Audio Post Production for Film 101 - Dialog Editing pt.1

In this second tutorial I go over how to start dialog editing in Pro Tools for a narrative feature, short, or TV show. For part 1 I will focus on finding fill, transitions between clips, clip gain, aligning boom and lav mics, and other basic editing techniques. This will create a cohesive dialog track without destructive processing, which will be covered in part 2. 0:00 Intro 1:00 Story Drives Every Decision 2:16 Saving session as 3:03 Master fader and loudness monitoring 5:27 Default fade preferences 6:14 Track layout 7:04 Starting the scene 8:21 Removing the director’s voice 8:52 Finding room tone 9:18 Using strip silence to create room tone 12:02 Using fill paste with room tone 12:42 The wrong way to create room tone 13:44 Breaths in PFX 14:00 Good noise vs bad noise 14:30 Transitioning between different room tones 16:41 Equal gain vs equal power crossfade 17:42 Tone Shift between locations or scenes 18:02 Boom and lav example 1 18:48 Saving processing for a second pass 19:00 Removing noises with fill 20:45 Prelap cuts 21:45 Slipping edits for timing and rhythm 22:28 Boom and lav example 2 23:26 Phase align mics manually 25:44 Phase align mics automatically 27:09 Desynchronizing audio and video edits 27:32 Cutting on a transient to hide an edit 28:08 Cutting between locations and futzing 34:38 Cutting both sides of the call 34:47 Just a bunch of editing 35:54 Fixing sync issues by eyeballing it 38:01 More Phil 39:13 Carrying sound over a cut 39:33 Boom and lav...