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Optimizing the dialog in the first pass

Optimizing the dialog in the first pass - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Optimizing the dialog in the first pass

As you work through your first dialog pass, sometimes you'll find that some of the dialog regions come in way too quiet from the original OMF. You may need to use the AudioSuite Gain plug-in to get them in the same ballpark as the other regions. In this movie, I'm going to show you a special way to do this. You can maintain handles for later crossfading. So this region here is a little bit quieter than some of the other dialog regions. Let's take a listen. (Character 2: And that adds ten seats to the theater. And that adds ten seats.) Okay, so here's how we're going to do this. We're going to copy this region down to our Edit track first. Use the Grabber tool, F8, and I'm going to Ctrl+Option, which is Windows+Alt on a PC and drag this down to one of our Edit tracks. That way we held control so it didn't slide left to right and by holding Option, we copied it down. Next, what we're going to do is pull out some handles on this region. So I'm going to get the Trimmer tool and pull out a…

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