of the image and sound. That is to say: 1080p video masters restored, proposed soundtrack in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (in 6.1 or 7.1 Why Discrete?) Refounded (24 Bit, probably reworked and remixed). A real first in the history of video editing of these films: they came in DTS, which is offered in more lossless audio (so no loss). Unpublished anthology ... and simply wonderful. So far, the only version of the movie that circulated in DTS format was released in the theaters. Never before home video any medium whatsoever was presented first or second trilogy in this format. Repaired error, therefore, in less than a year. Another important detail: each disc is overseen by George Lucas himself, and each film will be granted a video bitrate of up to 40 Mbps willingly on a Blu-Ray 50 GB

"Blu-ray is definitely the best way to see Star Wars at home in high definition quality pristine. The picture quality and sound films has never been better. "

Supplements unpublished, of course, will make their appearance in the heart of this package which should be reflected, soon, leads all sales, not hesitating, at the same time, to instantly generate a new trading record. To quote the creator, Lucas, "I wish to say that Blu-Ray landed this year ... but they will arrive next year." A new literally deafening, but leaves a bitter taste, and an observation: now that the saga is announced and its release date confirmed, that he remains on Blu-Ray to generate both waiting (s)? To this day, if we know anything yet e content of supplements, a figure was announced: 30 hours. This is the amount of total hourly supplements, presented on three different disks. Three editions are asleep and already planned: one for each trilogy (original trilogy and "prequels"), and an overall editin offer the entire saga.