May I draw your attention to a fantastic recording feature that's in Vegas, in case you all didn't already know this. I'm in the process of doing ADR on a couple of independent DV features. The setup I'm currently using to do this with my somewhat humble setup, is to position one of my monitors in front of me and the other in front of the door to my voice over booth. Then I clone the screen onto both monitors and preview video within Vegas. The part that is so unique to Vegas is its ability to "loop record" into one event many different takes. To lip-sync a section without stopping and starting after each recording take, I just create a time selection around the line or lines I want to ADR. Then I enable looping and record. I make sure to leave some preroll and postroll and even blow up the amplitude of the waveform so that the actor can use the waveform as an aid for timing - something you don't get with external monitor. This is something the actor and director LOVED. Now that I'm recording in loop mode the actor can do 10 takes in a row and after with think we've got it, I can toggle through each of the takes one by one for the director. I can then also very easily split a take and cycle through the takes in each of the new events to combine takes very easily. It's great and incredibly efficient.

Hope this helps any of you who might not have know about this kind of recording. Also, if you load the event into the trimmer, you can see all the takes in a row, as the takes are actually in one media file separated by regions. Very clever, SF! Also, in case yopu didn't know, if the actor begins to speak before the time selection (i.e. they appear to begin early) it's still recorded, just not visible until you trim out the edge of the take.

anyway, a big FYI.

cdm