This new edition of the industry staple will help readers produce professional level dialogue tracks with the latest industry-proven techniques and insights. Emmy-award winning sound editor Korey Pereira continues the work of John Purcell, updating the material to reflect a more modern approach to the dialogue editing process.
This new edition of the industry staple will help readers produce professional level dialogue tracks with the latest industry-proven techniques and insights. Emmy-award winning sound editor Korey Pereira continues the work of John Purcell, updating the material to reflect a more modern approach to the dialogue editing process.
The text provides innovative solutions to common dialogue editing challenges such as room tone balancing, noise removal, perspective control, finding and using alternative takes, and even time management and postproduction politics. In this new edition, the Author incorporates the long list of new technologies that have become required parts of the dialogue editing process, as well as considering alternative workflows in distinction to more traditional “Hollywood” models. This edition also expands out from just feature film and explores the many ways that television programmes call for the same technologies and techniques.
The depth and scope of this book on dialogue editing make it the number one resource for professionals and students who want to master this essential element of editing.
Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Prefact to
the First Edition Acknowledgments
1. What Is Dialogue Editing?
2. The Story
of Production Sound
3. Film Sound Workflows: Then and Now
4. On the Set
5.
The Sound Department
6. A Quick Look at Picture Editing
7. Moving the Film
from Picture to Sound
8. Working with Picture
9. The Spotting Session
10.
Setting Up Your Editing Universe
11. Editing Dialogue Tracks
12. Image,
Depth, and Perspective
13. Dialogue Editing Tips and Tricks
14. Dealing with
Noise
15. Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) 16. Managing Your Time
17.
Editing Production Sound for Documentaries
18. When the Picture Changes
19.
Preparing for the Mix
20. The Dialogue Premix Afterword Appendix A: Dialogue
Editing in a Nutshell Appendix B: Track Template for a Typical Small Film's
Dialogue Glossary Further Reading and Resources Index
Korey Pereira, MPSE, is an award-winning dialogue editor. He received a Primetime Emmy for his work on Stranger Things Season 4 and a Golden Reel for Prey. In 2023 he was elected to a second term on the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) board of directors. He is also an assistant professor of practice and audio area head at the University of Texas at Austins Department of Radio, Television and Film. In 2024 he was named one of the Texas Ten, the Texas Exes most prestigious teaching award. His writing credits include content for the MPSE Wavelength magazine, Pro Sound Effects, and Production Expert.
