ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on workflow, and what happens to a track between picture edit and the mix. It also focuses on restoring lost sync for dialog. The chapter explores what dialog editing is really about: the ability to patch individual words—or even tiny syllables—together to make a seamless whole. A few older versions of some editing systems don't support scrubbing directly in the waveform. The shortest audio cross-fade in many nonlinear editors (NLEs) is two frames, or 60 ms—long enough to eliminate clicks, but much too long for precise dialog editing. Frame-based NLEs can't nudge edits to zero points because those points seldom line up against frame boundaries. The chapter discusses the approach to cutting dialog that appears in most NLE manuals and is taught in some film schools: look at the waveform, find a pause where it drops to zero, and edit during the silence.
