Dialogue Editing

334 TRACK TEMPLATE FOR A TYPICAL SMALL FILM’S DIALOGUE
Initial Tracks Initial Source Audio Format Comments
PFX A → D Blank for
now
For SFX
1 → 4
Blank for
now
ADR A → D + Blank for now;
later you’ll add
mono or twomicrophone
fi les from the
ADR recording
sessions
Mono Production effects are used to
sync sounds from the fi eld
recordings that you want to
separate from the dialogue,
either for use in the inter national
mix or for better mix control.
Mono/stereo Used for all nondialogue elements,
such as temporary music
and SFX, removed from the
OMF, so that SFX and music
editors can retrieve them without
entering your session.
Mono or dualmono
(and
some stereo
elements if
you use ADR
tracks for
group loop)
Used for holding ADR. The
number of tracks depends on the
ADR complexity of your fi lm.
Dial X, Y, Z Blank for now Mono Known as “X tracks”; used
dur ing ADR editing to hold lines
that have been replaced and
completely edited. A dialogue
track holds a tone fi ll that
matches a replaced line on an X
track so that the re recording
mixer can conveniently A/B
between the original line and
the ADR line.