ABSTRACT
ADR If the dialog is poorly recorded on set, it is possible to use a technique called ADR (automated dialog replacement) to rerecord an actor’s dialog in a studio setting. To ADR a scene, an actor enters a sound booth, watches a monitor with the fi nal cut of the movie rolling, and listens to the original recording from the set on a pair of headphones. The audio engineer will then cue up and repeatedly play each line that needs to be rerecorded one sentence at a time. The actor then recites the dialog to match the timing and emotional delivery of the original. Once the fi rst line is recorded, is in sync, and is properly performed, the actor can then move on to the next line until the problematic dialog has been replaced. Once this process is fi nished, the audio engineer must EQ (equalize), or change the tone of the recording and add reverb to match the tone of the room in which the scene takes place. This process yields excellent audio quality, but is very time consuming and expensive and sometimes still doesn’t match the original audio recorded on location.
