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Calling keep takes

Calling keep takes

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Calling keep takes

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- During a recording session, you need to be able to keep track of all of your keep takes. You'll have lots of versions of every line of dialogue when you finish your recording session. In your edit, you don't want to have to go through every take of a session, and then hope to find the best take again. That would take far too much time. You knew the right ones when you heard it. So, during a session, when you're recording lines, an actor will usually give you at least three different versions of each line during each take. Give them notes between takes, and listen again. When you hear what you want, let your actor, an assistant, and/or your sound engineer know. They'll mark which reading, in which take, you prefer. The sound engineer, or whoever's handling the recording, will usually save and deliver just your keep takes. But, if you want all of 'em, just tell 'em you want everything. But, make sure that you have a way, with your markings, to know which ones were your keep takes…

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