From the course: Introduction to Video Sound Design

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Editing dialogue and production sound

Editing dialogue and production sound

From the course: Introduction to Video Sound Design

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Editing dialogue and production sound

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- [Instructor] We'll begin our deeper look at the post-production sound, by talking about how the process of editing dialog and production sound works. Let's explore what goes in the finessing these components. First, dialog editors need to select the sources that make up each take. In other words, specific takes used for dialog in the picture edit, were chosen by the director, editor and producer, based on the quality of the acting and camera work in those takes. That said, each take is made up of several microphones all at the same time. We're talking about a boom mic, lavalier mics and maybe even spot mics that captures the performance for each take. Now when the dialog editor goes in and edits these takes and selects the sources, they might need to use a combination of some of these mics but not all of them at once. A good dialog editor will weed out sources that are not giving anything good to the sound, in order to optimize the sound during the scene. A good dialog editor will…

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