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Mixers: What are your Dialogue Editing Preferences?

I have just come to a new town and am editing dialogue for a good number of different mixers who have very different preferences in how they like their dialogue edited. I would lik …
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Removing background location music from documentary dialogue

Has anybody had experience of removing location music from documentary dialogue? A filmmaker has approached me to tackle an issue with broadcast rights on the music coming from a s …
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Imported dialog track distorting

I just imported the dialog audio from the QT video of this clip and for some reason the clip gets really distorted, but sounds fine on the actual QT video. I imported other SFX fil …
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Conceptualising possessed double-voice dialogue

I'm hitting a brick wall on a key bit of sound design on a show I'm working on. It's set in a magical fantasy world and the moment I'm having trouble with is when a mind control sp …
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Voiceover editing procedure - tips please.

Hi folks - and Happy New Year! I have been lurking around this fantastic site for a little while, but finally decided to ask a question. I am gaining some freelance experience in …
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When you are mixing dialogue with lots of BG noise…

...do you like to play the clip downward expanded and have the noise pop through when the dialogue comes up? or do you like to keep it all the same level and not downward expand …
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Rigging Microphones in Cars

what would one make a microphone rig for a car to record dialogues ? Which microphones are preferable for these situations and why ?
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Complexities Of Audio Cleanup

What would be the most optimum approach to cleaning Dialogue from a location Recording?
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How do you combine boom mic track with lav mic track for best dialog?

I don't where I heard this, but it seems that big guys tend to get best dialog result out of combining boom track and lav together, so I'm just wondering HOW? for instance, do you …
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Approaching dialogue recovery with clipped audio, what to do first? (DOCUMENTARY)

hi everyone, i am currently preparing the audio post process for a (low budget) documentary. the doc isn't finished and still needs a lot of work, but i was eager to see and hear …
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How to record an feature animation dialogue?

Hi guys, I've got an upcoming feature animation project, my part exactly is to record dialogue. Since I've never got any experience on animation, I did some research especially on …
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Game Dialogue Recording and Perspective

Hi All, Question for the game audio folks out there - I'm doing a playthrough of Deus Ex: Human Revolution now and noticing that a lot of the character voices sound very up close/ …
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DIA Editing At Reel Breaks

Hello everyone. This is the first time that I'm cutting sound on a feature film in a major way, so this the first time I'm really dealing with reel breaks. Generally when I'm cu …
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Volume automation in music between dialogues.

When, between the music track you need to insert speech -- be it voice over or dialogue -- how do you automate the music volume? How far do you go with levels? How quick? How's t …
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Dialogue Recording Levels

Got into a discussion with a teacher today about the proper level for recording audio, specifically dialogue. She was telling us that keeping it between -6 and -12 is what she does …

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