Having worked 30+ years in this business, this is by far the best video explaining dialog editing, I can't thank you enough for the effort you put into these instructional video's....great work Thomas

As a production sound mixer I have tried to explain to my clients what a dialog editor does. From now on I will send them this video.

speechless! stuff which no one shows you for years and years

I’ve worked in picture editorial for years and have never had a truly detailed understanding of HOW exactly the sound department goes about their job. This is precisely what I’ve been looking for. Thank you. Tremendously interesting and helpful video. Confirms much of what I thought I knew and also illuminates details of which I was ignorant. Some of which I think will help me turn over slightly improved tracks to sound. Thank you! Fantastic contribution to the community. Great, great series.

As a rookie, these videos really inspire me and demonstrate how much care goes into smallest of details that even a keen viewer/listener can have trouble noticing

I learned more in this 45 min tutorial, than 3 years of college. Thank you so much

Having to learn on the job, I’ve never found any proper dialog edit tutorial which such detail. This really helps to correct my workflow! Thanks a lot and can’t wait for further episodes.

Omg I am learning so much... I'm going to have to watch this multiple times to retain it all Thank you so much for this. I've been trying to figure out how to do all this by myself...

Timeline Drop Order > Left to Right is such a time-saver!! Thanks for making this video!

Thank you so much for your videos! I'm a studio engineer, but I recently took on a short low budget film production. Your videos have been a game changer, and have helped a lot with my session organization. Despite needing to consult Google for some video production terms, I love seeing your in-depth process instead of a quick tutorial that doesn't cover much. Thanks again!

Yep this is the real deal workflow. Been doing audio post for years and still learned some great tricks :))

This is great stuff, really appreciate that you're doing this series! One thing that occurred to me when you were creating room tone after using strip silence and dropping in the clips from the clip bin (which is VERY clever and I will definitely be stealing) is that you might be able to save some time cutting out the breaths etc. by using shuffle mode rather than manually deleting and dragging. Shuffle mode as a rule always makes me nervous but that's the beauty of the field recorder/work track in your template. Thanks again!

This might be the most genius video I've ever watched.

What is more amazing is the technology we have now, I remember when I started, I was amazed at the clapper or sticks, as, using that to sync, and when we got TC Nagra the world changed very different world

Found this really helpful. Learning by real-world examples is like gold. Thanks for taking the time to make videos for Pro Tools in Post as there's not much out there. Liked and subscribed!

Your killing it! The speed of the edits and the subtle liveliness added is next level. Gotta take notes of some of those short cuts

Wish I had this video a few years ago when i was figuring out stuff by myself cuz theres not much info on post-production techniques out there. Thanks for sharing.

I honestly think that your videos are the best ones, cause you explain all the details, through pratical demonstration,so thank you for these lessons

I'm from China, your video give me more help and enlighten. Thank you very much!

I'm watching this video for the 3rd time now over the last couple of months. I'm now getting better at pro tools and the principles if Post sound that I now finally can take in all the insane short cuts and workflow hacks. This video is so information dense. It's perfect. Really hope you keep uploading

Jealous that those recordings were nice and healthy. My current film is clip gained sometimes +20dB!!!

The Space Clips feature is a new/improved way to push all the clips together after using Extract. Just set the spacing to zero.

Awesome work, thats the very best video for post production i´ve every found, even better than in universary back than

Always really cool to see someone elses process

Great style of explanation. Have been using Protools for 15 years before finally switched to something else. For exactly the reason shown in this video. It feels like a very old PT version. Compared to the AI-editing tools in some other application (for post especially Nuendo 12) this feels like analog phone era.

OMG! That extract silence trick is sooooo awesome and helpful! How have I never used this! Thank you for doing these!

I can't tell you how much I value this video! Keep em coming!

Ooooooooo cool trick for room tone!

You're the best for doing this, great tutorial!

Awesome! Looking forward to the next episode. Thanks for sharing with us.

Hi Thomas, thank you for this. I don't get what's the shortcut to nudge move the fade for 1 frame. love the sound effects when you speed up ahahah

Great work! Really appreciate. Lots of super cool tricks here.

Thank you man! Exactly the content i need to see. I hope you continue making these episodes.

Wow thanks a lot Tom. Loving these tutorials

This series is so good. Thank you so much!

Please one Tutorial on Outdoor Location Scene .Thank you For the videos. Its really helps

I love this, i need see more tutorials you are amazing

Wow you know protools shortcuts very well, maybe you could make a video about most useful keyboard shortcuts for protools please?

How did people learn this before KZfaq? Was there an alternative to the standard school > intern > assistant route? Did all that industry knowledge ever get shared outside?

Very helpful video! Keep on the good work!

Awesome. Thank you.

This is a gem !

This is mind-blowing ♥️♥️♥️😍😍

I wonder if we'll see videos on sfx 🙊 BTW this video is 👌🏼

I can't help to notice that on minute 28:03 you've kept some footsteps in the dialogue track. Shoudn't they be on the PFX tracks? When do we know that?

Do you mark the scenes: scene 1, scene 2 etc? Or, is time code for editing sound sufficient? Just curious about editing something bigger. Or, do you do both? Very interesting video.

Very good video, thanks for sharing, hope to have more movie mixing tutorials, I want more learning. Thanks @Thomas Boykin

Subbed, you mentioned in the beginning of the video that you will touch on PFX routing in the end, but forgot about it, could you please tell us how you route your PTX track in mixing and delivery?

This is amazing!!!! Thank you

Can you crate a video on the matching field recordings menu. Never really used that feature or how to setup. Thanks

Bro has crazy good ears. How can you even catch the phase problem at 23:26? I can hear the difference after but I would've never caught it and now I want to go back to all of my films and check!

Thank you!

Hey man. Curious why you have a dedicated field recorder track. I usually make all my edit tracks field recorder tracks so I can just flip to other mics if needed in place. Wondering if there's a possible negative to doing it that way.

42:35 How do you do equal power fade simultaneously on two different clips?

Is there a shortcut to change crossfade and fades from equal gain to equal power?

Can You write down the shortcutts on this video😊

when you used auto-align - you put the boom in the work track and did it - however it's the lav that was fixed - did you select it- think I missed something... thank you

Hey, I've got a question regarding PFX. Is it usual to leave little sounds like footsteps and cloth rustle from production audio in DX tracks or are they usually moved to PFX? I've noticed that you leave them in DX, but have seen people move pretty much everything besides dialogue to PFX - including footstep and cloth rustle, if it's outside of the lines.

so I have this very deep question... please bare with me... its more than just one question, its an entire process dilemma which has bothering me for a long time and I never really know where to address this specific aspect. maybe you can share your thoughts on this. (you might cover this later on in the mixing stage, sorry if might sound crazy on what i'm writing)... to sum it up. i'm having some issues in understanding when to use the clip gain versus the track/bus volume. so, i followed the video, at the beginning you mentioned that your target is -27LUFS (cinema standard) at that moment during the session, the loudness meter is -21dB LUFS (considered hot). looking at the timeline, all fader levels are at unity, also all audio clips are at 0 unity. to simplify things, let's say we are hearing the original gain set by the recordist on set. since the dialogue is rounded now at -21dBLUFS, my instinct would have been to readjust the clip gain now and then, to lower some dB to obtain maybe -23dB, or why not, lower gain to reach -27dB LUFS in your preferred case. From this new set level (-27), processing would happen (eq/compression/saturation/reverb). Im confused in general, not about your video, but in regards to what people write online. Should we be working in this context at -21dB, do all of the processing (eq/compression/reverb/saturation) and only at the end adjust dialogue bus level to aim -27dB LUFS? i think i'm lacking the correct gain stage discipline, the overall vertical approach used in mixing, but i'm desperate to learn more about it. any feedback would be super helpful. love your videos. thank you

Hello Thomas thank you for your nice videos I had a question about M&E , you separate production sound from dialogue in order to feed the M & E , but How you feel the gap leave by the dialogues to match with the production sound track? Recreate the location air or BG ? Do you create it with air that match the location sound using undertone and Dialogue Match. Or using recordes silence for the location. And when do you proceed to this ? At what stage of the production. Thank you Louis

Shortcut to show frame bars in timeline?

HI, I just found your videos and am now binging all of them like crazy, simply excellent stuff, thanks!! I do have a question about PFX and DX tracks: if PFX tracks end up in the MnE mix, wouldn't it be necessary to fill with roomtone on those tracks? I mean, wouldn't they stand out in the MnE mix if the roomtone on those tracks comes in and out every now and then? I hope it's not confusing. All the best!

Nice!

Anyone knows of a book on where to start and stop scores, music, drones, etc? Thanks

This is insightful, though I think some of the abrupt cuts in the audio were intentional between scenes of the two rooms and the interplay of dialogue over the phone; and fading those audios removed a bit of the tension that those abrupt back and forth changes make. So, can you say that some audio should not be faded into between speakers?

What would be the best workflow for a series or an episode based sitcom? I have been looking for this, since am a newbie and am thrilled I got to find it, keep up the good work. I will keep on scavenging through your videos. I will love to get some tips from you 🙏 Thank you

Do dialog editors always use the room tone from the takes or they also use sample libraries of room tones?

Where can I download a scene like this with the audio so I can practice doing something like this and even make a demo reel?

I love the cleanliness of 6 A DX tracks and 6 B DX tracks... but what if you have many people in a scene -- so there's boom A through E or whatever, plus 4 or 5 lavs? How do you lay that out? Do you add more tracks? Or steal from the other 6?

Where do I go to learn how to do this? This is super cool.

Thanks for the tutorials! I would like to ask what do you do if the AAF files weren't named by shot? If there's a great amount of production sound like that, do you still organize them by shot sizes?

I heard in a podcast that you could totally make dialogue as clear as possible and get rid of all noise and room tone. Is this also right way to do it?

@Thomas Boykin What does A Dial , B Dial and C Dial mean on your tracks?

Do you know what boom mic was being used?

What codec did you use when importing the video?

You really should write a book ✌️😂

On the track layout segment, you mentioned that A_DX was chosen for all the wide shots. B, C for the respective actors; doesn't this go against what you prefer - where ideally you have person A on one track as much as possible? Also if A_DX was reserved for wideshots and you have two or more actors on that one track, would it not make it more difficult for you to mix later?

I'm wondering what you use for your main headphones when film mixing for these clinical cleanups?

any thoughts on dividing mics by character instead of dividing by angle ? I do this especially with the lavs

Where can I get started. I have a degree in audio engineering. Just need practice film

What is M and E?

"Sign my check." 🤣

Which software

any chance you would share your million dollar room tone air movement with us?

I want to learn mixing with you. Do you accept students?

Hi Thomas. Thank you very much for this video. How is your instagram?