Dialog Tracklay & Editing Techniques Flashcards
What are some of the main responsibilities of a dialogue editor? (10)
Organising production audio and video. Smoothing transitions between shots. Recommend lines for ADR. Improving dialogue intelligibility. Removing unwanted noises. Verifying continuity of room tone. Replacing noisy dialogue. Syncing dialogue to picture. Separating SFX from dialogue track. Preparing dialogue tracks for pre-mix and final dub.
What are two common approaches often used to tracklay dialogue?
Checker Boarding and Split Tracking.
Is scrubbing video on an external monitor via a FireWire peripheral from playback within Pro Tools frame accurate?
No.
How can you accomplish frame accurate video scrubbing? (2)
Options > Scrub In Video Window.
Use a Video Satellite system.
What is the ‘Strip Silence’ command used for? (Command+U)
It analyses audio selections and removes any areas of silence, dividing the selection into smaller clips and removing the silent areas.
What is the ‘Strip Silence Separate’ command used for? (Command+U)
It analyses audio selections and separates the selected audio into clips with boundaries created by the same identical Strip Silence settings.
How may the ‘Strip Silence Extract’ command be used when Dialogue editing? (Command+U)
For extracting and adding room tone.
If the repeated clips pasted to fill a gap using ‘Repeat To Fill Selection’ sound a little cyclic, what can be done to minimise this effect?
By using the AudioSuite Reverse plug-in to reverse alternately pasted clips in the selection.
After dialogue editing is complete, how can the visual display of the edited dialogue be made easier to view?
Clip Groups can be created.
What is the difference between ‘Edit Lock’ and ‘Time Lock’?
Clips that are ‘Edit Locked’ cannot be edited or moved without warning.
Clips that are ‘Time Locked’ cannot be moved in time.
What is the only destructive editing tool in Pro Tools?
The Pencil tool.
Why may the Pencil tool be disabled when trying to edit an audio file on a sample level.?
When importing or linking to audio files directly associated with OMF/AAF sequences in Pro Tools.
Do NoNoise AudioSuite plug-ins support simultaneous stereo or multichannel processing?
No.
When using the Pencil tool, how can the best results be achieved? (2)
Limiting the editing to smoothing over a very small problem area.
Keep the fixes in character with the shape of the surrounding waveform.
What are some of the most common types of noise problems with production dialogue?
Lighting.
Air conditioning units.
Analogue noise floor.
Self-noise from equipment.
