DIALOGUE EDITING - SAT 01.03.08

I came into the labs at about 12pm until about 6:30pm on Saturday to clean up the dialogue that we have recorded so far, particularly the parts we recorded on Wednesday (27th).

We had several takes for many of the lines so I had to pick out the best take for each line. In some case this meant cutting up the takes and combining them i.e. picking out the best phrases and editing them together to sound natural. In most cases I chose the take which we agreed in the studio was the best one.

For the parts that needed to be synced to the video, they were recorded in the studio to the video and so were mostly quite well synced already. However, some of the phrases we slightly early or late (either due to actors not being able to the character's mouth movements clearly on the studio screen or because the takes with the best acting weren't necessarily the tightest ones sync-wise) and so needed to be split and adjusted to fit properly.

I also tidied up the Cubase project file and organised the dialogue into folder tracks so that they will be easier to mix and to avoid having to sort through takes later. For some phrases/lines I have kept a second (good) take on an 'Option' track in case the other members of the team think we need to use a different take to the one I've chosen.