Dialogue Editing

264 ADR
The ADR Recording Session
ADR sessions were once pretty standardized. You might loop in one studio
and record ADR-style in another, but the technology was predictably similar.
Today, the workfl ow in most serious ADR studios is fairly interchangeable
but the tools used can differ wildly.
Studio Technology
ADR call sheets
"Lost in Jordan"
Code in out Text
REB 3 •21 03:09:18:01 03:09:20:14 You're in the used TV business?
Ver 2 AC sync 00:00:02:13 INT car driving.
REB 3 •22 03:09:36:23 03:09:40:14 I was hoping for something a little bit more
Ver 2 AC sync 00:00:03:16 INT car driving.
romantic.
REB 3 •23 03:09:42:21 03:09:50:15 Maybe a trip to Las Vegas.
Ver 2 AC sync 00:00:07:19 INT car driving.
BEA 3•082
03:11:11:14 03:11:13:04 Thirty thousand dollars.
Ver 2
AC 00:00:01:15 INT car driving.
BEA 3•083
03:11:27:13 03:11:30:13 Take a left at the next corner.
Ver 2
AC 00:00:03:00 INT car driving.
BEA 3•084
03:11:36:19 03:11:39:02 (sigh, exhale)
Ver 2
AC 00:00:02:08 INT car driving.
Figure 15-5 An excerpt from an ADR call sheet generated by FileMaker Pro. Note
the additional information provided: version, whose call, duration, and scene
description.
At the top of the ADR studio food chain, you’ll fi nd dedicated controllers
such as Taker and SoundMaster that control the streamers, beeps, and monitors
as well as the record and safety functions. You’ll also fi nd automatic voice
slates that slug scene and take numbers into each soundfi le, and picture being
played on one of many types of nonlinear video recorder/player. Very few
studios still use tape or mag as their primary recording format, so the recorder
can be anything from Fairlight to Pyramix to Pro Tools.
At the other end of the ladder you’ll fi nd systems built entirely around Pro
Tools, in which beeps are prerecorded soundfi les the ADR engineer places in
the session prior to recording. Likewise, monitor switching is managed
through clever editorial preparation of the guide track. The picture may be
on tape or hard disk.