ADR inside Vegas?

mudsmith wrote on 4/30/2010, 4:44 PM

This may be more appropriate in the video section, but does anyone out there have experience do ADR sessions directly in Vegas?

For those of you who are not working in picture, ADR is automatic dialogue replacement, or "looping", where actors watching picture replace/re-record the dialogue that was recorded on the set.

Although it is a film/video specific practice, many times editors will not know how to do this, so I am reaching out to the audio community on this one.

If anyone has done this completely inside Vegas, I would love to hear some tips.

Comments

Geoff_Wood wrote on 4/30/2010, 5:54 PM

Pretty basic functionality of Vegas - simply record the new audio segments on the same, or separate, tracks and tweak til your heart's content !

Or is does the 'Automatic' bit imply some automated way of matching up and deleting the original dialogue ?

geoff

pwppch wrote on 4/30/2010, 7:09 PM

Vegas is great for ADR.

Set up to record in a loop. For each pass on the loop you can record a new take. When you have enough takes, you can then comp them for the perfect match. You can also tweak by using small time stretches of events to make the dialog very tight.

Peter

mudsmith wrote on 4/30/2010, 7:10 PM

The "automatic" is just a holdover from the movie systems that inserted a beep a second or two before the needed replacement, etc. and controlled the looping and recording based on that.....or at least that is my understanding of the history of it.

It seems from your answer and one I got over in the video section that there is no mystery about how to put this together in Vegas.

Thanks