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Optimizing the dialog in the first pass - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Pro Tools: Audio for Film and Video
Optimizing the dialog in the first pass
As you work through your first dialog pass, sometimes you'll find that some of the dialog regions come in way too quiet from the original OMF. You may need to use the AudioSuite Gain plug-in to get them in the same ballpark as the other regions. In this movie, I'm going to show you a special way to do this. You can maintain handles for later crossfading. So this region here is a little bit quieter than some of the other dialog regions. Let's take a listen. (Character 2: And that adds ten seats to the theater. And that adds ten seats.) Okay, so here's how we're going to do this. We're going to copy this region down to our Edit track first. Use the Grabber tool, F8, and I'm going to Ctrl+Option, which is Windows+Alt on a PC and drag this down to one of our Edit tracks. That way we held control so it didn't slide left to right and by holding Option, we copied it down. Next, what we're going to do is pull out some handles on this region. So I'm going to get the Trimmer tool and pull out a…
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Organizing the dialog tracks5m
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Optimizing the dialog in the first pass4m 30s
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Using room tone4m 10s
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Creating fades to smooth out audio edits5m 4s
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Understanding sound effects, ambiences, and backgrounds7m 12s
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Sweetening and hard effects6m 52s
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Processing tips for sound effects8m 46s
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Bringing emotion to the mix with music tracks5m 33s
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Leveraging clip-based gain in Pro Tools 102m 51s
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Exploring AudioSuite enhancements in Pro Tools 102m 57s
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