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Such a great video for mid/starters. Thank you so so much Thomas, can't thank you enough. I am facing towards my first post of an indie feature film and I'm scared, videos like this really take that fear away. Best wishes for you in the future

For an action movie like John Wick, I know you said you guys ended up using a ton of nat sounds. Do you just leave all of those efforts and hand to hand combat sounds on the dialogue tracks or do you split them out to pfx? Ultimately I feel like it should be mixer’s preference but I’ve heard horror stories about stems having to be particular ways for streaming services. Any insight?

wow !! amazing tutorial!! Good Job

Hi Thom, I follow your channel from The beginning. I really apreciatte your work. I think it would be awesome if you made a vídeo about creating/mixing MnE, and related workflows. I understand that maybe it is not your especiality/what you do The most. But i am dure that you could bring us some light on The subject. Sorry for my worst english. Xoxoxox

love your videos!! i have a mediocre mic and noisy room for pop music and this is super helpful <3

Have you tried Vocalign?

I can't thank you enough for this series. Learned a ton. You just made a lot of lives better, this is really generous of you (: Subscribed instantly, looking forward to check your other content out. All the best!

4:45 Tonal Gain: Adjusts types of sounds with a clear melody and defined pitch, such as musical instruments, vocals, other musical sounds, hums or background noises with a fixed pitch (like fans, transformers, or electrical hums), as long as the sound maintains a stable, clear pitch and allows adjustment through Tonal Gain.

I’m an audio engineer, live and studio mixing. Started having an interest in dialog editing with RX. Find it fascinating.

how so you preview modules in the module chain. I can't hit play and hear what it does. In the module chain three also no preview button. So do you always have to render it in, then listen, and probably undo and tweak? Thanks!

Thanks Thomas.... Could you do a vdo about pull up and pull down in protools...how .when to do such tools..how handle with frame rate isssues...with all sessions.etc

Another question that I’ve heard unclear answers on/no one ever talks about and would love your thoughts is when you have a scene where the dialogue starts a while into the scene, or perhaps you have a large gap in the middle of the scene with no talking, are you expected (as Dx editor) to fill all of that space, or can you just slowly fade in and out close to where the lines start? I am referring to scenes where there will be other elements like music, or maybe it’s an action scene that cuts constantly. Or is the answer to just always fill that way it is there if the mixer needs it and let them decide? Thanks as always!

Hi Thomas! At what level are your speakers calibrated? For Dolby 6 it is 85 dB SPL, but in my small room that results in my mix being way too quiet. Do you use a different level for a near-field monitor setup? Thanks so much for sharing all this knowledge :)

Thank you! You are a gem! I am learning all i can about filmmaking and i have learned so much about audio editing from you. Just wanted you to know i am very grateful to have this information for free. Bless you ❤

Sync is out

@27:20 - There you go. Train to be fast and efficient. Know how to get into the bigger details. 98 percent of your work is going to be fast and efficient. However, I still don't use chains even in fast and efficient.

"Not all clicks are bad". Me and two friends had a discussion about clicks in the french movie Anatomy of a Fall. In the beginning there's a scene with a journalist interviewing the principal character, she is drinking wine and have a few mouth clicks. Her husband is in the upper floor with loud music and I think hammering fixing the roof. My friends told that those clicks were an error and I said, that those clicks were natural from her mouth. We dont arrived to an agreement 😂😂😂

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Thank you so much for this! I used to be one of those that did batch processing and I always felt like I didn't deserve to be called a sound editor. Will start being surgical with my edits. One question though, apart from clicks, there are some wet/saliva sounds that is sometimes embedded into the speech of some voice overs I receive, what is your advice in processing those?

Thanks a lot for these videos, Thomas. I may be a little late but I wanted to ask you, how are you working on Grid mode but being able to do cuts and fades as if you were working on Slip mode? for example in 30:00

u need that preamp to get rid of cheap interface's noise floor

i'm currently editing a short that was shot with a noisy 16mm film camera. I've got RX but i've decided to strip out all the fill. I think i'm doing the right thing but i'd be interested to see how you do it one day.

Hey Thomas, just joined as a member but have been watching your videos for a while now. Thank you so much for this value. You rock and I cannot state how much I appreciate you teaching us all! I couldn't make this stream sadly, but my biggest question with dialogue editing that I cannot find an answer anywhere is: when cutting two shots that have obviously mismatched room tone (think dialogue at same level, but two totally different noise floors), how do you solve this without noise reduction? I hear all the time that most mixers don't want the DE to do noise reduction, so how do you present this to the mixer professionally so they know you didn't just get lazy but you made the edit work the best you could? I have tried long fades to build up the the energy as John Purcell states in his book but you can still hear the edit. I know this isn't black and white but I think it'd be cool if you did a stream or short video on cutting two clips that just don't match. Thanks as always and looking forward to more content!

Thanks for the feedback about Absentia DX Thomas. Another way of using the Air Tone Generator is by selecting the dialogue sentences (very tight) one by one. That keeps the rest of the original fill and also produces different results in ATG, depending on the context. You might also want to try different handle values, which might change the result as well.

Yes. movement tracks in DX are preferred. Hard PFX in PFX.

Great content, as always! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

23:40 Looks like I picked up the same keyboard you got there a few weeks ago. Curious what sort of macros you're using, if any. Cmd + Opt + V & Cmd + Opt + T on one key has been saving me so much time. Doing a basic balancing on dialog while editing.

Spectral Repair its free you dont need RX11 but its very basic (attenuate, gain, de click and de hum). One question how much time (weeks) do you have to make the dialogs of a movie of 90 min or a serie episode of 45-50 min.

I have a question How you deal with mic bleed in a 1 hour podcast, recorded with 3 mics ?

As someone just starting out in the industry and still learning (unfortunately without an real life mentor) your videos and live streams are so so valuable. I am doing both location sound and post-production. I also found that room tone is not very useful in post. When I read watch content about location sound it seems like people still promote the idea that post needs room tone for every shot. Is that maybe just outdated advice that doesn't die? Are there other "myths" that still exist in the location sound world? Maybe you could make a video/ stream about what you would like to see from location sound. For example: Sound Reports are they needed and what would you like to see there? Are ambience recordings on location a good thing for sfx editing (mono or stereo preferred?) How much effort should location sound put into recording sfx on set (like doors, wood squeaks, foot steps). How much effort should be put into fighting to turn off the AC or laying carpet to dampen foot steps, hold sound for an airplane. The answer of course is it depends and talk to the post team but I would like to hear you "roast" location sound some more 🙂

Great tutorial. Just what I need - deeper understanding. Best quote for me: "It's not what I wanna be known for!!!"

Hi Thomas! As always, thank you so much for your videos. They are so crucial. I have a request when you get a chance. I have a short I'm going to mix soon, and it has ALOT of car pass-bys I have to clean cause they recorded next to a highway. Any advice on how to clean/preserve the dialogue without a lengthy ADR session? And if ADR is a must any tips on what to listen for when eqing the recordings to the original source audio? THANK YOU

Thanks

does the FRT concept work with a multicam "grouped" workflow for TV? (If the editor cut with the line mix, can I use the FRT method to access the ISOs?)

Hi Thomas, working in dubbing, I mainly work on animation, but starting to get into live action. On some of these show we’re tracking 3 mic’s (two booms & a lav) and they’re asking for all mic’s edited with a super quick turn around. I’m used to editing one mic, cleaning it really well with RX, leveling, & checking sync. I basically don’t see how it’s possible to do all 3 mics in such a quick turnaround & was wondering if you’ve ever experienced this workflow, what you’d recommend, & how long you’d expect it to take. Really appreciate it, good to see someone teaching things the right way.

How do you move sound clips and stuff with a mouse like that?

It was really wonderful

first of all... I'm not a rapper

Hey Thomas, Great content, i was bummed i wasn't able to catch this one live. I love how much detail you go in to, and showcasing modules that are not as often talked about like Deconstruct. Never knew when to use that until now. I wanted to share a pro tip with Izotope that i use a lot, especially for podcasts, is changing the. Frequency view to Extended Log to clean up plosives. It lowers the low range frequency down to show below 20hz so it's very easy to see and quickly clean up those nasty plosives. Excited to see the next video! Thank you!

Found it.

Tom, do you have any recommendations on affordable boom poles? I've been looking into the K-Tek Avalon series because I like the idea of a built in XLR cable for convenience, but have seen some reviews say the cable may be noisy from being bumped around or get stuck when expanding/collapsing. If anyone has experience with these, please chime in.

Great information, well explained.

What a great series! Thank you for making this. I'm adding Post Audio SD and Mix in my tool bag. Just an idea on the source music around 6:00 mark. A tape emulation plug in like a J37 or a Kramer Tape might add that retro dust more.

HI Ho! I was wondering if I could kindly ask which video you did showcasing that audio strip AI tool? I was having a surf across your videos but couldn't see it.

Thanks again for the contents! It's great and refreshing everytime watching you sharing your insight of the editing/mixing!

Marvellous. Thanks Thomas! 😀

Thanks thomas, your videos have been super helpful 🙏🏻 Is there an alternative to Absentia DX for air tone generation??