Dialogue Editing

110 GETTING STARTED ON DIALOGUE EDITING
Figure 9-2 A dialogue layout template.
quit one reel’s session to access another. I think this is a bad idea. For background
or SFX editors, there are some worthwhile reasons to work this way.
After all, if you’re building the backgrounds for a scene that takes place at a
location visited many times throughout the fi lm, it’s nice to be able to cut and
paste between reels. Effects editors, too, can benefi t from having the timeline
of the entire fi lm before them.
But dialogue editing issues are local, not global across the whole fi lm. There’s
rarely a need to steal sounds from another scene, and even when you do it’s
not hard to fi nd the fi le and import it. I organize my work into one session
per reel. Here are some reasons:
Short sessions are quicker to work with, they load faster, and they
make the computer happier.