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Post Production Sound Question
- Thread starter Lordmanji
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Where are you editing the film? At home, or in a studio? I would hire (or find for free) a sound designer / editor willing to work in their own home...if they take the job, their own home computer suite should be able to handle the job--you of course would send them the rough cut/s for them to design off of. I assume when you say sound, you're talking about sound design, foley and ADR and such correct? Well, you should definitely be as much a part of that as you can...but you don't need to be there for all the little foley and design...
And of course you and this person will want to sit down for the final mix of dialog and music...make sure it's mixed properly.
If you're talking about incidental and soundtrack music...that's a similar deal. The musician will most likely have a home suite or office that can handle everything. You send them the rough cut, they write the music....and send you the file which hopefully you can drop into your timeline and matches properly.
Hope I helped.
And of course you and this person will want to sit down for the final mix of dialog and music...make sure it's mixed properly.
If you're talking about incidental and soundtrack music...that's a similar deal. The musician will most likely have a home suite or office that can handle everything. You send them the rough cut, they write the music....and send you the file which hopefully you can drop into your timeline and matches properly.
Hope I helped.
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The first thing that you should learn about is the audio post process. Very briefly...
The production dialog is cleaned up.
The dialog tracks are edited - audio from the unused/alternate takes replace inaudible/poor performances, etc.
ADR is performed for sections of dialog which cannot be saved.
Dialog stem is put together - Room tones + production dialog + ADR are matched and balanced.
Foley, Sound FX and ambiences are edited and spotted.
Music is spotted and edited.
Stems are created.
The project is mixed (re-recorded).
At the "big budget" level there are specialists who do each process, at the indie level it could be a on-man-band (like yours truly) or a very small team (when I have the budget).
If you have the "big budget" your project will be edited in various audio editing suites and the mix will be done in a theatre-like sound stage, at the indie level you'll be probably be editing and mixing in the same room.
So you will select your supervising sound editor/sound designer based upon your budget.
The production dialog is cleaned up.
The dialog tracks are edited - audio from the unused/alternate takes replace inaudible/poor performances, etc.
ADR is performed for sections of dialog which cannot be saved.
Dialog stem is put together - Room tones + production dialog + ADR are matched and balanced.
Foley, Sound FX and ambiences are edited and spotted.
Music is spotted and edited.
Stems are created.
The project is mixed (re-recorded).
At the "big budget" level there are specialists who do each process, at the indie level it could be a on-man-band (like yours truly) or a very small team (when I have the budget).
If you have the "big budget" your project will be edited in various audio editing suites and the mix will be done in a theatre-like sound stage, at the indie level you'll be probably be editing and mixing in the same room.
So you will select your supervising sound editor/sound designer based upon your budget.
sound studio can make a wonderful effect for your film. sound post edit is a hard work, need sorts of sound effect to reflect film content. Environment condition is also important, otherwise you cann't get a clean background and too much noise will produce on the mixdown track.